EP PerMed organised its first Expert Symposium on Personalised Medicine Implementation on 21 October 2025 in Bilbao (Spain).
During this one-day event, high-level experts and invited participants showcased and discussed nine different examples of how European national and regional healthcare systems address the implementation of personalised medicine. They focused on the facilitating factors, as well as the gaps and challenges that can impede its adoption within these systems.
The discussions revealed that, while national strategies and EU-level policies play a central role, regions are pivotal in delivering care, testing innovations, and deploying infrastructure. EP PerMed will analyse the symposium’s outcomes to further explore these topics and identify the key factors that can contribute to the integration of personalised medicine into adoption strategies, ensuring scalability, equity and sustainability. It also became evident that combining multilevel governance, coordination among regions and nations, patient partnership, and regulatory coherence would increase the successful implementation of personalised medicine for the benefit of European citizens on an equitable basis.
The event was organised by EP PerMed Work Package 4, lead by the Health Sciences Institute of Aragon (IACS) together with BIOEF and the Health Department of the Basque Regional Government as hosting institutions.