Europe is facing multiple challenges in the health sector and in health research. In the health sector, ageing population, failures of blockbuster approaches, increasing costs of healthcare and concomitant cost containment for healthcare are just a few of the obstacles to face. In health research, there is a need to better understand the mechanisms of diseases, break barriers across disciplines, and translate research results into clinical practice. Personalised medicine is an emerging field that promises to bring radical changes in healthcare. Personalised medicine may be defined as “a medical model using molecular profiling technologies for tailoring the right.
