The project PM4Future aims at organising the Conference on Personalised Medicine under the auspices of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union that will take place in Valencia during the first week of October 2023. The conference will focus on the challenges and opportunities for the implementation of personalised medicine in the healthcare as well as in the gaps on research and funding.
The specific objectives of the conference are the following:
• To gather the main European and international actors in the field of Personalised Medicine (PM) ranging from EC and national funding agencies to researchers and patients, fostering collaboration and synergies among them.
• To identify specific gaps in research funding and optimize the use of funding sources through an open discussion on how the different funding sources at European, national, and local level could be used and/or combined to enable innovative health strategies with a personalised medicine approach in different areas/diseases.
• To show case transnational joint efforts in personalised healthcare through successful collaborative projects and partnerships within Europe and beyond.
• To demonstrate the value of international cooperation to promote the development of personalised medicine, and vice-versa, by exploring best options for successful collaboration in PM between Europe and the African and Latin American regions.
• To reach consensus on an agreed set of recommendations and areas of improvement that could be incorporated in the following European Strategic Plans and working programs (including Cancer Mission and related Partnerships)
• To bring the citizens and patients into the discussions and try to approach the concept of personalised medicine to them, as key actors in the implementation of PM in the healthcare system.
the Conference will try to give a thought and first ideas or recommendations on priority research areas that need to be further financed in the following years, to ensure the PM has a real impact on the society, and that could be taken up into the following European Strategic Plans and work programs.
To structure the Conference, it will be divided into 3 main axes:
• AXE 1 : Prevention, diagnostics and treatment of diseases through a personalised approach.
• AXE 2 : Tools for Personalised Medicine: the role of federated transnational research infrastructures in the research of PM.
• AXE 3 : International cooperation as an element to promote the development of Personalised medicine.
The format of the conference will combine keynote speeches, round tables to foster discussion around topics of interest and short talks to showcase best practices and examples of EU projects. Online tools to facilitate interaction with the audience will be made accessible.
By providing a platform for discussing challenges and gaps in funding in the field of personalised medicine, the Spanish Presidency Conference aim to contribute to the following outcomes:
• Implementation of synergies and coherent funding approaches to ensure main challenges in the implementation of PM are properly addressed.
• Improvement of the uptake of results developed in the framework of European collaborative research.
