PERTE for Avant-garde Health

The PERTE for Avant-Garde Health is a large national strategic program focused on health innovation. It aims to improve the health system and health protection, while strengthening the industrial fabric and economic growth through science, innovation, technology and digitalization.

Avant-garde Health is linked to the development and implementation of digital products, procedures and solutions that allow personalized attention and address new health and social challenges.

It includes an ambitious investment and reform agenda that encourages public-private collaboration, with approaches such as precision medicine, advanced therapies, digitalization and artificial intelligence. In addition, it identifies five key factors for success: strengthening health R&D&I, modernizing the industry, transferring knowledge, coheding the territory and training current and future professionals.

The so-called advanced therapy drugs include gene therapy, cell therapy and tissue engineering and are the paradigm of therapeutic innovation oriented to the needs of each patient, specially designed for each of the people suffering from a disease. For its manufacture, biological starting material (cells and tissues) is used, which is obtained from the patients themselves, or from donors, for its subsequent transformation through biotechnological techniques. Among the applications of this new type of medication are the treatment of cancer through the use of the so-called CAR-T, or gene therapies for patients with rare diseases, among others.

The Digital Health Strategy of the National Health System (SNS), approved by the Interterritorial Council of the SNS, constitutes the frame of reference for the development of the different initiatives and actions of digital transformation of health care included in this PERTE, promoting that the SNS addresses this transformation in a harmonious and coordinated manner, and in conditions of cybersecurity.

This transversal line aims to develop and strengthen the industrial fabric through the incorporation of innovation of high added value.

El potencial transformador de la I+D+I debe alcanzar a todo el sistema sanitario. Este criterio de equidad y cohesión territorial a través de la I+D+I se incorpora de forma transversal en diferentes actuaciones del PERTE. In addition, some instruments developed within the framework of the PERTE specifically promote collaboration and synergies with the CC.AA.