Presidency event - Spain. Genomics-based health strategies: towards personalised and precision medicine

This action will cover the organisation of an event by the Spanish Presidency, focusing on personalised medicine.

Personalised medicine has gained significant attention over the last decade as technologies for understanding biological differences between individuals have advanced dramatically. There are many potential benefits of personalised medicine and its development will change the way in which some health services are delivered. Within the last decade, the EU has launched a series of initiatives, of different nature, aimed at promoting personalised medicine: regarding genomic medicine; the European Genome initiative, promoting collaborative consortia; ERA PerMed and ICPerMed, the construction of the EHDS (European Health Data Space) within the Digital Health Strategy of the EU and the forthcoming Genomic Data Infrastructure. However, personalised medicine is a wide area of study which still have some challenges to tackle.

The Spanish presidency event should be focused on the following asp