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ERA-NET: Systems medicine to address clinical needs

 

Specific challenge: The rise of genomics and the accumulation of large amounts of data potentially provide medicine with many new opportunities. With this abundance of different types of data has come the realisation that a full understanding of disease processes requires research that integrates and interprets data at the system level.

Through the seventh framework programme, co-ordination action CaSyM[1], health research funders, clinicians, researchers, medical educators and industry, have agreed a road map that prioritises areas where a systems approach is needed to address clinical questions and solve clinical problems. EU policy makers also recognise the need for systems medicine in the drive to make personalised medicine a reality (Commission draft report on use of –omics technologies in the development of personalised medicine).

Scope: Proposals should aim to coordinate national and regional programmes for research in the area of systems medicine. Proposals should impl