How Personalised Medicine will transform Healthcare by 2030
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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.
read more: How Personalised Medicine will transform Healthcare by 2030.
ICPerMed Conference 'From Vision to Practice' – Registration open
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23 March 2020 – The registration for the second conference of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) 'Personalised Medicine – From Vision to Practice' is now open. The conference will take place in Paris, France, at La Maison de la Chimie on October 15-16, 2020, and will demonstrate how personalised medicine will lead to the next generation of healthcare by 2030.
read more: ICPerMed Conference 'From Vision to Practice' – Registration open.
Twinnings in DigitalHealthEurope & Online Seminar
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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 & Online Seminar.
Survey on the Future of Personalised Medicine
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13 March 2020 – In order to give input to the discussion around the ICPerMed Vision Paper 2030, ICPerMed has conducted a web-based survey with experts on personalised medicine from all over Europe and beyond. An article on the methodology behind and the results and conclusions of this survey was now published in the Personalised Medicine Journal.
read more: Survey on the Future of Personalised Medicine.
New Best Practice Example for Personalised Medicine
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07 February 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 pharmacogenetic recommendations for personalised medicine is now online. More will follow in due time.
read more: New Best Practice Example for Personalised Medicine.
Calls and Events of the EJP Rare Diseases
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30 January 2020 – The European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) published several calls for proposals and two announcements for networking and training events on different topics in the area of rare diseases.
read more: Calls and Events of the EJP Rare Diseases.
RE (ACT) Congress & IRDiRC Conference on Rare Diseases
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30 January 2020 – The The RE(ACT) Congress (International Congress of Research on Rare and Orphan Diseases) and conference of IRDiRC (International Rare Diseases Research Consortium) will take place on 11-14 March 2020 in Berlin.
read more: RE (ACT) Congress & IRDiRC Conference on Rare Diseases.
Life-On-Chip Conference on Personalised Medicine
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15 January 2020 – The Life-On-Chip Conference "Enabling personalized medicine by cross-over innovation" will take place on 20 and 21 February in Leuven, Belgium. The ambition of the conference is to bring together international players and to help and stimulate them to do business and to set-up new partnerships for cooperative R&D projects.
read more: Life-On-Chip Conference on Personalised Medicine.
SAPHIRe Workshop: Regional Health Data Providers and Users
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15 January 2020 – The third SAPHIRe workshop will discuss the role of regional actors and pursue important questions regarding the collection and use of health data. The workshop will take place on 22 and 23 April 2020 in Leuven, Belgium.
read more: SAPHIRe Workshop: Regional Health Data Providers and Users.
Statement concerning European Partnership
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17 December 2019 – ICPerMed and ERA PerMed published the joint statement "Towards the Implementation of Personalised Medicine in Europe - The Advantage of a European Partnership".
read more: Statement concerning European Partnership.
Third ERA PerMed Call for Proposals now open
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17 December 2019 – The ERA-NET ERA PerMed has launched the third Joint Transnational Call for transnational research proposals in the field of Personalised Medicine. With this call ERA PerMed wants to encourage and enable interdisciplinary collaborations towards the implementation of PM, by combining pre-clinical and/or clinical research with computational components and research on relevant ethical, legal and social aspects (ELSI) and/or research on the optimisation of the health care systems.
read more: Third ERA PerMed Call for Proposals now open.
SAPHIRe launched online Observatory
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11 December 2019 – The ICPerMed-related coordination and support action SAPHIRe launched a new online database for policymakers, funders and other key stakeholders in the field of Personalised Medicine.
read more: SAPHIRe launched online Observatory.
ICPerMed State of the Art Report 2018
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14 November 2019 – The ICPerMed State of the Art Report 2018 has now been published. The report resumes ICPerMed activities performed in the second year since the establishment of the consortium: November 2017 to October 2018.
read more: ICPerMed State of the Art Report 2018.
ICPerMed Workshop 2019
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12 November 2019 – The second workshop 'Personalised Medicine for All Citizens and Patients within Sustainable Implementation' of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) assembled around 150 experts from 31 countries in Madrid, Spain.
read more: ICPerMed Workshop 2019.
Call Announcement: ICPerMed Recognition 2020
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06 November 2019 – The International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) has published the announcement for their third 'Best Practice in Personalised Medicine' Recognition 2020 today. The objective of this recognition is to honour, encourage, promote and disseminate outstanding best practice examples in personalised medicine.
read more: Call Announcement: ICPerMed Recognition 2020.
Pre-announcement: ERA PerMed Call 2020
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5 November 2019 – ERA PerMed will launch the third Joint Transnational Call for Proposals to support translational research projects in the field of Personalised Medicine in December 2019.
read more: Pre-announcement: ERA PerMed Call 2020.
Pre-announcement: ICPerMed Recognition 2020
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7 October 2019 – The International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) has published the pre-announcement for their third 'Best Practice in Personalised Medicine' Recognition 2020 today. The objective of this recognition is to honour, encourage, promote and disseminate outstanding best practice examples in personalised medicine.
read more: Pre-announcement: ICPerMed Recognition 2020.
ICPerMed Vision Paper
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25 September 2019 – ICPerMed published a "Vision Paper" on how the use of personalised medicine approaches will promote "next-generation" medicine in 2030. The vision entails that medicine needs to become more firmly centred on the individual’s personal characteristics and at the same time be more effective and have an economic value. Next-generation medicine should also provide equitable access for all citizens to the best possible healthcare in the future.
read more: ICPerMed Vision Paper.
Workshop on Rare disease biological sample data in biobanks
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9 September 2019 – On 29-30 October 2019, a training workshop on “Organizing and maximizing rare disease biological sample data in biobanks” will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania. This workshop is a part of a series of capacity building programs put forth by the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD).
read more: Workshop on Rare disease biological sample data in biobanks.
ICPerMed Executive Committee Meeting in Tallinn
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19 June 2019 – In June, the ICPerMed Executive Committee met in Tallinn, Estonia to discuss and plan strategy and future activities of the consortium. The meeting was hosted by the Estonian partner, the Ministry of Social Affairs.
read more: ICPerMed Executive Committee Meeting in Tallinn.
ICPerMed Vice-Chair re-elected
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2 May 2019 – ICPerMed is glad to announce that Wolfgang Ballensiefen from DLR Project Management Agency in Germany has been re-elected as Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee.
read more: ICPerMed Vice-Chair re-elected.
First best practice example now online on ICPerMed website
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26 March 2019 – ICPerMed will feature 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 first best practice example featuring the Genomic Medicine Sweden initiative is now online. More will follow in due time.
read more: First best practice example now online on ICPerMed website.
ICPerMed Workshop 2019
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15 February 2019 – The Second ICPerMed Workshop 2019 "Citizens, patients and implementation" will take place on 5-6 November 2019 in Madrid, Spain.
read more: ICPerMed Workshop 2019.
ICPerMed Recognition 2019 – deadline postponed
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21 January 2019 – It is still possible to submit proposals for the 'Best Practice in Personalised Medicine' Recognition 2019. The deadline for submission was postponed till 4 February 2019.
read more: ICPerMed Recognition 2019 – deadline postponed.
Second ERA PerMed Call for Proposals now open
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9 January 2019 – The ERA-NET ERA PerMed has launched the second Joint Transnational Call for research proposals to support transnational research projects in the field of Personalised Medicine (PM) and to encourage and enable interdisciplinary collaborations towards implementation of PM, in combining pre-clinical and/or clinical research with computational components and research on relevant ethical, legal and social aspects and/or research on the optimisation of health care systems.
read more: Second ERA PerMed Call for Proposals now open.
ICPerMed Conference: Videos and presentations online
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14 December 2018 – All video recordings and presentations from the ICPerMed Conference 2018 'Personalised Medicine in Action' are available online now. The Conference assembled about 300 experts from 32 countries worldwide. Additionaly, over 500 viewers followed the online livestream.
read more: ICPerMed Conference: Videos and presentations online.
ICPerMed Recognition 2019 application open
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23 November 2018 – The International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) has published the announcement of their "Best Practice in Personalised Medicine" Recognition 2019. The Recognition aims to recognise, encourage, promote and disseminate outstanding examples of best practices in personalised medicine.
read more: ICPerMed Recognition 2019 application open.
ICPerMed Conference shows Progression of PM
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21 November 2018 – The first conference ‘Personalised Medicine in Action’ of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) assembled around 300 experts from 32 countries in Berlin, Germany. Around 500 viewers followed the online livestream of the conference. The conference took place from 20 to 21 November and presented best practice examples for successful implementations of personalised medicine approaches in Europe and beyond.
read more: ICPerMed Conference shows Progression of PM.
Pre-announcement: ERA PerMed Call 2019
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19 November 2018 – ERA PerMed will launch the second Joint Transnational Call for Proposals to support translational research projects in the field of Personalised Medicine in January 2019.
read more: Pre-announcement: ERA PerMed Call 2019.
HNN 2.0 Online Seminar on ICPerMed and related projects
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12 November 2018 – The Health NCP Net 2.0 is organizing an online seminar on November 27 on the history, aims and activities of ICPerMed as well as related EU projects (such as ERA-PerMed, and Coordination and Support Actions under the umbrella of ICPerMed).
read more: HNN 2.0 Online Seminar on ICPerMed and related projects.
ERACoSysMed Call 2019
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9 November 2018 – The ERACoSysMed consortium has published a pre-announcement of the ERACoSysMed Joint Transnational Call for Proposals 2019. The aim of the call is to fund research projects that validate existing predictive computational models using biomedical data to expand the knowledge about human diseases and their treatment. The call is scheduled to be launched on February 1 2019.
read more: ERACoSysMed Call 2019.
ICPerMed Conference – Last Chance for Registration
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5 November 2018 – There are only few seats left for the first conference of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed). Registration is still possible, but will close on November 9. The conference focuses on best practice examples for successful implementation of personalised medicine approaches and will take place in Berlin, Germany, on November 20-21. A live stream of the conference will be available on the ICPerMed website.
read more: ICPerMed Conference – Last Chance for Registration.
ICPerMed 'Best Practice in Personalised Medicine' Recognition 2019
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31 October 2018 – The International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) has published the pre-announcement for their second 'Best Practice in Personalised Medicine' Recognition 2019 today. The objective of this recognition is to honour, encourage, promote and disseminate outstanding best practice examples in personalised medicine.
read more: ICPerMed 'Best Practice in Personalised Medicine' Recognition 2019.
ICPerMed Conference – Final Programme available
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5 September 2018 – The final programme of the first conference 'Personalised Medicine in Action' of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) is now available. The conference focuses on best practice examples for successful implementation of personalised medicine approaches and will take place in Berlin, Germany, on November 20-21. Registration for the conference is still possible, but spaces are limited.
read more: ICPerMed Conference – Final Programme available.
EASYM Conference: Big Data – Transition to Practice
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29 August 2018 – The European Association of Systems Medicine (EASYM) is holding their 2018 Conference ‘Big Data – Transition to Practice’ on 7th to 9th November 2018 in Utrecht, Netherlands. The conference is designed to initiate and promote interactions between researchers and clinicians who are interested in applying systems level approaches to address medical problems.
read more: EASYM Conference: Big Data – Transition to Practice.
ICPerMed Mapping Database & State of the Art Report 2017
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19 June 2018 – The International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) launched the ICPerMed mapping database on funding for research in personalised medicine, and published its first “State of the Art Report 2017”.
read more: ICPerMed Mapping Database & State of the Art Report 2017.
ICPerMed Executive Committee Meeting in Vienna
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18 June 2018 – In April 2018, the ICPerMed Executive Committee met in Vienna, Austria to discuss and plan strategy and future activities of the consortium. The meeting was hosted by the Austrian partners, BMBWF, BMASGK and MedUniWien.
read more: ICPerMed Executive Committee Meeting in Vienna.
ICPerMed Interview in the ERA-LEARN Newsletter
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18 June 2018 – The latest newsletter of the EU-funded ERA-LEARN consortium features an interview with Ulrike Bußhoff of the ICPerMed Secretariat aswell as an analysis on the public-pubic and public-private partnership landscape related to health research. The newsletter and the analysis are both available on the ERA-LEARN website.
read more: ICPerMed Interview in the ERA-LEARN Newsletter.
ICPerMed Conference – Registration open
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7 June 2018 – The registration of the first conference 'Personalised Medicine in Action' of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) is now open. The conference will take place in Berlin, Germany, on November 20-21 and will focus on best practice examples for successful implementation of personalised medicine approaches. The preliminary programme is also available now.
read more: ICPerMed Conference – Registration open.
Statement concerning the 1 Million Genomes Declaration
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18 May 2018 – On 10 April 2018 13 Member States signed a declaration, initiated by the European Commission, to establish access to 1 Million Genomes in the EU by 2022. ICPerMed has followed with interest the process of developing the declaration. Recognising the great potential of personalised medicine to improve the prevention and diagnosis of disease and the treatment of patients, ICPerMed aims to coordinate and foster research to develop and evaluate personalised medicine approaches.
read more: Statement concerning the 1 Million Genomes Declaration.
New ICPerMed Vice-Chair
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18 May 2018 – ICPerMed is glad to announce that Astrid Vicente from the National Health Institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA) in Portugal has been elected Vice-Chair of the ICPerMed Executive Committee.
read more: New ICPerMed Vice-Chair.
ICPerMed Award 2018 – Awardees chosen
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15 May 2018 – The International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) has published the results of the first ICPerMed "Best Practice in Personalised Medicine" Award 2018. The three first awardees are invited to the ICPerMed Conference 2018, which takes place on 20-21 November in Berlin, and will be given the opportunity to present their results during a plenary session to stakeholders interested in the area of personalised medicine.
read more: ICPerMed Award 2018 – Awardees chosen.
Health and Care in the Digital Single Market
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25 April 2018 – The European Commission is putting forward a set of measures to boost the free flow of non-personal healthcare data in the Digital Single Market. Personalised medicine is one of three priorities of the initiative.
read more: Health and Care in the Digital Single Market.
Nordic Call on Personalised Medicine
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5 March 2018 – Five Nordic funding agencies are launching a call for proposals with the aim of funding Nordic projects that contribute to implementation of personalised medicine in health care. The call focuses on use of data for personalised medicine, clinical/regulatory as well as health economics perspectives and builds on strengths and synergies in the Nordic countries.
read more: Nordic Call on Personalised Medicine.
First 'ERA PerMed' Call for Proposals now open!
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9 February 2018 – The ERA-NET ERA PerMed (31 funding organisations) has launched its first and cofunded Joint Call for Proposals to support transnational research projects in Personalised Medicine and to encourage and enable interdisciplinarity, in combining pre-clinical and/or clinical research with bio-informatics components.
read more: First 'ERA PerMed' Call for Proposals now open!.
ICPerMed "Best Practice in Personalised Medicine" Award
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19 January 2018 – The International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) announced today the publication of their first "Best Practice in Personalised Medicine" Award 2018. The objective of this award is to encourage and disseminate best practice examples in personalised medicine.
read more: ICPerMed "Best Practice in Personalised Medicine" Award.
Pre-announcement of ERA PerMed JTC2018
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ERA PerMed will launch in February 2018 the first Joint Transnational Call for Proposals to support translational research projects in the field of Personalised Medicine and to encourage and enable interdisciplinarity, in combining pre-clinical and/or clinical research with bio-informatics components.
read more: Pre-announcement of ERA PerMed JTC2018 .
ICPerMed Workshop Report published
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14 December 2017 – The International Consortium for Personalised Medicine, ICPerMed, announced today the publication of their first workshop report. The workshop entitled “Innovative Concepts on Data Generation and Use for Personalised Medicine Research” had taken place on June 26-27th in Milan (Italy).
read more: ICPerMed Workshop Report published.
Pre-announcement of ICPerMed Awards
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In December, ICPerMed will launch the ICPerMed Award. The objective of this award is to encourage and disseminate best practice examples in personalised medicine research (PM).
read more: Pre-announcement of ICPerMed Awards.
Video Interviews with ICPerMed Chair and EC
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27 November 2017 – Mairéad O'Driscoll (Chair of ICPerMed) and Indridi Benediktsson (European Commission) gave two short interviews at the ICPerMed Executive Committee Meeting on 24th and 25th October in Lisbon.
read more: Video Interviews with ICPerMed Chair and EC.
ICPerMed Executive Committee Meeting in Lisbon
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In October 2017, the ICPerMed Executive Committee met in Lisbon, Portugal to discuss and plan strategy and future activities of the consortium. The meeting was hosted by the Portuguese partners, INSA and FCT.
read more: ICPerMed Executive Committee Meeting in Lisbon.
Partnering Tool for Personalised Medicine launched
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3 November 2017 – Recently the ICPerMed Partnering Tool for personalised medicine research has been launched. The ICPerMed Partnering Tool facilitates networking among universities, research and patient organizations, SMEs, industry and all other stakeholders interested in personalised medicine research.
read more: Partnering Tool for Personalised Medicine launched.
EC Video on Personalised Medicine Projects
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3 November 2017 – The 'Innovative and Personalised Medicine Unit' of the European Commission (EC) DG RTD Directorate E-Health has published a video on 'How co-operation paves the way for personalised medicine'. Several examplary successful projects funded by the EC under its framework programmes for research and innovation are presented.
read more: EC Video on Personalised Medicine Projects.
ICPerMed Workshop 2017
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The first ICPerMed workshop took place on 26-27 June 2017 in Milan, Italy. In five parallel sessions, experts and funders from different fields of personalised medicine discussed and developed solutions for the following topics:
read more: ICPerMed Workshop 2017.
ICPerMed@Workshop EU regions in PM
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On May 4-5, Mairéad O’Driscoll and Wolfgang Ballensiefen as chairs represented ICPerMed at the workshop “The contribution of EU regions to Research and Innovation for Personalised Medicine” that was organized by the European Commission in Brussels.
read more: ICPerMed@Workshop EU regions in PM.
ICPerMed Action Plan for Personalised Medicine published
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22 March 2017 – The International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) identifies future research needs in a common Action Plan. The aim of ICPerMed is to boost personalised medicine by an enhanced coordination and alignment of research activities. Over the past year, the members of ICPerMed have developed a common Action Plan with central research and research-supporting activities in all areas relevant to personalised medicine.
read more: ICPerMed Action Plan for Personalised Medicine published.
ICPerMed@EMA
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On March 14th, Judit Molnar, member of ICPerMed’s Steering Board, represented ICPerMed at the workshop of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) about “Personalised medicines – focus on patients and healthcare professionals” in London.
read more: ICPerMed@EMA.
ICPerMed@(Bio)Pharma Ireland Seminar
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On February 28th, Charlotte Videbaek, member of ICPerMed’s Steering Board, represented ICPerMed at the (Bio)Pharma Ireland high-level seminar: “The future of (bio)pharmaceutical manufacturing” that took place in Brussels.
read more: ICPerMed@(Bio)Pharma Ireland Seminar.
ICPerMed Article in Clinical and Translational Science
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28 February 2017 – Elmar Nimmesgern, Indridi Benediktsson and Irene Norstedt from the European Commission recently published an article about ICPerMed: „Personalised Medicine in Europe“. It gives a very good overview about the background of ICPerMed and about current developments in personalised medicine in general and underlines that “[…] the time is ripe for a meaningful demonstration of the potential of personalised medicine approaches […]”.
read more: ICPerMed Article in Clinical and Translational Science.
Official Launch of ICPerMed
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Brussels, 24 November 2016 – Personalised medicine is a promising new concept for dealing with challenges of health and health systems. With the launch of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed), European countries aim to coordinate health research policy to advance the implementation of personalised medicine.
read more: Official Launch of ICPerMed.
