InVS (Institut de Veille Sanitaire), Inserm - ITMO Public Health and the INCA (National Cancer Institute) have implemented the CER (Evaluation Committee for Registers).

This committee is composed of eleven qualified persons selected following a call for applications. The CER will be responsible for evaluating the registers, taking into account both their missions of research and monitoring. The procedure will be different from the previous procedure of registers qualification: the repository of quality registers, as well as evaluation methods to implement, will be defined by the committee during the first sessions. The CER will also make proposals for policy records, as required by the epidemiological surveillance and public health research.

October 24, 2014 in Rennes (The Diapason, Campus Beaulieu, University of Rennes 1)

Organizer: Committee of doctoral and post-doctoral fellows of the Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes, under the patronage of the British learned society Biochemical Society.

Theme: This complex signalling mechanism is activated following DNA lesions, which can occur spontaneously or be induced. Failure in the DNA damage response leads to genomic instability and is associated with various diseases, including cancer, human hereditary disorders and age-related diseases.

Program and registration

The ITMO Public Health aims to support and encourage research projects to take advantage of collections of biological samples backed by existing cohorts.

In this context, ITMO Public Health seeks expression financing needs support in this area. AProjects involving one or more clinical or epidemiological research team(s), one or more clinical team (s) and one or more research team(s) in biology are particularly concerned.

Deadline for applications: Friday, September 5, 2014 12

Contact: Marion Le Gal

More information here.

The second symposium of the SF-DOHAD (Francophone Society for Research and Education on Developmental Origins, Environmental and Epigenetic Health and Disease) will be held in Nantes on 6 and 7 November 2014.

This symposium leans to the recent United Nations approach to prescribe new priorities of action by incorporating this developmental perspective, to deal with the global crisis of chronic diseases using prevention. The symposium will bring together experts from various disciplines to allow understanding of the societal challenges of this new approach and challenges for research.

Registration form online here.

Registration Deadline: Saturday, October 18, 2014

Contact: sfdohadnantes2014@nantes.inra.fr