Event Overview

Join the AIJA Healthcare and Life Sciences Commission and the IBA Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee for a joint webinar titled "Decentralised clinical trials: opportunities and challenges" on 13 March 2025, 12:30–14:00 GMT (13:30–15:00 CET). The sudden deployment of DCTs during the Covid-19 pandemic, based – in many jurisdictions – on exceptional and temporary resolutions, revealed the lack of a general regulatory framework able to guide the use of these new technologies. This has formed the basis for the development of regulations and guidelines on DCTs beyond the emergency context, with the aim of creating a regulatory framework that can promote the decentralisation of research activities. In this context, the webinar will focus on the regulation of DCTs and the relevant challenges and grey areas in jurisdictions worldwide. Discussion topics will include, amongst others, the collection of remote informed consent, the shipment and management of investigational drugs at patients’ home, the use of third-party service providers by sponsors and healthcare institutions, and the challenges of managing multi-jurisdictional trials with different rules. 

Introduction: 

  • Renata Fialho de Oliveira, Veirano Advogados, Brazil, Co-chair of IBA Healthcare & Life Sciences Law Committee 
  • Koen T'Syen, Van Bael & Bellis, Belgium, President of AIJA Healthcare and Life Sciences Commission

Opening Presentation:

  • David J. Peloquin, Ropes & Gray LLP, USA

Moderator:

  • Elisa Stefanini, Portolano Cavallo, Italy; Vice-President of AIJA Healthcare and Life Sciences Commission and Officer of IBA Healthcare & Life Sciences Law Committee

Panel:

  • Daniela Blum, Product Development Lead, Sail for Health, Brazil 
  • Filip Deforce, Founder and CEO, DICE-CRO, Belgium
  • Silvia Michelagnoli, Head of clinic research (Italy and South-East Europe), Sanofi-Aventis, Italy
  • Pamela Tenaerts, Chief Medical Officer, Medable Inc., USA

Please register HERE to attend the webinar. 

AIJA Commissions involved
  • Healthcare and Life Sciences

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