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The French National Authority for Health (HAS) is developing a methodological guide for assessing the organisational impact of digital medical devices (DMDs) in order to provide a suitable framework for studies carried out by industry and, more broadly, by healthcare professionals, healthcare organisations and other evaluation structures.               Telemonitoring, […]

David-Alexandre Trégouët, co-leader of the BPH-ELEANOR team, is joining the Institute of Cardiogenetics in Lübeck, Germany, as part of an exchange programme.       The Institute of Cardiogenetics in Lübeck (Germany)  is headed by Professor Tanja Zeller and co-directed by Dr Zouhair Aherrahrou. It conducts research into the molecular and genetic mechanisms of cardiovascular […]

This year, the France Alzheimer association is providing financial support for the innovative VILLADEM project ‘Consensus Study on European Alzheimer’s Villages’, led by Jérôme WITTWER, Professor of Economics and Head of the EMOS research area (‘Economics and Management of Healthcare Organisations’) within the PHARes team at the BPH               […]

Carole Dufouil, director of the BPH-PHARes team, is leading the IHU VBHI’s ‘Brain Resilience’ Living Lab project, which was officially launched during the meeting of its strategic board on 22 April 2026. An initiative that could transform the prevention of strokes and dementia in Nouvelle-Aquitaine               Living labs open […]

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing public health challenge, affecting approximately 10% of the global population, and it could become one of the five leading causes of death worldwide by 2040. When the kidneys can no longer perform their vital functions, treatment with dialysis or kidney transplantation becomes necessary.   The F-SWIFT project focuses […]

    In response to the VITISAFE call for projects, the EPICENE team at the BPH has received funding from the Ecophyto plan to be part of a multidisciplinary project. Based on a ‘One Health’ approach, they will be working on the links between pesticides and global health in wine-growing areas         […]

Sarcomas are a rare type of cancer that develops in the connective tissue of organs. We suspect some environmental factors may contribute to their development, but to the present day our understanding of these factors is very limited. To better understand the origin of sarcomas, a research platform called ETIOSARC has recorded data from around […]

The Memento national cohort, which studies Alzheimer’s disease, has been renewed for the period 2025-2029 thanks to a favourable evaluation by the French National Research Agency (ANR) in 2024. This will enable this longitudinal study to be continued in order to gain a deeper understanding of the disease and develop new therapeutic strategies     […]

The HerpBioMA project is exploring the link between Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1) and the brain lesions characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease. This project, based on data from the B cube cohort, aims to understand the early pathophysiological mechanisms at work in Alzheimer’s disease, so that it can be prevented before clinical symptoms appear     […]

  Expertise in global health and “One Health” already exists in France, but is dispersed and not very visible. To remedy this, an initiative bringing together 31 academic organisations has been launched: France One & Global Health (FrOGH). The aim is to make these skills more visible and to optimise the actions carried out in […]

The SISTM team – © Inria / Photo F. Stucin The BPH SISTM team is accredited by both Inria & Inserm The two main objectives of the SISTM team (Statistics in Systems biology and Translationnal Medicine), led by Pr Rodolphe Thiébaut, are: i) to accelerate the development of vaccines by analyzing all the information available […]

Le Projet “Interdisciplinary Policy-Oriented Research on Africa” (IPORA) est un des 7 Grands Projets de Recherche (GPR) de l’Université de Bordeaux. L’accord de consortium a été signé ce mardi 24 janvier 2023 à Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Contact : Ida Viho  – ida.viho@u-bordeaux.fr Le projet IPORA reunit 4 Universités : l’Université de Bordeaux (France), l’Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny d’Abidjan […]

The SHIVA project, coordinated by Professor Stéphanie Debette (BPH, VINTAGE team) and co-coordinated by Prof. Thierry Couffinhal (Inserm U1034), awarded 8.2M€, is one of the winners of the “Hospital-University Research in Health”-call of the French government “Investments for the Future” program to support innovative and large-scale research projects in the field of health. Supported by […]

The TB-Speed International training session took place in Kampala, Uganda from December 3 to 8, 2018. This international training session organized shortly before the start of the first inclusions in the different TB-Speed studies gathered in Kampala more than 80 staffs from the multidisciplinary research coordination team from 8 participating countries (Cameroon, Cambodia, Côte d’Ivoire, […]