Statement concerning the 1 Million Genomes Declaration
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
