The Clinical Research Roadmap highlights
the strategic and operational changes needed to improve Ireland’s capacity to
undertake high quality, multi-centre clinical research. These changes are
needed to develop new medicines, diagnostics, therapeutics and medical devices
and to allow Ireland participate in European research initiatives.
The Roadmap looks at how we can create a
coordinated, networked clinical research system in Ireland. The Roadmap
was developed by the Irish Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ICRIN),
which is funded by the Health Research Board and the HSE. ICRIN was established
in 2006 by the five academic partners in Molecular Medicine Ireland (UCC, NUI
Galway, RCSI, TCD and UCD). ICRIN
is networking the resources of the partner institutions and their associated
hospitals to form a national clinical research infrastructure. It operates as a
business unit of Molecular Medicine Ireland (www.molecularmedicineireland.ie)
In launching the Roadmap, Mary Harney TD, Minister
for Health and Children says that the Government is committed to building
capacity for clinical research in Ireland and acknowledged the Roadmap
as an important contribution in this regard.
Dr Damian O’Connell, Chairman of Molecular Medicine
Ireland and Vice President of Pfizer Clinical R&D says, ‘The Government is
committed to making Ireland a leading country for the timing, access and
relevance of clinical trials. The Clinical
Research Roadmap
is an
important contribution, as to how, in practice, this national objective can be
achieved. A great deal of
investment in clinical research infrastructure has already been made in Dublin,
Galway and Cork. What we need to do now is move quickly to create a
sustainable, national system to support clinical research. I would like to
thank everyone who had had a role in developing the Roadmap.”
Pictured at the launch of Roadmap were L-R Dr Damien
O'Connell (Chair, MMI), Dr Ruth Barrington (CEO of MMI) and Mary
Harney TD, Minister for Health and Children.
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