Op-ed: The EU needs a 28th Regime for life sciences
The op-ed co-authored by MEP Vytenis Andriukaitis, Maurizio Scarpa and Ruth Ladenstein was published in The Parliament Magazine.
The Op-ed is currently featured on the homepage of the Parliament Magazine, and will also appear in the next monthly print edition under the title: "The EU Needs a 28th Regime for Life Sciences."
The authors emphasise the importance of strengthening Europe's rare disease ecosystem by building on the strategic role of European Reference Networks (ERNs) as unique cross-border infrastructures for collaboration, research, and patient care. They highlight the need for a harmonised EU-wide "28th regime" to better integrate resources, boost investment, reduce regulatory complexity, and accelerate access to innovative therapies for patients across Europe.
“Today, 24 ERNs connect 1,606 centers across more than 350 hospitals. They are the only patient-centered, cross-border clinical networks of their kind globally. Yet they still lack the resources to expand their reach and train the next generation of specialists.”
Read the full article HERE.
By MEP Vytenis Andriukaitis (S&D, Lithuania) is a member of the European Parliament's Committee on Public Health and former European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety; Maurizio Scarpa is coordinator of the European Reference Network for Hereditary Metabolic Diseases and cofounder of the Brains for Brain Foundation; Ruth Ladenstein is coordinator of the European Reference Network on Paediatric Cancer and chair of ERN Coordinators' Group.