07 October 2025 – ICPerMed welcomes the Science for Africa Foundation (SFA Foundation) as new member. SFA Foundation is a pan-African, non-profit, public charitable organisation created to support, strengthen, and promote science and innovation in Africa.
SFA Foundation serves the African research ecosystem by designing, funding and managing programmes that support excellent science and innovation; and that build and reinforce environments that are conducive for scientists to thrive and produce quality research that impacts development.
SFA Foundation’s goal is to strengthen pan-African-defined science priorities, to support globally competitive research, to enable dignified and sustainable science careers on the Continent, to strengthen high-quality research environments, to support scientific innovation, and to promote actionable scientific excellence in the policy, knowledge and practice arenas.
SFA Foundation adds to the many partners from Africa that have joined ICPerMed in recent years, further highlighting the increasing interest of Africa in personalised medicine. This is a step further towards ICPerMed’s internationalisation, which is an important aim of ICPerMed, in order to align research and funding activities on an international level.