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Accelerating Clinical Trials in the EU

MSP Advisory Group members

The Multi-stakeholder platform Advisory Group (MSP AG) consists of representatives from key stakeholder groups:

  • patients/consumers organisations;
  • industry EU trade organisations;
  • healthcare professional organisations;
  • non-commercial European clinical data and translational research organisations and networks;
  • research funders.

The MSP AG also includes 2 ethics committee representatives. Ad hoc involvement of experts from other groups is also foreseen, allowing the participation of other international bodies, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) bodies and payers where relevant.

Regulatory co-chair: María Jesús Lamas, Director of Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Products

Stakeholder co-chair: Denis Lacombe, Chief Executive Officer, European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)

                                                                Permanent representative organisations                                                                                   

Stakeholder Group Member Organisation Representative(s)*
Patients/ Consumers Cancer Patients Europe

Francisco Rodriguez Lozano

Juan Ventura

Patients/ Consumers European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG)

Nikos Dedes

Daniela Rojas Castro

Patients/ Consumers European Patients' Forum (EPF)

Claudia Louati

Patients/ Consumers European Young Person's Advisory Groups Network (eYPAGnet)

Begonya Nafria Escalera

Segolene Gaillard

Patients/ Consumers Rare Diseases Europe (Eurordis)

François Houÿez

Russell George Winston Wheeler

Healthcare professionals European Academy of Neurology (EAN)

Radu Tanasescu

Philippe Ryvlin

Healthcare professionals European Haematology Association (EHA)

Tarec Christoffer El-Galaly

Lorenzo Brunetti

Healthcare professionals European Society of Oncology Pharmacy (ESOP)

Marko Skelin

Mirjam Crul

Healthcare professionals European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

Faiez Zannad

Tabassome Simon

Academia European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN)

Amélie Michon

Academia European infrastructure for translational medicine (EATRIS)

Rosan Vegter

Anton Ussi

Academia European Network of Excellence for Paediatric Research (TEDDY)

Donato Bonifazi

Mariagrazia Felisi

Academia European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)

Stéphanie Kromar

Stéphane Lejeune

Industry EU trades Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO)

Leona Fitzgerald

Zubin Thacker

Industry EU trades EuropaBio

Marén Ulrike Koban

Blanca Garcia-Ochoa

Industry EU trades European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs (EUCOPE)

Bertrand Fournier

Industry EU trades European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)

Lada Leyens

Martin O'Kane

Research funders Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking (IHI JU)

Nathalie Seigneuret

Hugh Laverty

Research funders Dutch Cancer Society (KWF)

Delphi Coppens

Anke Hövels

* Each organisation has a permanent and alternate representative.

                                                                            Ad hoc representative organisations                                                                

Stakeholder Group Member Organisation Representative
Patients/ Consumers EuropaUomo Ernst-Günther Carl
Patients/ Consumers Parkinson's Europe Amelia Hursey
Patients/ Consumers StopDuchenne Poland Foundation/Fundacja StopDuchenne Dariusz Żebrowski
Patients/ Consumers World Patients Alliance Jolanta Bilinska
Healthcare professionals Cancer Drug Development Forum (CDDF)  
Healthcare professionals Drug Development (Phase 1) Programme & Clinical Trial Center, A. Gemelli Hospital  
Healthcare professionals European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) Laura Evangelista 
Healthcare professionals European Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP-E) Pamela Kearns
Healthcare professionals French Federation for Cancer Control  (UNICANCER)  
Healthcare professionals International League Against Epilepsy  
Healthcare professionals KKS Network, KKSN/ KKS-Netzwerk e. V.  
Healthcare professionals Polish Society of Child Neurologist/ Medical University of Silesia in Katowice Justyna Paprocka
Healthcare professionals University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht) Mira Gerta Petra Zuidgeest
Academia CoLAB TRIALS Teresa Catarina Páscoa Madeira
Academia European Forum Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP) Hilde Vanaken
Academia European Cardiovascular Research Institute (ECRI)  
Academia Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO)  
Industry EU trades European CRO Federation (EUCROF) Martine Dehlinger-Kremer
Industry EU trades European Federation of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (EFSPI) Christoph Gerlinger
Industry EU trades European Industrial Pharmacists Group (EIPG) Rebecca Stanbrook
Industry EU trades Medtech & Pharma Platform (MPP) Fatima Bennai-Sanfourche
Industry EU trades Vaccines Europe Megan Heath