D - Description
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Quality
Management |
Training and
Education |
Public
Involvement |
| Description | |
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Name |
MICYRN - Maternal Infant Child and Youth Research Network |
| Year of foundation | Funded in 2006, getting non-for-profit incorporated and charitable status in 2011 |
| Preterm and/or term newborn | Yes |
| Infants from 1 month to less than 24 months of age | Yes |
| Children from 2 years to less than 12 years of age | Yes |
| Adolescents from 12 years to less than 18 years | Yes |
| Paediatric age ranges of study participants covered by the network | Pregnant people, neonates, children and young adults (up to 25 years) |
| Multispeciality? Specify | MICYRN is a network of perinatal and pediatric health research organizations or institutes. MICYRN is affiliated with (and supports) more than 25 practice based research networks. These networks are population focused (examples: neonatology, Pediatric emergency, pediatric inpatients or speciality focused (immunology, rheumatology, etc). In 2024, MICYRN was awarded a CIHR infrastructure grant to create a pediatric rare disease clinical trial and treatment network (RareKids-CAN, https://www.rarekidscan.com/) |
| Speciality/disease specific? Specify | Not applicable |
| Conditions covered? Specify | no restriction |
| Procedure/Intervention specific? Specify | no |
| Number of collaborating countries | 1 |
| List of collaborating countries | |
| Number of collaborating centres | 21 |
| List of collaborating centres | Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute Bloorview Research Institute Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec — Université Laval Children’s Health Research Institute Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute CHU Sainte-Justine IWK Health Centre Laurentian University Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute McMaster University, Department of Pediatrics Memorial University Queen’s University, Department of Pediatrics Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre Sick Kids Research Institute Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Université de Sherbrooke University of Saskatchewan Women and Children’s Health Research Institute Women's Health Research Institute |
| Type of activity/studies | |
| Clinical Studies | Yes |
| Experimental research | No |
| Other activity | MICYRN supports training programs and advocates for child health research and policy changes at national level. Since 2024, MICYRN organizes the national and annual Perinatal and Child Health Research Meeting. |