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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

The Europe-Africa Personalised The project has given rise to policy briefs and
Medicine EU-Africa PerMed Consortium numerous reports enabling an African-centric
approach to developing PM on the continent. The
The EU-Africa PerMed is a Coordination Support
Action Project, funded by the European Commission EU Africa PerMed Team hosted a side meeting
Horizon 2020 programme, with the aim to foster alongside the European Partnerships in Personalised
research and innovation collaboration and knowledge Medicine (EP-PerMed) Annual General Meeting in
exchange between Africa and Europe in personalised January 2025. The SAMRC President and CEO, the
medicine (PM). It comprises of 13 partners from Department of Science, Technology and Innovation
Africa and Europe. In the final year of the project the representative from the South African mission
consortium focused on building regional networks in Brussels and SAMRC lead EU-Africa PerMed
within Africa, analysing the personalised medicine Programme Manager participated in this high-level
landscape, driving the policy dialogue – launching side meeting and presented the Action Plan to the
the Dakar declaration and developing an action plan European Commission and member states of the
to enhance the field on the continent. EP-PerMed consortium.

The SAMRC President & CEO and SAMRC Senior Programme Manager participated in the handing over of the
EU-Africa PerMed Action Plan to the European Commission, EP-PerMed Members and ICPerMed Board.

International Consortium for
Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed)
The SAMRC, as a member of the International
Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed),
has taken a leadership position with the SAMRC
Programme Manager for Precision Medicine, a
member of the Executive Committee of ICPerMed,
being elected as Vice Chair of the ICPerMed
consortium in July 2024. The consortium includes
participation in the largest funding partnership
in PM, the European Partnership in Personalized
Medicine (EP-PerMed). The Programme Manager
joined the SAMRC President and CEO and DSTI The SAMRC President and CEO, and SAMRC
Senior International Relations Officer to the SA Programme Manager & Vice Chair of ICPerMed
mission in Brussels at the first EP-PerMed Annual at the Annual General Meeting of
General Meeting in Brussels in January 2024. The EP-PerMed in January 2025.
SAMRC also participated as an invited funder to

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