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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.

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Formation à la recherche fondamentale et translationnelle en cancérologie - Doctorat en sciences (FRFT-Doc)

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! Date limite de candidature : 4 mars 2025, 17h

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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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L’objectif de ce programme de l'Agence nationale de la recherche est d’inciter les acteurs de la recherche académique à créer des partenariats structurés à travers la coconstruction de "laboratoires communs" entre une PME, une ETI ou une start up et un laboratoire d’organisme de recherche.

Dates limites de candidature : 31 mars 2025 & 22 septembre 2025, à 17h.

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27 mars 2025, Paris

Ce colloque a pour objectif de réunir chercheurs et cliniciens afin de réfléchir aux enjeux spécifiques auxquels sont confrontés les adolescents et jeunes adultes atteints d'un cancer. Cette journée contribuera à la définition des axes de recherches prioritaires pour un futur appel à projets dédié aux cancers des AJA.

Date limite d'inscription (gratuite mais obligatoire) : 7 mars 2025.

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13 mars 2025, Paris

Le séminaire "Cancers et tumeurs rares : prédispositions ou expositions", proposé par le Cancéropôle Île-de-France, a pour objectif de mettre en évidence les points communs et les différences entre un même type de cancer ou tumeur rare ayant des causes liées à l’environnement ou à des prédispositions génétiques, pour identifier des problématiques communes et capitaliser sur les expertises de chacun.

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March 20^th 2025, 13:00 - 14:30 (Paris Time), Virtual

The G7 Cancer webinar "Pathways to Precision Cancer Prevention" will concentrate on the emerging research across novel precision prevention approaches.  The session will highlight not only agents currently under investigation in cancer prevention studies (such as cancer prevention vaccines and therapeutic agents), but also those primarily used for other indications, which are showing growing evidence of a cancer preventive role.

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3 avril 2025, Paris

Le séminaire "Enjeux et défis des données géospatiales pour l'oncologie", proposé par le Cancéropôle Île-de-France, a pour objectif de poser un regard critique et constructif sur la mise à disposition et l’utilisation de données géographiques pour l’oncologie.

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June 26^th 2025, Paris & Virtual

The G7 Cancer conference "Poor Prognosis Cancers: From Resignation to Revolution", jointly hosted by the French National Cancer Institute and the National Cancer Center Japan, marks the launch of a global initiative aimed at addressing the pressing challenges of research on poor prognosis cancers, with a specific focus on gastrointestinal cancers.

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July 27^th - 31^st 2025, Würzburg (Germany)

This European Molecular Biology Organisation workshop "Phosphatases: From Basic Research to Translation" will address topics such as phosphatase-driven disease biology, phosphatase structure, function and regulation, drug discovery and translation to the clinic, with a session dedicated to cancer research.

Deadline for abstract submission & registration: April 11^th 2025.

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September 22^nd - 25^th 2025, La Grande Motte

The aim of this European Molecular Biology Organisation workshop "SUMOylation: From Discovery to Translation" is to integrate perspectives on the function of SUMOylation from different fields, including oncology and drug discovery.

Deadline for abstract submission: May 1^st 2025.

Deadline for registration: June 1^st 2025.

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December 2^th - 3^rd 2025, Virtual

The European Association for Cancer Research conference "Cancer Cell Plasticity: Cracking the Code of Adaptation and Survival" will explore the fundamental mechanisms that control cancer cell plasticity at multiple biological levels, including the epigenome, transcriptome, metabolome, and cellular microenvironment. Experts will also discuss innovative approaches to target cancer cell plasticity using novel pharmacological interventions, aiming to prevent or reverse the adaptive mechanisms cancer cells use to circumvent conventional therapies. The following topics will be covered:

• Cancer cell plasticity 
• Metastasis
• Therapy resistance
• Tumour heterogeneity
• Non-genetic adaptations in cancer cells
• Tumour-microenvironment interactions
• Therapy resistance

Deadline for abstract submission: October 6^th 2025.

Deadline for registration: November 3^rd 2025.

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Le Cancéropôle Île-de-France met à disposition des chercheurs académiques franciliens, impliqués dans des projets de recherche en cancérologie, le MOOC RNASeq Bulk, proposé en libre accès durant toute l’année 2025. Cette formation en ligne a pour objectif d'initier à l’analyse de données RNA-seq de type bulk avec R Studio, en prenant l’exemple de l’analyse de l’expression différentielle de gènes.

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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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June 15^th - 20^th 2025, Heidelberg (Germany)

This course organised by the European Molecular Biology Organisation will to provide participants a comprehensive introduction to the various methods of spatial-omics and in particular those of multiplex immunofluorescence and spatial transcriptomics.The following topics will be covered:

• Tissue sample preparation,
• In situ sequencing,
• Oligo probe design,
• In situ signal amplification,
• Antibody-DNA conjugation,
• Multiplexed protein imaging (IBEX and Immuno-SABER),
• Basic data processing and analysis.

Deadline for application: March 10^th 2025.

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September 14^th - 19^th 2025, Heidelberg (Germany) & Virtual

This course organised by the European Molecular Biology Organisation will concentrate on teaching cutting-edge concepts and tools for quantitative image analysis and seek to upgrade the competencies of future bioimage analysis experts on both theoretical algorithm advancements as well as on practical implementation skills.The following topics will be covered:

• Image analysis workflow and data management,
• Using AI and natural language processing for image analysis,
• Cells and particles tracking,
• Spatial statistics and omics integration,
• Deep learning for bioimage analysis,
• Image-based behaviour modeling,
• Spatial modeling and shape analysis,
• Open science, reproducible research and women in science.

Deadline for application: June 4^th 2025.

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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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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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Le programme Chaires industrielles de l'Agence nationale de la recherche a notamment pour objectif d'augmenter l’investissement en recherche et développement du secteur privé et la participation des acteurs publics au développement de produits et procédés innovants.

Date limite de candidature : 18 mars 2025 à 13h.

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La Ligue nationale contre le cancer apporte son soutien à l'organisation de colloques en lançant 2 appels à projets par an.

Date limite de candidature 1^re session : 27 mars 2025.

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Date limite de candidature 2^e session (ouverture le 12 mai 2025) : 4 septembre 2025.

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Le Cancéropôle Grand Ouest lance plusieurs appels à projets ou à candidatures pour 2025.

Émergence

Date limite de candidature : 2 avril 2025 à midi.

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Jeunes chercheuses/Jeunes chercheurs

Date limite de candidature : 2 avril 2025 à midi.

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Mobilité

Date limite de candidature : 2 avril 2025 à midi.

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Ce prix récompense un responsable de recherches conduisant ou pouvant conduire à des applications susceptibles d’accroître l’espérance de vie par des actions préventives ou curatives.

Date limite de candidature : 10 avril 2025.

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La Ligue nationale contre le cancer accorde des allocations doctorales de 3 ans pour des étudiants s’inscrivant en 2025 en 1^re année de thèse au sein d’une université française.

Date limite de candidature (ouverture le 7 mai 2025) : 16 juin 2025.

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La Ligue nationale contre le cancer accorde une allocation de mobilité, pour financer un séjour à l’étranger d’une durée d’un ou deux ans, à un clinicien souhaitant poursuivre son activité dans la recherche sur les cancers.

Date limite de candidature 2^e session (ouverture le 19 mai 2025) : 19 juin 2025.

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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: June 24^th 2025, 17:00 Brussels Time.

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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.

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Dépôt des candidatures au fil de l'eau.

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

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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.

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14 mars 2025, Paris

La Société française du cancer et l'Institut Curie organisent un colloque autour du thème Cancer Biomechanics: Exploring the Physcal Forces Driving Tumor Progression.

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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.

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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.

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19-21 mars 2025, Talence

La Société française de thérapie cellulaire et génique organise son congrès annuel, avec deux sessions consacrées au traitement des cancers.

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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 5^th - 7^th 2025, Paris

The International symposium on Human Genomics will be the opportunity to promote research in genetics and genomics in France and to bring the community together, around the following themes:

• Genetics and Pathologies,
• Population Genetics and Statistical Genetics,
• Genome Annotation,
• Openness to Society/Science Communication,
• Epigenetics / Regulome,
• Immunogenetics,
• Single Cell/Spatial Transcriptomics.

Deadline for registration: April 11^th 2025.

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6 & 7 mai 2025, Bordeaux

La plateforme de soutien à l’innovation en cancérologie MATWIN, filiale d’Unicancer, organise la 10^e édition de MEET2WIN, Convention Partnering européenne centrée autour de l’innovation en oncologie.

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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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May 20^th - 23^rd 2025, Toronto (Canada)

The 11^th International γδ T Cell Conference will address the following themes:

• Cancer responses,
• Cancer therapies,
• Development & Differentiation,
• Infection responses,
• Ligands & Repertoires,
• Tissues & Inflammation.

Deadline for abstract submission: March 15^th 2025.

Deadline for registration: May 15^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: May 27^th 2025.

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June 23^rd - 26^th 2025, Tours

This meeting organised by Le Studium-Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies will showcase the latest insights and discoveries in the field of ion channels and Ca²⁺ signaling in particular. 

Deadline for abstract (oral presentation or poster) submission: April 1^st 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 8^th - 10^th 2025, La Grande-Motte

This 6^th Metabolism & Cancer Symposium will address the following themes:

• Host Metabolic Reprogramming,
• Stem Cells and Metabolism,
• Metabolism-driven Epigenetics/Epitranscriptomics
• Metabolic Control of Drug Resistance, Therapy and Biomarkers.

Deadline for early bird registration: September 8^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, with the following sessions:

• Concepts from development and evolution,
• Building organoid complexity,
• Organoids from adult stem cells,
• Organoids in regenerative medicine/therapy,
• Organoids in disease modeling,
• Organoids and engineering.

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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November 11^th - 13^rd 2025, Bergamo (Italy)

The conference "EACR-Mark Foundation Joint Conference: The Rise of Early-Onset Cancers - Biology, Causes, and Detection", organised by the European Association for Cancer Research, will address the following themes:

• Systems and translational cancer epidemiology,
• Molecular pathological epidemiology,
• Risk factors in early life and young adulthood,
• Precision-based cancer prevention/control strategies,
• Screening, early symptoms and early detection,
• Biological basis for cancer disparity,
• Aetiology of sporadic cancers among younger adults,
• Molecular features of early-onset cancers,
• Exposome changes from the millennials to contemporary young generations (including diet, lifestyle, obesity, environment and the microbiome),
• Interactive roles of environment (i.e. the exposome), microbiome, immunity, and tumour in carcinogenesis,
• Interaction between carcinogens and genetic, polygenic, or epigenetic predispositions,
• Preclinical experimental models of early-onset cancers,
• Microsimulation modelling,
• Treatment, including impact on quality of life and survivorship.

Deadline for abstract submission: September 15^th 2025.

Deadline for registration: October 13^th 2025.

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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.

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April 7^th - April 11^th 2025, Paris

The general objective of the 7^th Cell Biology and Cancer international course, organised  by the Institut Curie/PSL University Training office, is to cover different topics focusing on molecular and mechanical oscillations in biological systems:

• Transcriptional oscillations,
• Oscillations of contractile cells,
• Circadian rhythm,
• Theory of oscillations,
• Metabolic oscillations

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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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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.

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May 12^th - May 16^th 2025, Orsay & Paris

The aim of the international course "Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation", organised by the Institut Curie/PSL University Training office, is to provide an overview of post transcriptional gene regulations at multiple levels, including (pre-)messenger RNA splicing, polyadenylation, modifications (epitranscriptome), localization, translation and degradation.

Deadline for registration: March 17^th 2025.

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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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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 : ASAP.

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Le pôle de psychologie/santé publique du département Sciences humaines et sociales du Centre de recherche en cancérologie de Lyon recrute un chef de projet/Ingénieur de recherche, qui aura pour mission de participer à la conception, à la coordination et à la mise en œuvre de projets scientifiques/cliniques, ainsi qu’au recueil, à l’analyse des données et à leur valorisation.

Date de début souhaitée : février 2025.

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The AMMICa (Molecular Analysis, Modeling and Imaging of Cancer) unit (Gustave-Roussy/Paris-Saclay University/CNRS/Inserm) is seeking a Head for its Rare Circulating Cells Core Facility.

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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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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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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 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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