An overview of Personalized Medicine landscape and policies in the European Union.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The spread of Personalized Medicine (PM) over the last decade defined a revolution in healthcare systems. PM is among the priorities of the European Commission's research agenda, which funded the IC2PerMed international project aiming to integrate China into the International Consortium of PM (ICPerMed). In the context of this project, we mapped the existing policies related to PM in the European Union (EU) and at the EU Member States (EU-MS) level.

Methods

PubMed, Google Scholar, Google, Microsoft and national and international institutions' official repositories were searched in order to identify documents on PM-related policies, programmes and action plans at the EU and EU-MS level, published up to December 2020.

Results

We identified 28 policies in the

SUBMITTER: Beccia F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9713394 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature