Last updated on: 07/08/2013
Name of organisation
1) Department/Research group
2) Organisation/affiliationVACCINE.GRID
Short Name in the inventoryVACCINE.GRID
Administrative Contact
Title Mrs
Last name Casagrande
First name Simone
Address line 1Spitalstrasse 33
Address line 2
Address line 3
CityBasel
Postcode
CountrySwitzerland
Phone number (incl. country code)41-61-7042945
Alternative phone number
Fax number (incl. country code)
Scientific Contact
Title Professor
Last name Sturkenboom
First name Miriam
Address line 1Spitalstrasse 33
Address line 2
Address line 3
CityBasel
Postcode
CountrySwitzerland
Phone number (incl. country code)41-61-7042945
Alternative phone number
Fax number (incl. country code)
2. Description
OUR VISION:
Timely and high quality scientific information on vaccine effects.
OUR MISSION:
To quantify vaccine effects based on state-of-the-art distributed methods, innovative technology, and large populations in a federated approach.
3. Category
Charity or non-profit organisation
4. Available resources
In houseVia Contacts/Network
Vaccinologists
Yes
No
Vaccine safety expertise
Yes
No
5. Therapeutic/disease areas of research in drug safety/risk-benefit performed in the past 5 years
Immunological products and vaccines
Infectious diseases
6. Design of drug safety/risk-benefit studies published in the past 5 years
Cohort Study
Case Control Study
Drug Utilisation
Interventional Clinical Trial
Meta-Analysis
7. Experience in collecting data directly from individual patients/respondents
None
8. Access to data collection resources
Capacity to conduct face-to-face interviews
Yes
In a clinic
Yes
In the community
Yes
Electronic data capture systems
Yes
System used:
Jerboa
Interactive voice response systems
No
Call centre
Yes
9. Experience in secondary research and meta-analysis
Yes
10. Work with existing data resources in the past 3 years
Name of data resourceNo. of studies
Hospital Discharge9
IPCI9
GPRD9
Emilia Romagna GPs drug prescription9
Danish Medical Registries9
11. Registries established by centre
None
12. Experience in collaboration in a study team
Principal Investigator
Collaborating Investigator
13. Current involvement in research networks
None
14. Interest in research opportunities which are funded
By pharmaceutical companies
By charities
By government
By research councils
By EU funding schemes
15. Interest in contract research only if free to publish results
Yes
16. Selected publications of the last 5 calendar years
ReferenceLink to web-publication
