Lucia Monaco receives the EURORDIS Award
Published: February 22, 2017Dr Lucia Monaco, the Chief Scientific Officer at Fondazione Telethon and a member of RD-Connect, has received the EURORDIS Scientific Award 2017 for cutting edge scientific developments.
Rare Diseases Registries Workshop in Madrid
Published: February 13, 2017Rare Diseases Registries Workshop on 21st-22nd March 2017 in Madrid will bring together all the key stakeholders in the development of rare disease registries.
RD-Connect presentation at the IRDiRC 2017 conference in Paris
Published: February 10, 2017Download Hanns Lochmüller’s talk on overcoming bottlenecks in rare disease research through data sharing infrastructure presented at the conference of the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC).
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Rare Diseases Training Capacity & Needs Survey
Published: February 8, 2017A survey prepared by ELIXIR Slovenia within ELIXIR-EXCELERATE aims to collect training capacity and the needs of the Rare Disease Community. The following brief survey was based on the ELIXIR(…)
Registration for the Berlin joint project meeting is open!
Published: February 2, 2017Registration for the joint RD-Connect, NeurOmics and EURenOmics Annual meeting in Berlin is now open.
New RD-Connect Project manager
Published: January 26, 2017As of January 2017 Emma Heslop has left the role of RD-Connect project manager to move onto a new role within the team in Newcastle. Libby Wood is now in(…)
Update on the RD-Connect hackathons in 2016
Published: January 19, 2017In 2016, RD-Connect has organized seven highly specialised hackathons focusing on developments of the RD-Connect platform for data exchange and analysis.
RD-Connect four years on
Published: January 3, 2017RD-Connect, the global research and infrastructure resource for rare diseases, has just passed its four-year mark, and significant progress has been made during the past year.
Best Christmas wishes from RD-Connect!
Published: December 22, 2016As Christmas and the New Year are upon us, RD-Connect would like to wish all the partners and newsletter readers a happy and joyful Christmas break.
European Commission approves 23 European Reference Networks
Published: December 17, 2016On 15th December the Board of Member States of ERNs voted to approve all 23 ERN proposals submitted under the first wave (the 24th proposal, submitted under the 2nd call,(…)