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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

The SAMRC, DSI, NIPMO and ALL of US program officers had a discussion on data sovereignty and
navigating data-intensive collaborative research.

The Europe-Africa Personalised
Medicine EU-Africa PerMed Consortium
The EU-Africa PerMed is a Coordination Support
Action Project, funded by the European Commission
Horizon 2020 program, with the aim to foster research
and innovation collaboration and knowledge
exchange between Africa and Europe in Personalised
Medicine (PM). It comprises of 13 partners from
Africa and Europe. The consortium focuses on
building regional networks within Africa, analysing
the personalised medicine landscape, driving the The EU-Africa PerMed Consortium:
policy dialogue and actively developing a roadmap Building links between Africa and Europe in
to enhance the field on the continent. Personalised Medicine. Partners engaged
at a high-level conference hosted by the
In the past financial year, the project has conducted Spanish presidency in Valencia, Spain.
several core stakeholder engagement initiatives.
These interactions have resulted in a large
Continental Gaps and Needs analysis as a key reports enabling an African-centric approach to
deliverable that was submitted to the European developing PM on the continent. The Spanish
Commission and ongoing regional engagements of Presidency of the Council of the European Union
the Southern, Northern, Eastern, Western and Central hosted a High-Level Conference on Personalised
African regions to develop an Action Plan for the Medicine on the 4th and 5th of October 2023 at
development of Personalised Medicine in Africa. The the Príncipe Felipe Research Center Foundation
project has given rise to policy briefs and numerous (CIPF) in Valencia as part of the EU2023 Espanol

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