Two PhD students receive awards at the Epiclin-JSCLCC 2026 conference

At the Epiclin JSCLCC conference last May, two of our PhD students received academic awards.
Léa Faure, representing the LEHA and BIOSTAT teams, received the award for best poster for her PhD research on potentially inappropriate prescriptions among elderly dialysis patients, whilst Thomas Ferté, from the SISTM team, won the award for best oral presentation for his talk on lessons learned from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Organized last year in Bordeaux, the 2026 edition of the Francophone Conference on Clinical Epidemiology and the Cancer Control Centres’ Statisticians’ Days (Epiclin – JSCLCC) took place from 20 to 22 May at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Montpellier.

This event, organised in partnership with Inserm, the national clinical epidemiology research network, the Association of French-speaking Epidemiologists and the network of CLCC statisticians, and supported by F-CRIN, brings together researchers and experts in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics applied to biomedical research.

This year, five prizes were awarded by the jury, under the supervision of the scientific committee, of which some of our researchers are members.

Among these prizes was the award for the best oral presentation, won by Thomas Ferté from the SISTM team, as well as the award for the best poster, for which Léa Faure, a PhD student in the LEHA and BIOSTAT teams at the BPH, took first place.

During the event, Thomas discussed epidemic forecasting through his presentation on lessons learnt from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, focusing on how to balance accuracy, feasibility and impact.

Léa presented her research on the concomitant use of benzodiazepines and related drugs in elderly dialysis patients: impact on mortality and hospitalisations. Her research has already highlighted that the concomitant use of two or more benzodiazepines significantly increases the risk of mortality and fracture in elderly dialysis patients, who are already vulnerable due to severe comorbidities.

To find out more about her work, Léa Faure will be speaking in the third episode of our podcast on chronic kidney disease, available as a video on YouTube and as an audio file on SoundCloud.

Congratulations to both of you!