HNN 2.0 Webinar on ICPerMed and related projects
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12 November 2018 – The Health NCP Net 2.0 is organizing a webinar 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 Webinar 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 2018 – 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.
