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Dans le cadre de la Stratégie décennale de lutte contre les cancers 2021-2030, l'ITMO Cancer d'Aviesan publie le calendrier de ses appels à projets ou à candidatures pour l'année 2024, dont la gestion opérationnelle est confiée à l'Inserm.

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APPELS EN COURS

PCSI - Date limite de candidature : 14 Décembre 2023 à 17h.

MIC - Date limite de candidature : 21 Décembre 2023 à 17h.

MCMP - Date limite de candidature : 8 Février 2023 à 17h.

Nouvelles annonces

L'initiative Sanofi iDEA-TECH Awards est un programme d’appel à projets visant à transformer des innovations technologiques développées par des laboratoires académiques, start-ups et biotechs en solutions permettant d’accélérer la découverte de nouvelles thérapies.

Date limite de soumission des prépropositions : 15 Décembre 2023.

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CALL OPEN

The Call for proposals "Nano and advanced technologies for disease prevention, diagnostic and therapy (NANOTECMEC)", funded by the European Union in the frame of the ERA4Health patnership, will aim to:

• Support translational research projects that combine innovative approaches in the field of nanomedicine;
• Encourage and enable transnational collaboration between academic research and clinical/public health research or R&D activities from industrial enterprises.

Deadline for pre-proposals submission: January 30^th 2024.

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More information.

APPEL OUVERT

L’objectif de l’appel à projets "Signatures en immunothérapie" de la Fondation ARC est de favoriser l’identification de signatures permettant de prédire la réponse d'une tumeur à un traitement par immunothérapie, et donc de guider la décision thérapeutique.

Date limite de soumission des candidatures : 6 Mars 2024 à midi.

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L’Inserm ouvre en 2024 10 chaires, parmi lesquelles 4 concernent, en tout ou partie, la recherche sur le cancer.

Computational Modeling for Multi-Omics Data - Unité d'accueil : CRCM (Institut Paoli-Calmettes/CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université/Inserm U1068).

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Epitranscriptomics and Cancer Adaptation - Unité d'accueil : IRCM (Université de Montpellier/Inserm U1194).

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Bioengineering for Therapeutics - Unité d'accueil : Université de Nantes/Inserm U1089, U1229, U1307.

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Identification of Dysregulated Embryonal Programs in Pediatric Cancers - Unité d'accueil :  Institut Curie/Université PSL/Inserm U830, Paris.

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Processus & Calendrier.

The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim at facilitating exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC funded research and are therefore available only to Principal Investigators whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research.

Deadlines for application: March 14^th 2024 & September 17^th 2024, 17:00 (Brussels time)

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December 7^th 2023, 14:00 - 15:00 CET

The series "Meet the Expert" of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) will welcome Dr Johanna Joyce, Professor in the Department of Oncology UNIL CHUV (University of Lausanne and Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland). She will expose its work on the comprehension of the immune landscape of brain tumours, and the use of this knowledge to develop novel strategies to therapeutically target the tumour microenvironment.

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Les prochains rendez-vous du programme LORIER (Organisation pour une recherche Inserm éthique et responsable) auront lieu :

Mardi 12 Décembre 2023, de 11h à midi

Quels sont les obstacles et les solutions pour une recherche transparente et reproductible ? Avec Isabelle Boutron.

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Mardi 9 Janvier 2024, de 11h à midi

Prévenir les conflits d’intérêts. À quoi sert la déontologie ? avec Philippe Amiel.

March 4^th - 6^th 2024, Bordeaux

This workshop organised by the Institute for Philosophy in Biology and Medicine will focus on two topics:

• The role of the microbiota in cancer development and dissemination, a question that attracts increasing attention but remains challenging to address;
• The metastasis, which is considered as a major challenge for cancer treatment and a leading cause of cancer death, and for which innovative conceptual and theoretical frameworks are needed.

Deadline for abstract submission: December 5^th 2023.

NEW Programme & More information.

May 16^th - 17^th 2024, Bordeaux

Matwin will organise the 9^th edition of its European Partnering Convention entirely dedicated to open innovation in oncology: A two-day partnering convention combining conferences, collaborative sessions, projects’ pitches, one-to-one prescheduled business meetings, etc.

Deadline for application: February 28^th 2024.

Registration.

Programme.

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September 30^th - October 3^rd 2024, Heidelberg (Germany) & Virtual

This symposium organised by the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) will cover emerging key concepts of latent metastasis and dissemination of tumor cells. Topics will address:

• Metastasis initiating cells, circulating tumour cells;
• Motility and invasion;
• Transcriptional and epigenetic control of metastasis;
• Metastasis heterogeneity, empithelial-mesenchymal transition and plasticity;
• Metastasis signalling and latency;
• Metastasis imaging, tumour microenvironment and immune evasion.

Deadline for registration: August 19^th 2024 (on-site attending) & September 23^rd 2024 (virtual attending).

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May 22^nd - 29^th 2024, Paris

This international course, organised by the Institut Curie/PSL University Training office, will explore the versatility of non-genic DNA elements and non-coding RNAs across a spectrum of cellular processes, in humans and model organisms, and their implication in physiology and disease.

Deadline for registration: March 3^rd 2024.

NEW Programme.

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REGISTRATION OPEN

May 3^rd - 6^th 2024, Düsseldorf (Germany)

This workshop organised by the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) will be dedicated to the theme 'Intercepting childhood blood cancer: from single cells to malignant clones'.

Deadline for abstract submission: February 15^th 2024.

Deadline for registration: February 15^th 2024.

Programme & More information.

REGISTRATION OPEN

May 29^th - 31^st 2024, Rimini (Italy)

This worshop organised by the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) will cover the following topics:

• Tumour evolution;
• Chromatin and description;
• Cell plasticity;
• Tumour heterogeneity;
• Epigenetics and gene regulation.

Deadline for abstract submission: April 15^th 2024

Deadline for early bird registration: March 15^th 2024.

Programme & More information.

REGISTRATION OPEN

August 18^th - 26^th 2024, Spetses (Greece)

This Lecture Course organised by the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) will cover the following topics:

• Signaling by various pathways (PI3K, WNT, RAS/RAF);
• DNA damage and protein degradation signaling;
• Consequences of pathway deregulation for cellular processes like metabolism and damage repair;
• Application or translation of this knowledge into the clinic.

Deadline for abstract submission: April 1^st 2024.

Deadline for registration: April 1^st 2024.

Programme & More information.

SAVE THE DATE

November 17^th - 22^nd 2024, Heidelberg (Germany)

This course organised by the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) will update the participants about different case-by-case models starting with the basic science, and how to best explore these models with accurate data acquisition and reporting.The topics chosen are:

• Immune reconstitution;
• Oncology;
• Immuno-Oncology;
• Regenerative Medicine;
• Infections.

NEW Pre-programme & More information.

L'équipe Genomics and Development of Childhood Cancers de l'unité "Cancer, hétérogénéité, instabilité et plasticité" (Institut Curie/Université PSL/Inserm U830) recrute :

• un(e) ingénieur(e) en bioinformatique

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• un(e) post-doc en bioinformatique/génomique

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Et toujours d'actualité

Medicen et le Cancéropôle Ile-de-France lancent un nouvel appel à manifestation d'intérêt en oncologie "Data-mining et modèles in silico pour accélérer la R&D préclinique en oncologie", avec 2 premiers rendez-vous fixés :

1. Un webinaire de présentation de l'AMI le 6 décembre 2023 de 12h à 13h (inscription) ; 

2. Une réunion en présentiel le 22 janvier 2024 à Paris.

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CLÔTURE IMMINENTE

Dans le cadre de son Programme national de recherche Environnement-Santé-Travail, l’Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail lance ses deux appels à projets de recherche annuels.

AAP "Santé - Environnement et santé - Travail"

Cet appel à projets vient en appui aux politiques publiques, déclinant notamment les priorités de recherche des plans nationaux santé environnement, santé travail et cancer. Cet appel à projets est financé par l'Anses sur des budgets délégués par les ministères chargés de l'environnement, du travail, de la santé et de l'agriculture et par plusieurs cofinanceurs : l'Ademe et l'ITMO Cancer de l'alliance Aviesan.

Date limite de soumission des lettres d'intention : 7 Décembre 2023 à midi.

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AAP "Radiofréquences et santé"

Cet appel à projets a pour objectifs de conduire les communautés scientifiques à produire des données utiles aux différentes phases de l'analyse du risque sanitaire et, ainsi, à rapprocher recherche et expertise scientifique.

Date limite de soumission des lettres d'intention : 19 Décembre 2023 à midi.

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CLÔTURE IMMINENTE

Les "Programmes labellisés" de la Fondation ARC concernent tout laboratoire académique et relèvent de tous les domaines et disciplines participant à la lutte contre le cancer. Les projets auront pour objectif une meilleure compréhension ou une meilleure prise en charge des cancers et devront reposer sur des données préliminaires solides.

Date limite de soumission des lettre d'intention : 12 Décembre 2023 à 15h.

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Plus d'infos.

CLOSING SOON

The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

Deadline for application: December 12^th 2023, 17:00 (Brussels time).

More information.

CLÔTURE IMMINENTE

La Commission Fulbright franco-américaine gère pour le compte des gouvernements français et américain plusieurs programmes de soutien à la mobilité entre la France et les Etats-Unis, et notamment :

Les bourses doctorantes et doctorants 

Date limite de candidature : 20 Décembre 2023.

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Les bourses chercheuses et chercheurs

Date limite de candidature : 20 Décembre 2023.

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Le Prix Paul-Gabay (Comité du Val-d'Oise) est destiné à aider ou à récompenser des travaux consacrés à l’étude des cancers professionnels (mécanismes de la carcinogenèse, prévention, dépistage). Les travaux soumis peuvent concerner des approches expérimentales (visant à explorer le mécanisme d’action ou l’effet cancérogène d’agents du milieu professionnel), épidémiologiques ou être en rapport avec des actions de prévention (programmes spécifiques d’évaluation des expositions), de dépistage ou de prise en charge sur le plan médico-social.

Date limite de candidature : 15 Janvier 2024.

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MATWIN propose le programme accélérateur GROW, en collaboration avec le Paris-Saclay Cancer Cluster.

Date limite de candidature : 31 Janvier 2024.

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This Call for proposals from the Fondation ARC wishes to allow the implantation in France of new scientific leader that will establish his/her team and carry out ambitious research in oncology.

Deadline for application: February 15^th 2024 3:00 PM.

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Dans le cadre du plan Innovation Santé 2030, l'Agence nationale de la recherche a lancé son appel à candidature "Chaire d’excellence en biologie/santé". Cette mesure a pour objectif d’offrir à des chercheurs de premier plan et de toutes origines des financements conséquents pour mener en France de nouveaux projets d’envergure.

Date limite de soumission des lettres d'intention (levée 3) : 23 Avril 2024 à 11h CEST.

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Plus d'infos.

December 5^th - 6^th 2023, virtual

This conference organised by EACR and AstraZeneca will focus on basic and clinical aspects of targeting a broad panel of epigenetic proteins in cancer, either as monotherapies, or as combination therapies, including the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors to increase drug sensitivity and overcome chemoresistance.

Programme.

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December 7^th - 8^th 2023, Bordeaux

The annual meeting of the Club francophone des cellules dendritiques (French DC Society) will be dedicated to the theme 'Development, metabolism and function of dendritic cells and macrophages in health and disease'.

Deadline for registration: December 6^th 2023.

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December 11^th - 12^th 2023, Nantes

The GO Immuno meeting 2023, organised by the LabEx IGO (Laboratory of Excellence Immunotherapy-Graft-Oncology) will aim to present the latest results and data in the fields of translational immunology and the development of immunotherapy applied to cancer, chronic inflammatory diseases, organ transplants and infectious diseases.

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11-12 Décembre 2023, Bordeaux

Ces journées scientifiques autour des 5 réseaux d'expertise de France Life Imaging répondent à un double objectif :

• faire émerger de nouvelles collaborations entre équipes françaises travaillant en imagerie médicale ;
• faire un point sur les recherches menées en imagerie médicale et financés par FLI en France.

Ces journées seront également l'occasion de visiter les principaux équipements ouverts à la communauté scientifique, en imagerie clinique et préclinique, sur les sites de l'Institut de Bio-Imagerie et de l'IHU Liryc.

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February 13^th - 14^th 2024, Virtual

This conference organised by the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) will focus on basic mechanisms controlling cancer cell signaling circuits at the epigenome, transcriptome, proteome and phosphoproteome levels. The talks will also focus on therapeutic targeting of cancer cell signaling circuits by conventional and emerging pharmacological strategies.

Deadline for registration: January 15^th 2024.

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February 27^th - 29^th 2024, Dublin (Ireland)

The European Association for Cancer Research and American Association for Cancer Research, in collaboration with the Irish Association for Cancer Research, organise a joint conference which will focus on bringing the latest discoveries from basic science to the clinic. The forum will highlight the latest cutting-edge advances in the understanding of the genomics, epigenetics and molecular pathways involved in the development of pre-cancerous and cancerous lesions and/or in cancer response to therapy.

Deadline for early rate registration: December 6^th 2023.

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March 12^th - 15^th 2024, Heidelberg (Germany) & Virtual

The aim of this symposium organised by the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is to catalyse synergistic interactions between AI researchers in different subfields of biology, by exploring shared theoretical approaches, cross-domain experiments, and data integration, as well as shared topics in dissemination of tools and collaboration with experimental labs.

Deadline for abstract submission: December 5^th 2023.

Deadline for registration: January 30^th 2024 (on-site attending) & March 5^th 2024 (virtual attending).

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March 19^th - 21^st 2024, Bergamo (Italy)

This meeting organised by EACR will cover the latest breakthroughs on multiple aspects of the tumour microenvironment, including the intricate interactions of cancer cells with the immune system and with specific stromal cells in multiple organs. Novel insights into tumour-host interactions including changes in metabolism, the nervous system and response to therapy will be highlighted.

Deadline for abstract submission: January 22^nd 2024.

Deadline for registration: February 19^th 2024.

Programme.

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April 30^th - May 2^nd 2024, Bergamo (Italy)

This conference organised by the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) will cover the following domains:

• Machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyse and integrate multiomic data;
• Genomes and transcriptomes of cancers at single cell resolution;
• Cell tracking to monitor evolution and plasticity;
• Cancer evolution and immune evasion;
• Interpreting the cancer genome;
• Cancer epigenetics;
• Identification of (neo)antigenic landscape and specific antitumor T-cell response in human cancers;
• Spatial and 3D analysis of tumors at molecularly annotated single cell resolution.

Deadline for abstract submission: February 26^th 2024.

Deadline for registration: March 25^th 2024.

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May 29^th - 31^th 2024, Ajaccio

The 5^th meeting of the SUNRiSE Network will be dedicated to the theme 'Heterogeneity and Plasticity in Cancer', with the most recent insights in the CSC field such as:

• Metabolic plasticity;
• CSC maintenance;
• Understanding and targeting tumor heterogeneity;
• Deciphering the interplay between CSC and tumor microenvironment.

Deadline for early bird registration: February 24^th 2024.

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June 10^th - 13^th 2024, Rotterdam (Netherlands)

The 2024 Annual Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) is a four day congress dedicated to basic, preclinical and translational cancer research across a wide breadth of topics. It will highlight the latest research and bring together the cancer research community to inspire innovation and build knowledge, connections and collaborations.

Deadline for abstract submission: March 4^th 2024.

Deadline for early rate registration: April 29^th 2024.

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October 8^th - 10^th 2024, Bilbao (Spain)

The EACR Conference on Cancer Metabolism will gather top experts to discuss the metabolic alterations in tumours and how this can be exploited to treat cancer.

Deadline for abstract submission: August 5^th 2024.

Deadline for registration: September 9^th 2024.

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November 12^th - 14^th 2024, Lyon

This European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) Conference will provide a comprehensive overview of liquid biopsies in cancer, with the following topics to be covered:

• Implementation of liquid biopsy in clinical trials; 
• Applications for CTCs;
• Basic biology for biomarker discovery;
• New techniques enhancing liquid biopsy;
• Integration of multiple blood-based analytes for multimodal biomarkers;
• Artificial Intelligence applied to liquid biopsy.

Deadline for registration: October 14^th 2024.

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December 7^th - 9^th 2023, Paris

The aim of this "1^st Course on Urothelial Cancers 2023: Tumor heterogeneity and therapeutic resistance", organised by the Institut Curie/PSL University Training office, is to provide a practical and up-to-date overview of the latest research and clinical developments in urothelial cancer, including muscle-invasive and non-muscle invasive bladder cancers, upper urinary tract urothelial carcinomas, and their metastases.

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17 Janvier 2024 - 12 Mars 2024, en ligne

Cette formation en ligne est à destination des chercheurs débutant en NGS, impliqués dans un projet de recherche en cancérologie dans un laboratoire académique français. Le MOOC a les objectifs suivants : 

• apprentissage des bases théorique des analyses NGS et du traitement des données RNA-seq de type bulk issues de séquençage haut débit ;
• mise à niveau sur l’utilisation de R Studio et sur les méthodes statistiques ;
• initiation pratique à l’analyse de données RNA-seq avec R Studio pour l’étude de l’expression différentielle de gènes.

Programme & Inscription.

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January 30^th - 31^st 2024, Virtual

The European Association for Cancer Research (EACR), in partnership with the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), launches a virtual conference for those working in cancer research in an academic environment who are considering at some point in the future taking their research private by starting their own company.

Deadline for registration: January 15^th 2024.

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February 27^th - March 1^st 2024, Heidelberg (Germany)

This practical course organised by the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) will cover the following topics:

• Multimodal data integration;
• Multi-omics factor analysis;
• Statistical analysis;
• Spatialresolution;
• Single-cell data.

Deadline for application: December 5^th 2023.

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March 13^th - 20^th 2024, Paris

The aim of this Course 'Epigenetics:From nuclear organization to development in healthy and diseased states' organised by the Institut Curie/PSL University Training office is to provide an overview of epigenetic mechanisms and their links to gene expression and chromatin dynamics in different systems. Links between the disruption of nuclear functions and the development of human pathologies will be discussed. This year, focus will be on reprogramming aspects during development and in disease with a special emphasis on cancer.

Deadline for registration: December 20^th 2023.

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April 23^rd - 26^th 2024, Singapore

The core objective of this European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Workshop is to bring together outstanding researchers, from all around the world, at all stages in the field of epigenetics/chromatin biology with a focus on cancer for the exchange of ideas and information.

Deadline for abstract submission: February 1^st 2024.

Deadline for registration: February 1^st 2024.

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September 1^st - 3^rd 2024, London (UK) & Virual

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October 23^rd - 25^th 2024, Rome (Italy)

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Le groupe Mécanismes moléculaires des pathologies de l'hématopoïèse et biothérapies (Institut Imagine) recrute un.e assistant.e ingénieur.e ou ingénieur.e d'étude pour travailler sur la fonction d'un gène lié à l'apoptose dans deux maladies hématopoïétiques rares : le syndrome lymphoprolifératif auto-immun et la mastocytose.

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The team Cancer Cell Signalling in the Centre de recherche en biologie cellulaire de Montpellier is looking for a young scientist to work on a new oncogenic mechanism in hepatoellular carcinoma.

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The Jinfeng Laboratory in Chongqing (China) opens 2 postdoc positions on gliomas research. The postdoc researcher will explore genes, pathways and drugs regulating the self-renewal and differentiation of glioma cells at the epigenetics, genetics and proteomic levels.

Deadline for application: December 2023.

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A post-doc position in onco-immunology is available in the Tumor Microenvironment group of the Inserm Unit 1109 in Strasbourg.

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