IRCAN - Institute for research on cancer and ageing, Nice

Type: Research unit evaluation report

Evaluation campaign: 2016-2017 (group C) - Published on: 18/07/2017

Institution(s) concerned: Université Nice Sophia Antipolis , Centre national de la recherche scientifique - CNRS , Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale - INSERM

Disciplinary research field: Life and Earth Sciences (SVE) ; SVE5 Physiology, Physiopathology, Cardiology, Pharmacology, Enocrinology, Cancer, Medical Technologies ; SVE2 Cellular Biology, Imaging, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genomics, Systemic Biology, Development, Structural Biology

Scientific field(s): 5 - Biologie, medecine et santé

ERC panel(s): LS1 Molecular and Structural Biology and Biochemistry: molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology, biochemistry of signal transduction ; LS3 Cellular and Developmental Biology: cell biology, cell physiology, signal transduction, organogenesis, developmental genetics, pattern formation in plants and animals ; LS5 Neurosciences and neural disorders: neurobiology, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, neuropharmacology, neuroimaging, systems neuroscience, neurological disorders, psychiatry ; LS4 Physiology, Pathophysiology and Endocrinology: organ physiology, pathophysiology, endocrinology, metabolism, ageing, regeneration, tumorigenesis, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome ; LS7 Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health: aetiology, diagnosis and treatment of disease, public health, epidemiology, pharmacology, clinical medicine, regenerative medicine, medical ethics

Name of unit teams: Telomere, senescence and cancer ; Retrotransposons and genome plasticity ; Genetics of mitochondrial diseases ; Circulating tumor cells and lung tumor progression ; Epithelial homeostasis and tumorigenesis ; Normal and pathological angiogenesis (+ hypoxia and cancer metabolism) ; Genetics and physiopathology of epithelial cancers ; Genetics of solid tumors ; Embryogenesis, regeneration and aging ; Population genomics and complex traits ; Telomerase and adult stem cell homeostasis ; Transcription specificity ; DNA damage response and oncogenesis ; Tumor-stroma interactions ; Telomere shortening in cancer and ageing ; Administration, Services communs et Plateformes

Keywords: Cancer ; Vieillissement ; Signalisation ; SVE6 ; SVE3