EMN Trial Office

Since the introduction of the new European Regulation 236/2014, some restrictions have applied to the traditional role of nonprofit foundations in the field of clinical trials, posing relevant limits regarding their possibility to conduct profit studies. In fact, at a European level, there is not such a distinction between profit and non-profit studies. This is the reason why Italian nonprofit organizations will have to come to terms with many constraints that may affect the way they can manage and conduct clinical trials. To deal with such problems, EMN Trial Office (former EMN Research Italy) has been created. This company was founded in 2017 in Turin, and it is the first social company (from Italian jurisdiction impresa sociale) working in clinical research on multiple myeloma in Italy. Because of its nature, this social company is entitled to conduct profit studies, overcoming the limitations of nonprofit foundations in Italy. Consequently, results deriving from profit clinical...