FEDER - UNICAEN - CPER INNOVONS - INNOVARET translational research - fct
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UNIVERSITE DE CAEN NORMANDIE
Cerebral, cancer and cardiovascular pathologies represent the leading causes of mortality in all developed countries. They cause physical and cognitive disabilities and more or less severe disabilities that directly impact the quality of life of patients and their loved ones. The aging of the population in developed countries makes the burden of these pathologies increasingly heavy on public health. Improving the care of people suffering from these conditions depends directly on the emergence and diffusion of biomedical innovations from screening to treatment. The interest of these innovations can only be scientifically demonstrated by the implementation of rigorous experimental and/or clinical research protocols. The real impact of recent pre-clinical and clinical innovations on improving patient care in real life is very poorly understood and their impact on the organization of care is poorly evaluated. The rare studies conducted in the general population show how the practice of care and the integration of innovations often escape biomedical logic and depend on social, economic or geographical determinants. The development of supportive care, ambulatory care, therapeutic education as well as the establishment of a care network and the growing involvement of patients in their care have revealed and reinforced the close links between the occurrence and evolution of illnesses and the environment of individuals in its family, social, economic and geographical. Psychological and sociological approaches, facilitated by the growing involvement of user committees, have highlighted the need to take into consideration, around the role of the "carer", the patient's family environment to optimize their care. Geographic and sociological approaches have shown how taking into account the characteristics of the place of residence and the socio-economic environment of patients is a major criterion in the successful development of ambulatory medicine and care networks. Recent examples of health planning, the cancer plan, the Alzheimer's plan show how an integrative approach to the evaluation of innovations, from proof of concept to the measurement of efficiency, is essential to the optimization of care practices, the good management of financial resources in an ever more constrained context and the guarantee of social equity. On the North Caen plateau there is recognized expertise in the fields of neuroscience and oncology through international level research teams, approved by major national organizations (CNRS, INSERM, CEA), supported by cutting-edge regional infrastructures (CYCERON - IBISA platform in in vivo imaging -, CURB - IBISA platform in research on strokes (ESRP) -, SFR ICORE technical platforms), on remarkable coverage of the territory by morbidity registers; all in close relations with health centers (Caen University Hospital and Center François Baclesse). Innov@ReT is part of the more global INNOVONS project which will allow the consolidation of a coherent whole promoting pre-clinical and clinical investigations in the field of screening and functional explorations in neurology, oncology and cardiology. Innov@ReT focuses on the translational aspect of research ranging from cell biology to imaging in humans. This new tool will benefit existing and future EPST structures and the University's reception teams. In addition to providing these research units with the tools for their development and their interface with the clinic, it would be the place for common methodological developments.
Smarter Europe / Research and innovation / Research and innovation activities in public research centres and centres of competence including networking