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La lettre d'information de l'Institut thématique Cancer
s'interrompt jusqu'au 10 janvier 2025.

Joyeuses fêtes de fin d'année !

Dans le cadre de la Stratégie décennale de lutte contre les cancers 2021-2030, l'Inserm ouvre sa campagne 2025 d'appels à projets ou à candidatures, selon le calendrier ci-dessous.

APPELS EN COURS

Apports des mathématiques et de l'informatique à l'oncologie (MIC)

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! Date limite de candidature : 19 décembre 2024, 17h

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Caractérisation des lésions prénéoplasiques (PNP)

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Date limite de candidature : 30 janvier 2025, 17h

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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 son appel à projets "Radiofréquences et santé", qui 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 : 17 décembre 2024 à midi.

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Le programme Soutien aux réseaux scientifiques européens ou internationaux de l'Agence nationale de la recherche aide des équipes françaises ayant déposé, en tant que coordinatrices, un projet de recherche à des appels collaboratifs européens (Horizon Europe) ou internationaux, à renforcer la qualité de leur candidature pour la dernière étape de l’appel visé.

Date limite de candidature : 31 décembre 2024.

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Ouverture le 18 décembre 2024

La Fondation ARC et la Fondation pour la recherche médicale mutualisent désormais leur aide à la réalisation d'une 4^e année de thèse en cancérologie en lançant un appel à projets conjoint pour l'année 2025.

Date limite de candidature : 27 janvier 2025 à 15h.

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Ouverture le 18 décembre 2024

La Fondation ARC lance sa campagne de printemps permettant de soutenir de jeunes chercheurs à différentes étapes de leur formation.

Masters 2 Recherche (profils médicaux)

Date limite de candidature : 29 janvier 2025 à 15h.

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Post-doctorats en France (profils scientifiques ou médicaux)

Date limite de candidature : 29 janvier 2025 à 15h.

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The call for proposal "Recruiting international leaders in Oncology" from the Fondation ARC will allow to bring a high-level researcher from abroad to set-up a research team in a French structure, and to implement a high quality innovative research project in 2025.

Deadline for application: February 14^th 2025, 03:00 PM.

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Le partenariat européen pour la médecine personnalisée EP PerMed, dans lequel s'inscrit cet Appel transnational conjoint 2025, est soutenu par l’Union européenne dans le cadre d’Horizon Europe. EP PerMed est une plateforme pour la programmation conjointe d’activités régionales, nationales et européennes de soutien à la recherche et à l’innovation en matière de médecine personnalisée. Une journée d'information sera organisée le 9 janvier 2025.

Date limite de soumission des prépropositions : 18 février 2025 à 14h (CET).

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La Fondation ARC et la Société française du cancer s’associent pour soutenir de jeunes chercheurs cliniciens souhaitant se former à la recherche.

Date limite de candidature : 21 février 2025 à 15h.

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La Fondation ARC renouvelle et fait évoluer son appel  à projets SIGN'IT, qui intègre désormais 2 axes :

• le premier consacré à l'identification de signatures de réponse à l'immunothérapie ; 
• le second à la validation clinique des signatures.

Date limite de soumission des candidatures : 18 mars 2025 à 14h.

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January 28^th - 29^th 2025, Virtual

This conference organised by European Association for Cancer Research and AstraZeneca will present and discuss the current clinical utilities of ctDNA and cfDNA based liquid biopsies, and review the opportunities and challenges of cancer early detection with minimally invasive approaches.

Deadline for registration: December 16^th 2024.

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Année 2024-2025

La faculté de santé/Sorbonne Université lance la première formation universitaire française consacrée aux biopsies liquides, avec les objectifs suivants :

• consolider les connaissances sur les principales étapes de la tumorigenèse et de la dissémination métastatique ;
• développer le concept de biopsie liquide : avantages et limites ;
• exposer les différents composants de la biopsie liquide (ADN tumoral circulant, cellules tumorales circulantes, vésicules extracellulaires circulantes) ;
• expliciter la pertinence clinique de chaque biomarqueur circulant pour une médecine personnalisée proposée à des patients atteints d’un cancer solide ;
• détailler les technologies d’isolement et de caractérisation des différents marqueurs et se familiariser avec les outils d’analyse dont la bioinformatique et l’Intelligence artificielle.

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March 11^th - March 18^th 2025, Paris

The international course "Epigenetics: From nuclear organization to development in normal and diseased states", organised by the Institut Curie/PSL University Training office, will provide an overview of epigenetic mechanisms and their links to gene expression and chromatin dynamics in different systems. The diverse functions of the nucleus involving the genome and its organization will be discussed with an emphasis on technological limits and the new experimental approaches being developed today. Links between the disruption of nuclear functions and the development of human pathologies will be discussed.

Deadline for registration: January 7^th 2025.

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April 23^rd - April 25^th 2025, Paris

The international course "Radiomics: Theory and Practice" is organised by the Institut Curie/PSL University Training office.

Deadline for registration: March 15^th 2025.

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May 19^th - May 23^rd 2025, Paris

The international course "Genome Instability and Human Disease", organised by the Institut Curie/PSL University Training office, will address the following topics:

• Basics mechanisms for maintaining genome stability (repair, replication, DNA damage signaling, spatial genome organization);
• Dysfunction of these pathways in human diseases (cancer, aging, immunodeficiency);
• Molecular signature of genome instability;
• The DNA damage response as anti-cancer therapeutic targets and tools for diagnostic/prognostic.

Deadline for registration: March 2^nd 2025.

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A fully funded postdoctoral position supported by ITMO Cancer-Aviesan (PCSI Programme) is available in the MEDyC (Matrice extracellulaire et dynamique cellulaire, Université Reims Champagne-Ardenne/CNRS 7369) research unit.

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Le programme Impact Santé, confié à l'Inserm par l'État, a pour objectif de soutenir le développement de solutions pour faire face aux grands défis scientifiques, technologiques et sociétaux dans le domaine de la santé humaine. Les projets "d'amorçage" ou "d'accélération" contribueront notamment :

• à l’ouverture d’un nouveau champ de recherche ;
• à l’essor d’applications ou d’outils s'appliquant à toute la communauté scientifique ;
• au développement de nouveaux produits de santé ou dispositifs médicaux ;
• à une amélioration du système de santé pour les patients, les soignants, ou du parcours de soin global ;
• à une meilleure coordination entre la médecine de ville et l’hôpital.

Voir la présentation du programme.

Dépôt des candidatures au fil de l'eau.

Sélection des projets : mi-juillet, mi-octobre, mi-décembre.

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The European Research Council 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 research proposal.

Deadline for application: January 14^th 2025, 17:00 Brussels Time.

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The objective of the Marie-Sklodovska-Curie Action Staff Exchanges Call for proposals is to develop a sustainable collaboration among different organisations from the academic and private sectors based in Europe and beyond.

Deadline for application: February 5^th 2025, 17:00 Brussels Time.

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Ce programme de la Fondation ARC a pour objectif de soutenir des recherches visant à approfondir la compréhension des spécificités de la biologie des cancers chez les patients âgés.

Date limite de soumission des projets : 4 mars 2025 à 15h.

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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 13^th 2025 & September 18^th 2025, 17:00 Brussels Time.

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The objective of the Marie-Sklodovska-Curie Action Cofund Call for proposals is to provide complementary funding for doctoral or postdoctoral programmes managed by entities established in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries.

Deadline for application (opening on January 23^rd 2025): June 24^th 2025, 17:00 Brussels Time.

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16 janvier 2025, 13:30-17:00, Nantes

Le Cancéropôle Grand Ouest, membre du consortium OncoSTART, organise sa 1^re journée OncoSTARTUPPER. Session de sensibilisation à l’entrepreneuriat en oncologie, cet événement aura pour objectif de présenter les acteurs de l’entreprenariat dans la région afin de permettre une meilleure connaissance du réseau local.

Date limite d'inscription (gratuite mais obligatoire) : 10 janvier 2025.

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30 et 31 janvier 2025, Paris

February 5^th - 7^th 2025, Toulouse

The Toulouse Onco Week scientific symposium, organised by the Institut universitaire du cancer de Toulouse, will focus on exploring the mechanisms of resistance and new innovative strategies, where artificial intelligence offers the prospect of revolutionary advances for the benefit of patients.

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February 11^th - 12^th 2025, Virtual

This conference organised by European Association for Cancer Research and Boehringer Ingelheim will focus on both the basic and clinical aspects of regulating signalling through the MAPK pathway and its role in cancer.

Deadline for abstract submission: December 16^th 2024.

Deadline for registration: January 24^th 2025.

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February 25^th - 26^th 2025, Virtual

The conference "The Systemic Consequences of Cancer: Cancer as a Whole-body Disease", organised by the European Association for Cancer Research, will explore the underlying mechanisms of the systemic effects of cancer. The following topics will be covered:

• How cancer alters the immune system,
• Cancer induced systemic metabolic reprogramming of the host,
• Mechanisms of niche formation in tumour metastasis,
• Cancer cachexia,
• How cancer alters the brain and behaviour including anorexia,
• New opportunities for therapeutic intervention.

Deadline for abstract submission: January 13^th 2025.

Deadline for registration: February 3^rd 2025.

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March 18^th - 20^th 2025, Lyon

The conference "Persister Cells: from Bacteria to Cancer" organised by the European Association for Cancer Research will adress the subject of non-genetic drug resistance of cancer cells.The following topics will be covered:

• Molecular mechanisms of persistence,
• Novel methodologies for studying persister cells,
• Emerging vulnerabilities: Targeting persister cells,
• Persister cells in the clinic.

Deadline for abstract submission: January 20^th 2025.

Deadline for registration: February 17^th 2025.

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March 18^th - 21^st 2025, Heidelberg (Germany) & Virtual

This meeting organised by the European Molecular Biology Organisation and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory will be dedicated to the biological mechanisms that mediate drug resistance and tolerance across the species barriers, i.e. bacteria, fungi and cancer cells, within 6 sessions:

• Molecular targets and mechanisms of tolerance and resistance,
• Resistance and tolerance mechanisms of microbiomes and commensals,
• Resistance and tolerance mechanisms, single cell biology, persistence & clonal evolution,
• Resistance and tolerance mechanisms: the role of efflux and drug transport,
• Molecular genetics of resistance and tolerance mechanisms,   
• The role of macro- and microenvironment on resistance & tolerance mechanisms.

Deadline for abstract submission: January 15^th 2025.

Deadlines for registration:  January 12^th 2025 (on-site attending) and February 4^th 2025 (virtual attending).

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March 28^th 2025, Paris

This symposium, organised under the auspice of the Thematic Institute Molecular and Structural Basis of Life Sciences, will expose the current diversity of bioinspiration and underscore how it can lead far beyond the traditional boundaries of biology.

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May 13^th - 15^th 2025, Barcelona (Spain)

This European Association for Cancer Research conference "Defence is the Best Attack: Immuno-Oncology Breakthroughs" will provide an overview of the most recent advances in the field of immunotherapy from the basic science to clinical studies, including the identification of novel targets. The following topics will be covered:

• Immune checkpoints,
• Innate immune response,
• Microbioma,
• Immune cell therapies,
• Vaccines,
• Biomarkers of response to immunotherapy,
• Mechanisms of resistance to immunotherapy.

Deadline for abstract submission: March 17^th 2025.

Deadline for registration: April 14^th 2025.

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June 16^th - 19^th 2025, Lisbon (Portugal)

The 2025 Annual Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research  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 6^th 2025.

Deadline for registration (opening January 2^nd 2025) : May 27^th 2025.

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September 23^rd - 25^th 2025, Essen (Germany)

This European Association for Cancer Research conference will focus on cancer models that span in vitro investigations to in vivo cancer biology. Emerging topics include how the extracellular matrix controls cell architecture, mechanobiology, the immune response, and how cell fate transitions underpin tissue morphogenesis and the metastatic cascade. will bring together international leaders of this field to identify the most relevant current insights, and to develop a roadmap for future preclinical, translational and clinical research.The following topics will be covered:

• How complex cell interactions are coordinated to control tumour growth and metastasis, including cell fate transitions in tissue biology and cancer,
• Targetable roles of the extracellular matrix in cancer biology,
• Cancer immunotherapies,
• Advanced imaging technologies,
• Organoids and microtissue platforms,
• Spatial transcriptomics.

Deadline for abstract submission: June 23^rd 2025.

Deadline for registration: August 26^th 2025.

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October 14^th - 16^th 2025, Bilbao (Spain)

The bidirectional crosstalk between both the central and peripheral nervous system and cancer has changed the understanding of malignant diseases throughout the body. This European Association for Cancer Research conference will bring together international leaders of this field to identify the most relevant current insights, and to develop a roadmap for future preclinical, translational and clinical research.The following topics will be covered:

• Neural influences on cancer cells,
• Neural influences on the tumor environment,
• Influences of cancer (therapies) on the nervous system,
• Cancer-intrinsic neural mechanisms.

Deadline for abstract submission: June 30^th 2025.

Deadline for registration: September 15^th 2025.

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October 22^nd - October 25^th 2025, Heidelberg (Germany) & Virtual

The aim of this 5^th edition of the European Molecular Biology Organisation/European Molecular Biology Laboratory symposium on organoids is to incorporate more complementary technologies, such as multiomics, engineered embryo models and bioengineering, as well as to increase the representation of the topic of cancer.

Deadline for abstract submission: July 16^th 2025.

Deadlines for registration: September 10^th 2025 (on-site attending) & October 15^th 2025 (virtual attending).

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March 26^th - April 2^nd 2025, Paris

The international course "Non-Coding Genome: Dark Genome in Cell Plasticity and Heterogeneity", 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, expanding the topics around the fields of genomics, epigenetics and transcriptomics including single-cell technologies and analysis, epigenome and gene expression regulation, genome organisation and cell clonality.

Deadline for registration: February 15^th 2025.

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L'unité mixte de recherche 9196 (CNRS/Gustave-Roussy/Université Paris-Saclay) "Physiologie et pathologie moléculaires des rétrovirus endogènes et infectieux" recherche un.e jeune post-doctorant.e en viro-oncologie.

Date de démarrage souhaitée : fin 2024-début 2025.

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A post-doc position in radio-immuno-oncology is available in the Tumor Micro Environment laboratory of Inserm Unit 1109 in Strasbourg.

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Starting date: ASAP.

The Cancer Immune Surveillance and Therapeutic Targeting lab of the Cancer Research Center of Lyon is seeking a postdoctoral fellow with the aim of deciphering the role of B cells and antibodies in ovarian tumors to improve anti-cancer immunity.

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Starting date: ASAP.

A full-time postdoctoral position is available in the « Molecular Regulation of Cancer Immunity » team of the Cancer Research Center of Lyon, France. The team studies the NF-kappaB family of transcription factors in T-cell biology, with focus on tumor immunity and autoimmune diseases.

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Starting date: Fall 2024.

A post-doctoral position (30 months) at the interface between Cancerology, Immunology and Vascular Biology is available in the 'Equipe Labellisée LIGUE 2023' (LabEx TOUCAN, IPBS, Toulouse).

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