The editorial for the ERJ Open Research reporting on the PREPARE and GloPID-R meeting "Reaching out: a meeting to advance clinical research preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks" has now been published!  The meeting took place in September 2018, in Brussels.  Read the full editorial here

The MERMAIDS-ARI recruitment period has now ended. The dedication of the clinical network and combined efforts of the PREPARE partners have collaborated spectacularly by hitting a milestone of over 1500 patients! This makes it by far the largest ever study of the pathogenesis of Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI). MERMAIDS-ARI is looking forward to exciting results ov... read more

Press release - University of Antwerp, bioMérieux, and Wellcome Trust to coordinate VALUE-Dx, a European Public-Private Partnership to fight antimicrobial resistance through diagnostics Antwerp (Belgium), London (UK), Marcy l’Etoile (France) – April 1, 2019 - The University of Antwerp, bioMérieux and Wellcome Trust today announced the ... read more

The MERMAIDS-ARI study has achieved a recruitment milestone by reaching the primary care target of 500 patients. With 1386 patients recruited overall across primary and secondary care, and 9 ½ weeks of recruitment period remaining - the study team are confident that 1500 patients will be recruited in total. 

Brussels, Belgium – On January 17 2019, PREPARE and COMBACTE joined forces to organise a successful kick-off meeting that launched the ECRAID-Plan project in Brussels. ECRAID-Plan is funded by the EC H2020 programme and will develop a business plan over the next two years for ECRAID. ECRAID stands for European Clinical Research Alliance on Infectious Diseas... read more

Kicking off on January 17th 2019 with a high-level meeting in Brussels, PREPARE and COMBACTE will commence the development of the business plan for ECRAID, the European Clinical Research Alliance on Infectious Diseases. ECRAID envisages a European-wide sustainable clinical research organization for infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance that stems from both ... read more

Read our exciting report on the proceedings, discussions and key outcomes of the event Reaching out: a meeting to advance clinical research preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks that took place in September 20-21, in Brussels. A common goal united delegates and speakers: to make progress in preparedness to deliver clinical research during an ID outb... read more

The ALIC4E Trial: Antivirals for influenza Like Illness? An rCt of Clinical- and Cost-effectiveness in primary CarE is the first publicly-funded randomised controlled trial of its kind to assess the (cost-)effectiveness of antiviral treatment for influenza in primary care. At this final meeting we celebrated an incredible international achievement of having randomise... read more

Want to know why clinical research is important during an epidemic? Have a listen to the fabulous speakers who attended our event "Reaching out: a meeting to advance clinical research preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks" in Brussels. #Research4Epidemics from PREPARE Europe on Vimeo.

Exciting news from Workpackage 1, EARL study, as their paper 'Priority needs for conducting pandemic-relevant clinical research with children in Europe: A consensus study with pediatric clinican-researcher' has just been published in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal!  Have a read here for more information!