EQIPD Webinar 2023
In the tradition of the EQIPD Summer School the Guarantors of EQIPD are planning a webinar series from March to June in 2023. It will always be at 4pm CET/CEST and a link to register on the Zoom platform will follow soon.
Abstract
The EQIPD Webinar Series will provide a foundation for best practices in preclinical research and how the EQIPD quality system can be used to help ensure the key 3 Rs: rigor, robustness and reproducibility in generating, interpreting and publishing findings. Experienced speakers will highlight EQIPD’s role in different parts of the scientific ecosystem with a focus on best practices. Dr. Thomas Steckler and Prof. Malcolm Macleod will set the scene with a general introduction on the state of efforts to enhance research rigour, how the recently published EQIPD framework has changed the landscape and what remains to be achieved. Other topics include issues in performing systematic reviews and meta-analyses, exploratory versus confirmatory research, challenges and opportunities for achieving rigor in academia and biopharma, and a hitchhiker’s guide to the use and misuse of statistics.
The series starts on March 1st and will continue until summer every second week.
| Date | Name | Organization | Topic |
| 1. March | Prof. Malcolm Macleod / Thomas Steckler | University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK / Janssen, Beerse, Belgium | Evidence, origins and impact of lacking rigour in research |
| 15. March | Kim Wever | Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands | Systematic review and meta-analysis of animal studies |
| 29. March | René Bernard | QUEST Centre, Charité, Berlin, Germany | Exploratory versus confirmatory research |
| 12. April | Prof. Martin Michel | University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany | A hitchhiker’s guide to experimental design and statistics |
| 26. April | Jan Vollert | Imperial College, London, UK | The EQIPD framework for research rigour |
| 10. May | Julia Menon | preclinicaltrials.eu | Preregistered preclinical studies |
| 24. May | Magali Haas | Cohen Veterans Biosciences | Criteria for translational validity |
| 7. June | Anton Bespalov | PAASP GmbH | The EQIPD quality system and auditing |
| 21. June | Martien Kas / Piotr Popik | University of Groningen / IF-PAN | Use cases |
Evidence, origins and impact of lacking rigor in research
Malcolm Macleod and Thomas Steckler
The GoEQIPDwebinar series, discussing how to enhance the quality of preclinical data, starts on March 1 with “Evidence, origins, and impact of lacking rigor in research” ft. Dr. Thomas Steckler, @JanssenGlobal & Professor Malcolm Macleod, @EdinburghUni
Systematic review & meta-analysis in animal studies
Kim Wever
The GoEQIPD webinar on March 16, 2023 was presented by Kim Wever from Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen discussing how systematic reviews and meta-analysis can help in translating animal study results and how they contribute to increasing robustness and scientific rigor.
Exploratory versus confirmatory research
René Bernard
The GoEQIPDwebinar series, discussing how to enhance the quality of preclinical data, starts on March 1 with “Evidence, origins, and impact of lacking rigor in research” ft. Dr. Thomas Steckler, @JanssenGlobal & Professor Malcolm Macleod, @EdinburghUni
A hitchhiker’s guide to experimental design and statistics
Martin Michel
Statistics is one of the important tools for researchers to make sense of their data. However, it is often difficult to get an understanding of the techniques and their meaning for the interpretation of the data. There were several misconceptions reported and Martin gives in this entertaining webinar very good access to this difficult but important topic.
The EQIPD framework for research rigour
Jan Vollert
The EQIPD framework was one of the major outputs of the EQIPD consortium and published in Nature Methods. Jan is briefly describing the development of the framework and presenting the content.
Please find the article HERE.
Preregistered preclinical studies
Julia Menon
Preregistration is considered one of the most important measures to protect against bias. Julia gives an overview of several pitfalls in animal studies to provide the basis for a detailed explanation on the preregistration platform preclinicaltrials.eu.
Criteria for translational validity
Magali Haas
Highlighted the different types of validities that apply for preclinical animal models of CNS diseases.
Please find the article HERE.
The EQIPD Quality System and auditing
Anton Bespalov
The EQIPD Quality System (QS) is a novel quality system for preclinical research and beyond to improve research processes. This webinar gives an introduction to the EQIPD QS and answers the following questions: What is it about? Why is it important? How to implement it?
Use cases of the EQIPD quality system
Martien Kas / Piotr Popik
In this webinar Martien and Piotr present their take on the EQIPD quality system and how it was implemented in their research environment. They provide interesting use cases and examples on the implementation process as well as benefits of having such a system.