1st Joint Newsletter of IC2PerMed and Sino-EU PerMed

Welcome to the first joint newsletter of the projects SINO-EU PerMed (Widening Sino‐EU Policy and Research Cooperation in Personalised Medicine) and IC2PerMed (Integrating China in the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine). Both projects focus to support ICPerMed (International Consortium for Personalised Medicine) towards Chinese partners as well as to get a common understanding of European and Chinese personalised medicine (PM) approaches.

This newsletter will keep you in the loop of our activities and achievements.

Our projects in a nutshell...

In February 2020, IC2PerMed and Sino-EU PerMed met in Rome for a back-to-back Kick-off Event and exchanged ideas on their project activities, milestones and aims but also identified common activities to support each other and to join forces to get a broader visibility.

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In 2020 Sino-EU PerMed and IC2PerMed launched their websites. If you want to get background information on the projects, project partners, activities and events, please visit the websites available in English and Chinese:

Since this is the first time of a strategic collaboration approach between China and Europe in PM, an overview of relevant Chinese and European strategies, programmes, funding activities and stakeholders have to be identified. This was done by two different mapping approaches. While IC2PerMed focused more on PM strategies, programmes and funding activities, Sino-EU PerMed focused on stakeholders by looking at bilateral collaboration, due publications and patents. The first findings are presented on the respective web pages. The mappings have shown that the EU and China are very active in PM and already cooperating in a few areas. The strategies and programmes also follow a similar direction, but differ in certain points:

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IC2PerMed e-Workshop 'Policies and programmes in the field of PM: first results of the mapping activities of the IC2PerMed project'

The e-workshop on EU-China policies and programmes for Personalised Medicine was held virtually on 23 November 2020. The event was hosted in order to give participants the opportunity to get an overview of EU-China backgrounds for cooperation on PM, as part of the IC2PerMed project developments.

The same workshop was also replicated in Mandarin, simultaneous translation to / from English on 19 January 2021 in order to involve a larger Chinese audience. Among the numerous attendees there were working group experts, advisory board members, IC2PerMed project partners and many academics and participants involved in different areas of policies in the field of PM.

Slides and recordings

Open Call for Experts – IC2PerMed Working Groups

An open call for experts was launched by the end of January and will be published on IC2PerMed website (available both in Chinese and English versions). Even if a great number of experts have already been engaged in the project during the last few months through a process of rigorous selection, it is still fundamental to involve the largest number of experts possible, before working groups activities start and maximise every expert’s competencies. By the open call, the intent is also to reach a greater number of Chinese experts so that both the main 'actors' involved in the project would be equally represented.

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IC2PerMed Survey on China-EU Coperation over PM Developments

To make sure our collaboration begins on a solid and valuable base of evidence, experts will first of all be required to validate our mapping findings by means of a survey has been launched at the end of January. The survey is based on the results of the mapping activities and aims to explore the current landscape of implementation, priorities, and challenges of PM in China and Europe, with a focus on Sino-European collaboration in this field. The results of this survey will complement the ongoing mapping activities within IC2PerMed project and will be fundamental for starting activities of the other work packages. They will also serve as the basis for the IC2PerMed working groups as support in developing recommendations for implementing the ICPerMed’s Action plan into China.

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Kick-off Meeting of IC2PerMed Working Groups (March 2021)

The kick-off meeting of the 3 Working Groups will be held virtually in March 2021 in order to officially start the activities. It will be essential to set up regular meetings between all the members of the Working Groups. Experts from all over the world will find themselves interacting and working together. Documents, minutes of the meetings and working documents will be shared among the WGs to ensure synergies, integration among procedures and avoid duplication in order to create working synergies. Our hope is that regular meetings might be held in person as soon as the pandemic situation would allow that.

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Sino-EU PerMed Travel Activities

Due to the corona pandemic, the exchange travel activities within the Sino-EU PerMed project will delay. We will inform you on our next events in the newsletter and on our website.

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