The European Palliative Care Research Centre (PRC) was officially launced on October 15, 2009. The opening was given extensive publicity in Norwegian newspapers as well as in Italy.
Read more about the launching at The Medical News online here

PRC is based at NTNU's Faculty of Medicine and at St. Olavs Hospital/Trondheim University Hospital, and was established with recommendations and support from the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC). The Norwegian Cancer Society has awarded a major grant of 15 Million NOK (1.8 Million Euro) to help establish the new centre.

Additional support has been awarded by the Open Society Institute (USA), the Floriani Foundation (Italy) and by an unrestricted grant from Nycomed. The centre will coordinate groups and individual researchers across Europe along with researchers in the USA, Canada and Australia.

Associate Professor in Milan, Italy, Augusto Caraceni, comments on the PRC:
"It is an honour for me to be the Vice Chair of the new European Palliative Care Research Centre in Trondheim. I have been collaborating with the Pain and Palliation Research Group at the Faculty of Medicine, NTNU for almost a decade. The group in Trondheim is in the forefront within palliative care research in Europe and worldwide, with their capacity to plan and conduct translational research, from bench to bedside and their vision of an European research agenda across the national borders is internationally recognized. It is well acknowledged within the scientific field of palliative care that international collaboration is urgently needed in order to conduct sufficiently sized studies, as well as to evaluate the effect of new treatment strategies".

A description of how the centre will work, as well as a rough outline of the aims can be found at our homepage: www.ntnu.no/prc. The infrastructure of the PRC is now about to be established. A senior officer will be engaged in short time. This autumn, collaboration with specific centres is to be established. The development of the international PhD-program has started. Protocols and applications for funding for 3-5 planned research projects are about to be written.

The work within the PRC will be facilitated in close collaboration with the EAPC Research Network and with support from the EAPC. To move research within palliative care forward, your contribution is asked for.

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