Dr Monika Frenzel, international coordinator at the Biology and Health department of The French National Funding Agency (ANR), represents ANR in several transnational strategic collaborations and international funding programmes focussing on Personalised Medicine. As such, she is part of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed), the CSAs ICPerMed Secretariat and EU-Africa PerMed and co-leads the European Partnership for Personalised Medicine (EP PerMed), preparations. She represents ANR within the ERA Net on Personalised Medicine, ERA PerMed, and is appointed chair for this programme. She completed her PhD in Physical Biochemistry and Radiation Biology and worked as a researcher in the field of cytogenetics and cohort studies.