Position paper ANMCO: Stati Generali ANMCO 2024 – La nuova organizzazione della ricerca: la proposta di ANMCO

Since 2021, the Research Center of the Italian Association of Hospital Cardiologists (ANMCO)/Heart Care Foundation, which boasts a long tradition of research with significant impact on clinical practice, has implemented a training project to promote knowledge of the basic methodologies for clinical research and the creation of a network of young researchers currently active in numerous research studies coordinated by the same Study Center and illustrated during the ANMCO General States 2024. Among these, the EYESHOT-2 study, together with the first phase of the BRING-UP Prevention and BRING-UP3 Heart Failure studies, enrolled almost 13 000 patients with, for the last two, 97% completeness of data at the 6-month follow-up, which is expression of the high quality of observational research work. Furthermore, in collaboration with international scientific societies and research centers, the same Study Center coordinates the activities in Italy of several international multicenter studies including EuroHeart, COLT-HF, and AFFIRMO. The States General was also an opportunity to discuss the main challenges that clinical research must face in the near future, from new research methodologies, such as the use of machine learning and registry-based randomized clinical trials, to new lines of research, such as mechanistic and pathophysiological clinical studies and decentralized clinical trials for rare diseases.