Events & News

Enhancing Patient Safety: How the Delphi Process is Empowering Patients in Healthcare

In an era of increasingly complex healthcare, patient safety remains a top priority. One of the most pressing issues in this field is the management of adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The SafePolyMed p...

SafePolyMed Team meets in Leiden for 4th Progress Meeting

On November 14 and 15, the SafePolyMed team came together at Leiden University Medical Centre to discuss the project's progress. The consortium meeting ran one and a half days and provided the group w...

SafePolyMed presented at Exopharm in Munich

On 12 October, Laura Fuhr, Fatima Marok and Thorsten Lehr presented the SafePolyMed project and research goals at Exopharm in Munich. Exopharm is an important trade fair for the pharmacy market. With...

Participation in Golden Helix Summer School

SafePolyMed will be present at the Golden Helix Summer School on Syros Island, Greece. The Summer School follows the topic of Advancing Personalized Medicine to the Clinic and takes place from 25th...

Joint session with sister projects at 40th ISQua Conference

SafePolyMed will join this year's Conference of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) in Turkey. In a joint session with the Horizon Europe sister projects BE-SAFE, DELIVER and...

SafePolyMed at 23rd International Gene Forum 2024 in Tartu

On 24th and 25th September, several members of the Consortium will present project results at the Gene Forum in Tartu, Estonia.

The presentation with the title "Exploring drug-drug-gene interactio...

SafePolyMed at Joint Multi-stakeholder Workshop on Pharmacogenomics

On Tuesday, 24 September 2024, Jesse Swen and George Patrinos will be representing SafePolyMed at the Multi-stakeholder Workshop on Pharmacogenomics in Amsterdam. Jesse and George will present the aca...

SafePolyMed Organises Training for Safety in Polypharmacy

Under the lead of project partner Patvocates GmbH, SafePolyMed will organise a free online training course on safety in polypharmacy in October.

Polymedication, that is the combination of several me...

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Lehr in Conversation with TK Health Insurance on Medical Data, the Electronic Patient Record, and the SafePolyMed Mission

We are pleased to announce the release of a new video interview featuring Prof. Dr. Thorsten Lehr, the coordinator of the SafePolyMed project and Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at Saarland University....

SafePolyMed Meets for the Annual Meeting in Heraklion, Greece

For the last two days, from April 14-15, SafePolyMed met in Heraklion, Greece, for the bi-annual progress meeting. A big thank you is extended to partner FORTH for hosting the event and for their exce...

SafePolyMed at Spring Conference 2024 for Tallinn General Practitioners' Society "Polypharmacotherapy in Clinical Practice"

On April 19, 2024, partner UTARTU attended the Spring Conference 2024 for Tallinn General Practitioners' Society "Polypharmacotherapy in Clinical Practice". In her talk on "Genes and drug side-effects...

Building a Future of Personalised Drug Therapy and Enhanced Patient Empowerment: SafePolyMed Project Releases New Video

Age, biological sex, genetic constitution, and current or chronic disease status are among the pivotal factors influencing how drugs interact with each other and our bodies. A "one-size-fits-all" stra...

Second Progress Meeting of SafePolyMed in Munich, 21-22 November 2023

From 20–21 November 2023, the SafePolyMed team met in Munich for the Second Progress Meeting.

To kick-off, our hosting partner LeukaNET e. V. gave a presentation on patients’ perspectives and patie...

Stay Organised, Stay Engaged: My Story of Managing Medication

by Joan Jordan

Saturday afternoons are when you will find me sorting my medication for the coming week. This habit has formed because most pill organiser gadgets start on Sunday. I currently use a...

What Do We Mean by Patient Safety? Notes on a Growing Concept

by Ivica Belina

Everyone has the right to health and healthcare, as well as the right to safe medicinal practices.

We are witnessing how medicine and science are making remarkable advancements e...

World Patient Safety Day 2023

At SafePolyMed, patient safety is our top priority. Our mission is to enhance drug treatment safety, especially for patients who are taking multiple medications for different conditions. With the them...

Launch of the SafePolyMed Newsletter

We invite you to check out the inaugural issue of the SafePolyMed newsletter, which has just been released. If you wish to stay updated on our project, be sure to subscribe to receive forthcoming...

Advancing Drug Safety: How the SafePolyMed Project Is Using Machine Learning to Predict Adverse Drug Reactions

by Alexandros Kanterakis and Kleanthi Voutsadaki

It is common knowledge in healthcare that there is no such thing as a completely harmless drug. It is also a known fact that drugs are thoroughly a...

First Progress Meeting of SafePolyMed Held in Athens, Greece

The first Progress Meeting of the SafePolyMed project was held on May 11-12 at the Palmyra Beach Hotel in Athens.

To ensure widespread participation and allow partners who could not attend in person...

EU Knowledge Valorisation Week 2023: Learn More on Turning Research into Solutions

Join stakeholders and policymakers at the EU Knowledge Valorisation Week between 25 April and 28 April 2023. The annual event highlights best practices promoting the uptake of research results and sci...

Webinar on Patent Protection for EU funding beneficiaries

SafePolyMed invites anyone involved in the field of Artificial Intelligence in medical technology to join the webinar on patent protection on the 16th of March 2023.

The webinar is organised by the...

SafePolyMed Meets in Person for the First Time at Its Face-to-Face Meeting in Saarbrücken, Germany

From 24 to 25 November 2022, the SafePolyMed consortium met for its first face-to-face meeting at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. After the virtual kick-off meeting in July, it was a grea...

New Project “SAFEPOLYMED”

Towards Safer Drug Treatment and Enhanced Patient Empowerment

International research team sets out to provide physicians and pharmacists with innovative tools to increase drug treatment safety and e...