Summary

SafeSciMET is a new and unique pan-European network, which will develop and establish a comprehensive modular education and training programme in safety sciences for medicines. The network brings together eighteen top institutes for drug safety education and research and fifteen pharmaceutical industry leaders. The SafeSciMET courses are open to all scientists from industry, academia and regulatory agencies and will encompass the safety, ethical, regulatory and societal aspects of drug discovery and development.

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Achievements & News

Check out the IMI Education & Training projects’ video
Four of IMI’s Education & Training projects have put together a short video on their activities.###In the six-minute clip, the coordinators of the EMTRAIN, SafeSciMET, Eu2P, and PharmaTrain projects present their courses and the benefits they offer for students and course providers alike. The film also features a presentation by IMI Executive Director Michel Goldman.
(November 2012)

SafeSciMET courses – sign up now!
SafeSciMET, the IMI Education & Training program for Safety Scientists, has successfully completed its first cycle of courses in 2012, with participants giving very positive feedback. ###The project has now announced the start of the second course cycle, which runs from 2012 to 2014. Registration is already open for a number of courses, including Drug safety of stem cells and other novel therapeutics (26-30 November, Liverpool, UK). Topics covered in this course include the basic biology of stem cells and molecular therapies, drug safety aspects of novel therapies, the regulatory requirements for stem cells and novel therapies, and the application of stem cells in the safety assessment of conventional compounds. A full list of forthcoming courses can be found online.
- Download an overview of the courses planned up until August 2014.
(October 2012)

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SafeSciMET launches courses on clinical safety
IMI Education and Training project SafeSciMET launches three new courses in the area of clinical safety. The course ‘Clinical safety:pre-approval’ runs on 21-25 May in Basel, Switzerland;### ‘Clinical safety: post-approval’ will run on 11-15 June in Lyon, France; and ‘Stratification, pharmacogenetics and drug safety’ runs on 27-31 August in Stockholm, Sweden. Applications for the new courses are now open via the project website.
(February 2012)

SafeSciMET opens it's new 'safety programme
New safety programme on safety sciences' which includes courses on ‘safety pharmacology’; ‘non-clinical safety assessment: strategies, ethics and protocols’; ‘biomolecular analysis: from method development to clinic’; and ‘predictive cell culture'.
(December 2011)

The IMI Education & Training project SafeSciMET has opened registrations to its first course, 'Drug Discovery and Development'
This is the introductory course to the new European Masters degree for Advanced Safety Sciences for Medicines designed by SafeSciMET. The course takes place in November 2010 and consists of 5 days at the University of Copenhagen with lectures, presentations and discussions, followed by one week home assignment of case studies and course questions.### Registration is open on the SafeSciMET website . A brochure on the course is available here . All the forthcoming SafeSciMET courses are listed on the website , any of them also available one by one, for instance for continuing professional development.
(September 2010)
 

 

 

Participants

EFPIA

• F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland
• AstraZeneca AB, Södertälje, Sweden
• Laboratorios Almirall S.A., Barcelona, Spain
• Sanofi-Aventis Recherche & Developpement, Chilly Mazarin, France
• Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany
• Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim, Germany
• Eli Lilly and Company Limited, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
• Pfizer Limited, Sandwich, UK
• GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development LTD, Brentford, UK
• H. Lundbeck A/S, Valby, Denmark
• Merck KGAA, Darmstadt, Germany
• UCB Pharma SA, Brussels, Belgium
• Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
• Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark
• Orion Corporation, Espoo, Finland

Universities, Research Organisations, Public Bodies & Non-profit

• VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Universitat Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
• University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
• Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden
• European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
• Københavns Universitet, København K, Denmark
• Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands
• Top Institute Pharma, Leiden, Netherlands
• Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland
• Universite Henri Poincare Nancy 1, Nancy, France
• Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
• Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
• Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Universität Wien, Wien, Austria
• Université Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, France
• The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
• Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany