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CCBIO Research School / Neuro-SysMed Research School

CCBIONEUR911: Clinical Trials course 2024

The completed program qualifies for a Good Clinical Practice (GCP) certificate and covers several aspects of clinical trials – from design planning to execution – with learning examples from cancer research and neurological research alike.

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Clinical trials are studies performed in humans aimed at evaluating one or more medical surgical or behavioral intervention(s), and trials are the primary method to determine whether a new treatment is safe and effective. Most often a clinical cancer trial compare the most effective known treatment for a specific type or stage of cancer with a new approach although other designs are used more and more. Today clinical trials for almost every type of cancer and the numbers are increasing. While many trials focus on late stage disease there are also trials for cancer prevention and early diagnosis, and prevention of recurrence and survivorship.

Line Bjørge (CCBIO) and Øivind Grytten Torkildsen (Neuro-SysMed) are academically responsible for the course CCBIONEUR911: Clinical Trials in Cancer and Neurological Diseases, a collaboration between CCBIO and Neuro-SysMed

When: January 17-19, 2024

Where: On-site, rooms will be announced. 

Topics in the course:

  • What is a clinical study?
  • Study design
  • The pharmaceutical company perspective
  • The patient's perspective
  • Ethics
  • GCP overiview and concepts
  • Practical running of a clinical trial
  • Formalities and regulations
  • Writing a protocol
  • Applications and funding
  • Contracts
  • Translational research protocols
  • Clinical trials as part of normal clinical operations
  • Success factors
  • Clinical trials in the future

Preliminary program: available here

Registration: Deadline for ECTS providing registration is February 1, 2024 (opens for registration December 2023). If you are already enrolled at the University of Bergen (UiB), you register through Studentweb. If you are not enrolled at the UiB and live in one of the Nordic countries, and need the ECTS, you register through Søknadsweb, where you simultaneously apply for UiB guest student status (also deadline Feb. 1). 

Available for non-ECTS participation: Under consideration. Link will then be available here.

Open to all, and no fee.

ECTS: approved for 2 ECTS.

Read more at the student pages.