ID-CARE team joins PIPELINE colleagues in Palermo for first in-person general assembly

The first in-person General Assembly (GA) for the PIPELINE Project took place earlier this week in Palermo, Italy. Members of the ID-Care team, led by Professor Tacconelli, attended the two-day event to present progress and contributions to Task 1.4 (WP1) and Task 9.3 (WP9), and to discuss overall project updates. 

PIPELINE is an EU-funded Research & Innovation Action aiming to develop a dedicated pregnancy-infant preparedness platform for adaptive trials, to improve pandemic preparedness for these underserved populations. The ID-CARE team are involved in Objective 1 in WP1 - Preparedness platform implementation and WP2 - Preparedness platform sustainability and in Objective 5 in WP9 - Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication. 

The GA opened on Tuesday 5 May with three morning sessions focused on project management (WP11, WP12, WP13), the PIPELINE platform (WP1, WP2) and new study ideas (WP1, WP2). Within these sessions, Professor Tacconelli presented updates on Task 1.4 Cluster within the pandemic preparedness infrastructure in the EU and the Be Ready clinical study. 

ID-CARE Members Domenico Benvenuto, Evelina Tacconelli and Catherine Fleming

In the afternoon, the GA continued with a session dedicated to the PIPELINE RSV trial and its associated sub studies (WP6, WP7, WP8). This was followed by a workshop on the trial’s current status, country-level progress, key challenges and potential changes to standard of care. The day concluded with a networking event at Villa Chiaramonte Bordonaro.  

On Wednesday 6 May, the GA opened with a keynote talk by Tiziana Masini from the World Health Organization entitled “Paediatric Drug Optimization for RSV:  From Research and Development to Access”. This was followed by a presentation on PIPELINE network building, strengthening and sustainability (WP3, WP4). The final session was dedicated to dissemination, exploitation and communication (WP9, WP10) and to the Ethical Advisory Board recommendations. Within this session, Professor Tacconelli gave a presentation on Task 9.3 Mobilisation of the health research environment to recognise the importance of including pregnant women and their infants in clinical research, illustrating ID-CARE’s contribution to the dissemination activities of the PIPELINE project.  

Find out more about PIPELINE here: https://www.id-care.net/projects/pipeline

The PIPELINE project is funded by the European Union under project GA n° 101155852.