Clinical Research Council for pediatric and adolescent oncology
By bringing together existing pediatric oncology clinical trial groups and national pediatric hemato-oncology societies, the SIOPE Clinical Research Council for pediatric and adolescent oncology (SIOPE CRC) represents the pediatric oncology clinical research community across Europe.
Established to facilitate good research practice exchange among international co-operative groups, this executive decision-making body expresses the unified voice by dealing with common burning issues in the field and by representing the point of view of National Pediatric Haemato-Oncology Societies (NaPHOS) and European Clinical Trial Groups (ECTGs) at the highest European political level.
Formerly known as “ECRC”, the SIOPE CRC was originally founded in 2011 within the ENCCA project with the aim to establish a 'European Virtual Institute' for clinical and translational research in childhood and adolescent cancers.
The 2015 composition of the SIOPE CRC
As announced during the SIOPE CRC Meeting during the ENCCA General Assembly (19th December 2015, Brussels, Belgium), our community decided to renew the structure of the SIOPE Clinical Research Council. Therefore, a Call for Membership Application was officially launched, asking representatives of each group/society to apply for the membership of the new SIOPE CRC. This renewed Council is now composed of representatives of the NaPHOS and ECTGs in Europe (1 representative per group/society), appointed by the Chairs and leaders of each group/society. The CRC membership process was finalized and the renewed Council today is composed of 49 prominent representatives of the pediatric hematology-oncology field in Europe.
SIOPE CRC Main Representatives
It was also decided that there won't be one Chair of the Council but there should be two “Main Representatives” (co-Chairs) per each of the two categories represented in the Council, namely NaPHOS and ECTGs (the formerly nominated “ECRC Steering Committee”, which was created in January 2013 has been discontinued as an outcome of the decisions taken on this occasion).
- SIOPE launched a call for nomination for the two co-leading “Main Representatives” among the new SIOPE CRC Membership. This call resulted in the successful nomination of seven distinguished candidates from our community.
- The new Council then elected two “Main Representatives” who will be in charge of jointly coordinating and leading the activities of the renewed Council. They would also become members of the SIOPE Board .
CRC “Main Representatives” are :
- Cormac Owens (Ireland) for the role of Main Representative of ECTGs
- Andishe Attarbaschi (Austria) for the role of Main Representative of NaPHOS
SIOPE CRC NEW TERMS OF REFERENCE |
Upcoming CRC Meeting:
- May 14, 2025, Budapest, Hungary (6th edition of the SIOPE Annual Meeting)
Past CRC Meetings:
- December 11, 2024, Virtual Meeting
- May 15, 2024, Milan, Italy (within the SIOP Europe Annual Meeting)
- December 20, 2023, Virtual Meeting
- May 10, 2023, Valencia, Spain (within the SIOP Europe Annual Meeting)
- September 29, 2022, Barcelona, Spain
- October 14, 2021, Virtual Meeting
- 2 July 2021, Virtual Meeting
- April 29, 2021, Virtual Meeting
- September 23, 2020, Virtual Meeting
- 25 October 2019, Lyon, France
- 23 May 2019, Prague, Czech Republic (within the SIOP Europe Annual Meeting)
- September 26, 2018, Brussels, Belgium (within ERN PaedCan General Assembly)
- 1 February 2018, Brussels, Belgium (within ERN PaedCan General Assembly )
- 29 June 2017, Brussels, Belgium (followed by SIOPE GA 2017 )
- 26 January 2017, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (on the occasion of the European Cancer Congress)
- July 1, 2016, Brussels, Belgium – Kick Off Meeting
- December 19, 2015, Brussels, Belgium (on the occasion of the final ENCCA General Assembly)
For further information on this Council, please contact the SIOP Europe office ( office@siope.eu ).