ECRIN welcomes Greece, its newest Member
Greece has officially joined ECRIN-ERIC as a Member country. The hub of the Greek network, GreCRIN, will be hosted at the Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH) in Thessaloniki. The ECRIN Assembly of Members approved the membership of Greece, and will be joined by Kostas Stamatopoulos, Research Director of the Institute of Applied Biosciences at CERTH. ECRIN has worked with Greek scientific partners on various projects, and ECRIN’s Operations Director, Christine Kubiak, is extremely delighted to take this collaboration to the next level. Working together with the Greek scientific community, and building a structuring Greek network for multinational clinical research is in line with ECRIN’s mission and vision. With Greece joining ECRIN as a Member country, ECRIN now has a total of 13 Member and Observer states. ECRIN’s network now counts: Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia and Switzerland. The total reach of the ECRIN network has grown to over 361 million European citizens, with an average of 6.5 trials per country.