3 - Specific competencies and capacity to provide export advice
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Quality
Management |
Training and
Education |
Public
Involvement |
| Description | ||
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Name |
I-BFM-SG - International BFM Study Group |
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| Number of peer reviewed publications in the last 5 years | A complete data set of all publications directly produced or favoured by the network is not available. | |
| Number of competitive grants obtained in the last 5 years | Selected references in the period 2011-2016 are reported in appendix 1 (attached). The references were selected to highlight the network's contribution. The publications are the result of: 1. Clinical study reports 2. Committee activities 3. Biological and translational reserch projects born and promoted within the network | |
| Access to expert groups | Yes | The I-BFM is formally Board member of the SIOP (International Society of Pediatric Oncology)-Europe , funded the "Ponte-di Legno International ALL Consortium" to promote the research in rare subsets of ALL in children, has active cooperation with the "Children's Oncology Group"-USA. |
| Capacity to answer external scientific questions | Yes | The external contacts are maneged by the elected Chairman of the I-BFM-SG. |
| Site feasibility | Yes | |
| Participant recruitment | Yes | Each clinical trial is managed by a merged steering committees of the different National Study Groups involved in the study. The annual report of each study is done during the annual meeting. |
| Budget calculation for studies | The financial support of each study is not managed by the network, but through each National Study Group. |