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Current projects

1. Essential Medicines for Children with Cancer

2. The SIOPE Early Career CTG Involvement (ECCTGI) Mentorship Programme 

3. The Education Project: the Art of Sharing Knowledge

4. The PCDC Data Commons Project

 

1. Essential Medicines for Children with Cancer

Coordinating on behalf of Young SIOPE: Eva Brack (previous Steering Committee member) and Maria Otth

In collaboration with the Essential Medicines Steering Committee and the SIOPE European Clinical Trial Groups​

The aims of the SIOPE Essential Medicines Project are:

1) to perform a systematic evaluation of currently used anticancer medicines in the European paediatric oncology treatment protocols resulting in a list of essential anticancer drugs.

 2) to propose to the WHO to add essential medicines from our systematic evaluation.

Find out more on the Project Webpage
 

2. The SIOPE Early Career CTG Involvement (ECCTGI) Mentorship Programme

Coordinating on behalf of Young SIOPE: Erika Pace and Nicolas Herold

Involved Young SIOPE Members: Daniela Di Carlo, Emma Seaford

The setup of the Early Career Involvement – Mentorship programme is currently under revision.

We strongly believe that a mentorship programme, consisting of individual mentee-mentor-couples, can help mentees in developing their career especially in the difficult early stages. It can help mentors as well to interact across generations to improve international collaboration. To be sustainable, each pairing between mentees and mentors will last a minimum of three years.

The aim of the project

To improve the involvement of junior members in the field of paediatric oncology and to facilitate their professional career development by pairing them with a senior member in a mentor-mentee relationship for three years.

The application process with be conducted in the REDCap® online system.

The link with further information will be provided soon.

 

3. The Education Project: the Art of Sharing Knowledge

Coordinating on behalf of Young SIOPE: Malgorzata Krawczyk

Involved Young SIOPE Members: Teresa de Rojas and Roelof van Ewijk

1. Educational webinars

These educational webinars are organized by Young SIOPE and take place twice a year. The webinars are free of charge and open to anyone who is interested. The topics of these webinars should cover the current needs of the Young SIOPE community. Therefore, we ask all members to submit topics they are interested in. Active participation in the preparation of these webinars is also very welcome.

2. Young SIOPE - ERN-PaedCan most challenging cases

The ERN PaedCan and Young SIOPE Interactive Webinar Series on Most Challenging cases in Paediatric Oncology has been a huge success so far, and therefore, we are pleased to announce that we will continue with this initiative in 2022.

The webinars are free of charge and open to anyone who is interested. The ERN PaedCan management team is working on the CME accreditation of the series.

Please register your participation here. 

Active members:

3. Educational sessions at the yearly SIOP Europe meeting

Yearly, at the SIOP Europe conference, we organize collaborative and educational meetings with European Clinical Trial Groups, Survivor and Parent Organizations and other groups with common interesting topics. Next to that, we organize an official meeting with the Young SIOPE members to update on the progress of the Young SIOPE group and to discuss developments. To improve collaboration, get to know new Young SIOPE members for future collaboration, we organise a social event during the SIOPE annual meeting.

4. SIOP Europe Paediatric Oncology Course

Andishe Attarbashi, board member of SIOPE, and Reineke Schoot (former chair of Young SIOPE) are the initiators of the SIOPE course in paediatric haemato-oncology. The SIOP Europe Course in Paediatric Oncology is a unique 3-year long education and mentoring programme for fellows in paediatric haematology and oncology and junior faculty at academic medical centres across Europe and, exceptionally, non-European countries. It aims to support young and promising paediatric oncologists in the development of their careers.

The Course will take place annually and will consist of 3 modules, each lasting 4 days. Participants will attend one module per year and will receive CME accreditation per module and a SIOPE certificate after having completed all modules and passed a final exam.

Participants for Modules 1-3 (2022-2024) were already confirmed following a rigorous selection procedure. The application process for the next Modules (2025-2027) will open at the end of 2023.

For updates: see siope.eu/course

4. The PCDC Data Commons Project

Coordinating on behalf of Young SIOPE: Reineke Schoot and Roelof van Ewijk

Involved Young SIOPE members: To be involved

The PCDC brings together clinical data from institutions around the world. Headquartered at the University of Chicago, the PCDC works with international leaders in paediatric cancers and the United States’ National Cancer Institute to develop and apply uniform clinical data standards that facilitate the collection, combination, and analysis of clinical paediatric cancer data. By harmonizing existing data and leading international efforts to standardize clinical data collection, the PCDC is making it possible to study larger sets of clinical paediatric cancer data and to connect these data with other types of data including genomic, imaging, and tissue availability data.

The aim of the project is to reimagine the clinical data life cycle creating new opportunities to accelerate paediatric cancer research and work toward cures.

Progress

On June 3 Young SIOPE members joined  the PCDC data commons webinar. Further steps towards active involvement of our Young SIOPE members are currently discussed. We aim to update you on short notice. If you are willing to be actively involved in this project please let us know.