The NS-PARK network offers scientific and methodological expertise and operational skills to support researchers or academic or industrial promoters at all stages of a research project.
What are our strenghs?
A scientific and methodological expertise:
- International opinion leaders
- A long experience of industrial partnerships
- A scientific dynamic with experts working groups on major themes: Genetics, Connected objects, Biomarkers, Imaging, Clinical trial methodology
The NS-PARK National Cohort:
- A prospective cohort
- Unique in Europe
- Common to all the centers of the network
- Gathering data from thousands of Parkinson patients
Staff trained and dedicated to the network :
- 3 full-time project managers dedicated to the network and 2 project managers dedicated to the NS-PARK cohort
- Key points of contact in each center: investigators and clinical research associates (CRA)
- A training program for its members: Good Clinical Practices (GCP), specific scales
High-performance technical resources and tools :
- Neuroimaging harmonized at the national level by CATI: 1.5T and 3T MRI, PET, SPECT
- Neurophysiology (evaluation platform for walking, pain, sleep, etc.)
- High-throughput genomic sequencing (e.g. SeqOIA platform)
- Biobanking: DNA, plasma, cells
- Neuropsychology: implementation of a common consensus battery for neuropsychological assessment
What services do we offer?
The NS-PARK network can provide assistance at all stages of a research project.
For more information or a detailed estimate for your project, please contact us.
Project design and set-up phase
- Scientific and methodological advice
- Support for the search for funding
- Drafting of the study documents
- Support for the structuring of the project
- Animation and coordination of actors
Faisability
- Unique contact point Sponsor/NS-PARK Centers
- Centralization and management of the feasibility survey
Implementation of the study
- Centralization and management of the feasibility study
- Drafting/proofreading and centralization of documents for regulatory submissions
- Support for the scheduling of preliminary site visits
- Centralized evaluation of investigation costs in agreement with the coordinating center
- Assistance of the sponsor to activate the signature of the contracts in each center
- Implementation of a recruitment strategy adapted to the objectives and constraints of the study
Recruitment and follow-up phase of the trial
- Planning, preparation and conduct of monthly telephone meetings with CRAs of NS-PARK centers
- Planning, preparation and conduct of quaterly face to face meetings with NS-PARK investigators
Valorization of projects
- Communication actions on the project
- Support for the publication of the project
