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BLOG – Getting to the root of an alopecia areata EHDEN study-a-thon

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Sustainable healthcare in Europe requires a better use of health data. For multiple stakeholders, including pharmaceutical organisations, real world evidence generation that is transparent, scalable and reproducible is vitally important. There is also an increasing need to understand patient wellbeing, disease, treatments, outcomes, new therapeutics and devices, in order to support patients, clinicians and to … Read more

EHDEN welcomes Roche to its Consortium

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Brussels, Belgium, 28 March 2023: EHDEN (European Health Data & Evidence Network) is delighted to announce that Roche has become a partner of the EHDEN Consortium. They now join the 11 public partners, and 13 industry partners, adding their expertise, resources, and support in creating an ecosystem for working with real-world data across Europe. The private-public … Read more

BLOG – 2021: another remarkable year for EHDEN, but a tragic one for the world

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The EHDEN project Consortium, like everyone, is looking forward to a recuperative and hopefully safe break over the festive season in Europe, and wishes the same for all our colleagues and partners, too. It has been a hard year, against a backdrop of a continuing COVID-19 pandemic and now the rise of the Omicron SARS-COV-2 … Read more

BLOG – Success with use of real world data in medicines research: Joining the dots of the European ecosystem

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A recent survey in England indicated that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the public had learned more about how real world data (RWD) can be used both for monitoring public health and for research.  Words such as epidemiology and vaccine effectiveness now trip off the tongue and are no longer the preserve of scientists.   From society’s … Read more

Meet the EHDEN partners – Sulev Reisberg

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Sulev Reisberg University of Tartu Introduce yourself and the University of Tartu? The University of Tartu, founded in 1632, is the national university of Estonia, the only classical university in the country, and also the biggest and most prestigious one in Estonia. The Institute of Computer Science, where I am coming from, is one of … Read more

Meet the EHDEN partners – Antje Hottgenroth

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Antje Hottgenroth Lilly Introduce yourself and Lilly? Eli Lilly and Company is a global healthcare leader that unites caring with discovery to create medicines that make life better for people around the world. We were founded more than a century ago by a man committed to creating high-quality medicines that meet real needs, and today … Read more

Meet the EHDEN partners – Maxim Moinat

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Maxim Moinat Data Engineer The Hyve Introduce yourself and The Hyve? The Hyve is an SME aimed at improving life sciences by building on open source software. We are based in Utrecht, The Netherlands and have many collaborations across Europe and the US. I am one of the OHDSI specialists at The Hyve and work … Read more

Meet the EHDEN partners – David van Brunt

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David van Brunt Senior Research Fellow and Head, Division of Evidence and Analytics AbbVie Introduce yourself and AbbVie? AbbVie is a global, research and development-based biopharmaceutical company committed to developing innovative advanced therapies for some of the world’s most complex and critical conditions. The company’s Mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and a … Read more

Meet the EHDEN partners – Michael Arend

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Michael Arend VP, R&D IT Pharma Business Partner RWE, Digital Health, and External Innovation Bayer AG Introduce yourself and your company? I’m Michael Arend and I work in Bayer’s Research & Development IT team as business partner for the observational research functions at Bayer Pharmaceutical. My main assignments are on Real World Data & Evidence, … Read more

EHDEN At EFPIA’s Oncology Data Summit

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Under the banner: “Unleashing the potential of data to improve cancer care”, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) held an Oncology Data Summit on 18 June in Brussels, Belgium. A broad spectrum of more than 170 stakeholders were present to hear and participate in a dynamic range of presentations and panel discussions. … Read more