PRECISEU: Accelerating Personalised Medicine Across Europe
Sahlgrenska Science Park (SSP) is proud to be a core partner in PRECISEU – an EU Horizon Europe project aimed at removing barriers and creating the foundation for equitable access to personalised healthcare across Europe. Through research, collaboration, and system-level innovation, PRECISEU is helping define how personalised medicine can be implemented on a broad scale — with lasting impact for patients and society.
Why Sahlgrenska Science Park is Involved
SSP is deeply committed to advancing precision health and fostering collaborative innovation. Our role in PRECISEU reflects this dedication, as we coordinate and lead key workstreams that focus on:
Mapping barriers and good practices across Europe through stakeholder interviews and workshops.
Bridging research, industry, and healthcare, enabling the translation of innovation into real-world applications.
Developing a roadmap to speed up personalised medicine by building an open innovation model and harmonised best practices.
"With our strong regional ecosystem and long-standing partnerships with healthcare, academia, and business, we bring the coordination power and community reach needed to activate meaningful change. At Sahlgrenska Science Park, we see this as an opportunity to unlock the potential of personalised medicine for everyone — not just a few. It's about turning insight into impact, and making sure innovation reaches the people who need it most.”– Gwen Gilderson, Senior Project Manager, Sahlgrenska Science Park
Project Highlights
Sahlgrenska Global Health Hackathon
As part of PRECISEU and our commitment to collaborative innovation, SSP has hosted Sahlgrenska Global Health Hackathons in six countries: Sweden, Spain, the US, Germany, the UK, and Singapore. These dynamic cross-sector initiatives bring together students, clinicians, entrepreneurs, researchers and professionals to solve pressing global health challenges. The result: bold, actionable ideas that bridge the gap between need and solution.
Learn more about Sahlgrenska Global Health Hackathon
Mapping Barriers to Precision Care
SSP leads a key PRECISEU initiative focused on identifying and categorizing the systemic obstacles that slow precision care implementation while also mapping promising local and international initiatives. Across 10 European countries, 170 expert interviews and regional workshops have gathered diverse perspectives and insights. This rich input will serve as the cornerstone in shaping a future pan-European roadmap for change—one grounded in real-world insights and informed by those working closest to the challenges and opportunities in precision care.
Recent News from the Project
Introducing the PRECISEU Advisory Board
PRECISEU has established a high-level Advisory Board of 11 international experts in precision healthcare. We are proud that Sweden is strongly represented by two leaders:
Gisela Helenius, Head of Unit, ATMP Center at ATMP Sweden
Ebba Hallersjö Hult, Co-founder & Head of Vision Zero Cancer and Test Bed Sweden
Their expertise will be vital in guiding the project’s strategy and sustainability.
Best Practice Recognition
The PRECISEU project has launched the Best Practice Recognition, an annual initiative that aims to showcase transformative practices that advance personalised healthcare across Europe.
We’re also pleased to highlight Swedish engagement, with Richard Rosenquist Brandell, Head of Genomic Medicine Sweden and Professor of Clinical Genetics at Karolinska Institutet, serving on the Jury Board of the Best Practice Recognition.
Local Workshop at Sahlgrenska University Hospital
SSP recently co-hosted a workshop with the Precision Medicine Center at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, focusing on the challenges that prevent personalised medicine from reaching patients.The workshop embraced some of the key challenges, such as:
Health data sharing limitations
Inequitable access to diagnostics across the country.
Lack of incentives and support to stimulate research-to-innovation progress.
Funding for innovation development in precision medicine.
This local insight contributes to PRECISEU’s broader gap analysis and future policy work.
Sahlgrenska Science Park Contributes to Cross-Regional Insights in PRECISEU
As part of the PRECISEU project, Sahlgrenska Science Park recently gathered with five consortium partners in Catalonia, hosted by Biocat, to analyse regional findings from interviews and workshops across Europe.
The goal: to identify common barriers to implementing personalised medicine. While rooted in local contexts, many of the challenges proved remarkably similar, highlighting broader systemic issues and policy gaps at the EU level. The insights will guide future PRECISEU activities, including open calls, policy recommendations, and regional implementation strategies.
The full cross-regional report will be published by the end of September 2025.
Looking Ahead
The first year of PRECISEU have shown the power of collaboration and shared ambition. Sahlgrenska Science Park remains fully committed to the project’s next phase — translating insights into scalable solutions, and advancing the implementation of personalised healthcare across Europe.
About the project
The general purpose of PRECISEU is connecting innovation ecosystems across Europe to efficiently advance towards a truly personalised healthcare, transferring practices and solutions from region to region and scaling up deep-tech healthcare innovations based on advanced therapies medicinal products and health data across Europe.
Learn more at preciseu.eu
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