Flagship fields of research in line
with the region's cutting-edge facilities

CANCER

Adebag works in close partnership with the Lyon Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cancer Centre and the Thematic Research and Care Network (RTRS) Synergie Lyon Cancer.

The Lyon Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cancer Centre (CLARA)

The Lyon Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cancer Centre (CLARA) is a network of research teams, institutions and businesses involved in fundamental, clinical and cross-discipline research in the field of cancer.

The objective of this network is to encourage innovative research projects, with a perspective to being able to clinically apply the results obtained from fundamental research, and to situate the region as a European reference site in the field of cancer diagnosis and therapy.

CLARA's scientific strategy for the period 2007-2010 is based around six key research avenues which unite the research projects:

• Nanotechnology, Imaging and Cancer;
• Infections and Cancer;
• Nutrition and Cancer;
• Epidemiology of Cancer, Human and Social Sciences, Patient Education and Organisation of Care;
• Therapeutic Targeting, Modelling and Clinical Research;
• Tumour Escape.

In parallel, the Cancer Centre has launched a programme to organise the different research activities by pathology. The first pathological networks to be set up concern cross-discipline neuro-oncology, neuroendocrine tumours, paediatric oncohaematology and ovarian tumours.

Via a proof-of-concept project support fund, CLARA contributes to the development of public and private partnerships in the fields of innovation and technology transfer in oncology. The fund targets research projects with strong medical and industrial potential that businesses would be ready to take up in the knowledge that they could count on the scientific and technological support of the academic world in order to carry out the necessary animal or human trials (for preclinical or clinical proof of concept).

General Delegate: Peter Pauwels 
Contact: jparry@canceropole-clara.com
www.canceropole-lara.com

Thematic Research and Care Network (RTRS)
Synergie Lyon Cancer

Lead by the Lyon Public Hospices, the Leon Bérard regional centre, the Claude Bernard (Lyon 1) University and the INSERM, the Synergie Lyon Cancer RTRS * works alongside the scientific and industrial capacities which form the Lyon Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cancer Centre.
Selected from a shortlist of 9 certified projects, its objective is to generate investment and extra employment in clinical research with a focus on the treatment of certain cancers (lymphomas, sarcomas, breast cancers, neuroblastomas and digestive tumours).

(*) Thematic Research and Care Networks ( RTRSs) work to build links between research and care teams in the objective of bringing together a critical body of internationally renowned researchers and doctors united around a common scientific and medical objective.

Contact: Alain Puisieux, Translationnelle Recsearch Laboratory, Unité INSERM 590
Centre Leon Bérard
puisieux@lyon.fnclcc.fr