Regional coordinators Vinay Sundaram for North America, Sebastian Marciano for Latin America, Mohamed Rela for India, and Rachel Westbrook for UK presented an overview of recruitment progress up to date and shared their insights into overcoming major challenges regarding patient recruitment, ethical and budgetary issues.

Thierry Gustot presented the current status in European sites and the first results from the CHANCE study and Anna Bosch, General Manager of EF CLIF, explained the procedure for submitting ancillary study proposals and how we continue making efforts to strengthen communication among participating centers and collaborators to maximize the impact of the results that will derived from this study.

The CHANCE study is promoted by EF CLIF.