Erika Sela is Senior Consultant and co-founder of Innovatec, a Spanish consultancy firm with a broad and long-term expertise in R&I activities.  She has a bachelor’s degree in Biology. She has over 25 years’ experience in in R&D management in different positions and organizations.  In the last years, her main activity has been dedicated to European projects, participating as both partner and coordinator. She is member of EU-LAC PerMed project and participated in the FP7 research project EVAL-HEALTH, developing new methodologies to monitor the impact of international research projects in Public Health. Impact oriented monitoring: A new methodology for monitoring and evaluation of international public health research projects (: https://academic.oup.com/rev/article/24/2/131/2364625).

She is now the coordinator of the H2020 project EU-Africa PerMed: Building Links Between Europe and Africa in Personalised Medicine, which started on 1stFeb 2021 and will run for 4 years. This project has the overall aim of integrating African countries into ICPerMed activities, thus contributing to a successful implementation of Personalised Medicine (PM) in the global context. It will foster joint PM projects and programmes between Europe and Africa, as well as strengthening bilateral EU-AU science, technology and innovation (STI) relations in the area of health.( https://www.euafrica-permed.eu/)

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