New Best Practice Example for Personalised Medicine :

30 June 2020 – ICPerMed features best practice examples for the successful translation of personalised medicine research into an added value for the patient as well as examples for policy making and impact analysis on personalised medicine research. A new best practice example featuring 'NAGEN 1000', a Spanish regional pilot study to incorporate recent advances in cutting edge genomic research technology (Whole Genome Sequencing) into the real clinical practice, is now online. 
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Start of three new ICPerMed-related coordination and support actions :

03 June 2020 – Through its Framework Programme Horizon 2020, the European Union started funding three actions in support of ICPerMed in 2020. All three actions focus on different aspects of personalised medicine. 
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ICPerMed vice chair re-elected :

03 June 2020 – ICPerMed is glad to announce that Dr. Astrid Vicente from the Instituto Nacional de Saude Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA) in Portugal has been re-elected as vice chair of the Executive Committee. 
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ICPerMed Conference 'From Vision to Practice' – New Dates :

27 May 2020 – We would like to inform you that in view of the coronavirus situation (COVID-19), ICPerMed and the European Commission have taken the difficult decision to postpone the ICPerMed Conference 2020 'Personalised Medicine – From Vision to Practice' which was due to be held on October 15-16, 2020 in Paris. It will now take place from February 25-26, 2021 at the same venue. 
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Online Workshop – Exit Strategies for COVID-19 Lockdown :

14 May 2020 – The SAPHIRe project will host the online workshop 'Exit strategies for COVID-19 lockdown, what role do regions play' on 16 June 2020 to gain a better understanding of the different regional approaches to tackling these challenging times.  
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Virtual ICPerMed Executive Committee Meeting on 6 May 2020 :

On 6 May 2020, the ICPerMed Executive Committee met virtually to discuss and plan strategy and future activities of the consortium. 
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How Personalised Medicine will transform Healthcare by 2030 :

04 May 2020 – The ICPerMed Chairs Astrid M. Vicente, Wolfgang Ballensiefen and Jan-Ingvar Jönsson have published a commentary on the ICPerMed Vision Paper in the Journal of Translational Medicine. The article focuses on how personalised medicine will lead to the next generation of healthcare by 2030. 
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Report on Big Data, Electronic Health Record and Health Governance :

22 April 2020 – Regions4PerMed has published its first project report on Big Data, Electronic Health Record and Health Governance. 
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Twinnings in DigitalHealthEurope & Webinar :

20 March 2020 – The DigitalHealthEurope call for applications for twinning projects will be open until 4 May 2020. The call is available for local, regional and national health and care providers in Europe that wish to adopt innovative solutions which are available for transfer from another local, regional and national health and care provider in Europe. 
read more: Twinnings in DigitalHealthEurope & Webinar.