During the annual ICPerMed family meeting, that took place online on the 28th November 2024, the EU-Africa PerMed team had the opportunity to update on the latest activities and project results.
Our project coordinator, Erika Sela, provided an overview of the key milestones and progress made by the EU-Africa PerMed project during the last year, highlighting the success in incorporating 3 African organizations in ICPerMed. Luciana Gine, the communication and dissemination manager, presented our ongoing initiative to document and showcase Success Stories of Africa-Europe research collaboration in PM
A major project results, the EU-Africa PerMed Action Plan was presented by Monika Frenzel, task leader. The plan includes a set of 26 actions formulated as recommendations to be implemented at different levels and by different actors, all aimed at facilitating, fostering and promoting the research collaboration between Africa and Europe inPersonalised Medicine.
The Action Plan has been published and is available here.
The ICPerMed family meeting titled “A New Phase for PerMed”, was also joined by our project partner from South Africa Medical Research Council, Rizwana Mia, who has recently been elected as the new ICPerMed Vice-Chair.
The meeting also featured discussions on several key topics, including:
- Strategic considerations around policy and internationalization within the ICPerMed network and its alignment with the European Partnership for Personalised Medicine (EP PerMed).
- Updates on the latest ICPerMed family project PROPHET.
- A warm welcome to the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of Tunisia as a new member of ICPerMed.
- Insights from Genome Canada on their latest personalised medicine initiatives.
This event provided a valuable opportunity for EU-Africa PerMed to contribute to the global conversation on advancing personalised medicine and reinforcing collaborative efforts between Africa and Europe.
More inforamation on EU-AFrica PerMed: https://www.euafrica-permed.eu/
More information on ICPerMed: https://www.icpermed.eu/