Our Goals & Challenges
Our goal is to establish a self-sustaining nephrology research network in the Netherlands to facilitate clinical trials and increase benefits for kidney patients.
- Facilitate clinical research:
- Establishment of a central portal for nephrology trials in NL
- Faster design and conduct of clinical trials by standard workflow and procedures
- Higher number of nephrology trials in NL
- Increase research participation:
- Organisation of national meetings with relevant stakeholders to inform on latest research findings, methods, and techniques
- Involvement of patients in the development and execution of the study
- Expansion to all hospitals/healthcare Institutions in NL
- Promote academic excellence:
- Development of higher standard clinical research in NL
- Publication of research findings in relevant scientific journals and presentation to peers in conferences/scientific events
Challenges in clinical research
Kidney research in The Netherlands is of excellent quality, ranking in the international top-10 in terms of citations (Scopus). At the same time, clinical research is accompanied by increasingly complex regulations. To maintain and strengthen our leading position, better coordination of logistic processes regarding clinical research is required. A recent EU benchmark and action plan (in Dutch) pointed out that networks of researchers are well suited to share knowledge and experience and promote cooperation and acceleration of clinical research. Other clinical research networks (e.g., HOVON, WCN) are excellent examples in other fields.
Contact NEFRO-NL
Nephrology Research Organization Netherlands (NEFRO-NL)
Would you like to know more about our foundation, or would you like to use our services? Please reach out to Sara at info@nefro-nl.nl and we will answer you as soon as possible.
Sara Roscioni, project manager