Patients will gain access to new diagnostics and cheaper therapies. The P4Health project, which has received funding under the Teaming of Excellence framework of Horizon Europe, will focus on developing and implementing the solutions necessary for developing personalised medicine in Poland. The project will last six years.
The main task of the P4Health project will be to develop the solutions needed to implement leading personalised medicine concepts and facilitate their use in everyday medical practice in Poland. The P4Health project will be carried out through close collaboration between the new and current Łukasiewicz – PORT research groups, with European discipline leaders in oncology and neuroscience, further supported by external experts. These multidisciplinary working teams will take advantage of ground-breaking technology platforms designed to cover all stages and dimensions of patient health analysis. This will improve the accuracy of diagnosis and enable selecting effective individual therapies, which will improve the health care system while lowering the unit cost of treatment.
A unique aspect of the P4Health project will be the experience of the Łukasiewicz – PORT partners in pre-clinical and clinical research, on which the research and implementation plan will be based. The established consortium will have permanent and direct access to the knowledge and expertise of leading European centres: CERBM in Strasbourg (France) and King’s College London (UK). In terms of P4Health, partners will create consistent models for implementing basic research results. These models will bring together a vision of participatory biobanking, advanced diagnostics, and comprehensive validation of therapeutic strategies. This is expected to lead to efficiently generating necessary data and increased translation of research results into economic and social values. Using artificial intelligence algorithms in the project to analyse and interpret medical data will lead to structural changes in the healthcare system. This will occur through increased availability and quality of medical data for those developing new solutions in modern medicine.
The P4Health project will also provide a unique forum for the exchange of knowledge through collaboration between researchers, clinicians, and industry representatives. At the social level, P4Health will become an expert forum for regulators to support interdisciplinary scientific initiatives, improve the functioning of the healthcare system and mobilise the public and private sector for increased research funding. The Teaming for Excellence competition is one of the most prestigious and valuable competitions available to research institutes under Horizon Europe. The P4Health consortium was awarded EUR 15 million for six years, of which almost EUR 11 million is the budget of Łukasiewicz – PORT’.