The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will host and broadcast a symposium on 19 and 20 February to mark the conclusion of the five-year Pharmacoepidemiological Research on Outcomes of Therapeutics by a European Consortium (PROTECT) [External link icon]  project.

PROTECT’s goal is to strengthen the monitoring of the benefit-risk of medicines marketed in Europe by developing innovative methods. It is a public-private partnership of 34 European partners coordinated by EMA and GlaxoSmithKline and funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking. Its partners include national medicines authorities, academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies.

The symposium will take place at the EMA offices in Canary Wharf, London and can be followed live at PROTECT symposium.

The symposium will bring together the results and key recommendations of PROTECT and will discuss how the findings can be applied to improve the monitoring and evaluation of the benefits and risks of medicines in Europe.

More than 230 participants from national medicines authorities, EMA committees, European Union (EU) Member States, academia, industry and patients’ associations are registered to attend the symposium.

To help translate research findings into practice, four pre-symposium training courses will take place on 18 February and will provide in-depth training on specific aspects of the research work performed as part of PROTECT.

For more details, go to: http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/news_and_events/news/2015/02/news_detail_002269.jsp&mid=WC0b01ac058004d5c1