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2. Description

The Fundació Institut Català de Farmacologia is a WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Pharmacoepidemiology. Since 1983, it develops research in clinical pharmacology and pharmacoepidemiology. It was a founder of the Spanish System of Pharmacovigilancea nd it is the Regional Centre for Catalonia . Research activities are coupled with undergraduate teaching at the Autonomous University of Barcelona Medical School, training of specialists in clinical pharmacology, and continuous education of health professionals on therapeutics. The FICF gives institutional support to the Ethical Research Committee of Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, the Methods Support Unit for Clinical Research of the Institut de Recerca Vall d’Hebron, the Pharmacotherapeutics Committee of the Hospital Vall d’Hebron, the Pharmacotherapeutics Committee of the Institut Català de la Salut, and other institutional boards of the national and regional health authority.

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5. Therapeutic/disease areas of research in drug safety/risk-benefit performed in the past 5 years

6. Design of drug safety/risk-benefit studies published in the past 5 years

7. Experience in collecting data directly from individual patients/respondents

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9. Experience in secondary research and meta-analysis

10. Work with existing data resources in the past 3 years

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12. Experience in collaboration in a study team

13. Current involvement in research networks

14. Interest in research opportunities which are funded

15. Interest in contract research only if free to publish results

16. Selected publications of the last 5 calendar years