Jean-Sebastien Frenel, Professor of Clinical Oncology at the Faculty of Medicine in Nantes University, shared French National Cancer Institute’s post on LinkedIn, adding:
“Thank you to French National Cancer Institute for this support, to the whole team ARCAGY-GINECO for this project resulting from our first brainstorming in 2025 and Institut de Cancérologie de l’Ouest (ICO) for the development and future implementation of this project.
Project co-sponsored with Julien Peron!”
Quoting French National Cancer Institute’s post:
“Results of the PHRC-K 2025-2026 call for projects: innovative clinical projects to improve cancer care
The Institut national du cancer announces the results of the call for projects of the Hospital Clinical Research Program in Cancer (PHRC-K), which funds clinical studies aimed at:
- Measure the effectiveness of health technologies,
- Assess their safety, tolerability and feasibility in humans.
In line with the ten-year strategy for the fight against cancer 2021-2030, this call for proposals pays particular attention to therapeutic de-escalation projects, in order to reduce the toxicity of treatments and limit the after-effects in the medium and long term, while preserving their effectiveness.
This year, 29 projects led by university hospitals, cancer centers and AP-HP throughout the country will be funded.
Congratulations to the winning teams and their partners for their commitment:
- CAUCACCE – Caroline Houillier (AP-HP)
- EsPhALL2022/AALL2131 – Virginie Gandemer (CHU de Rennes)
- RIO – Sophie Dugast (CHU de Nantes)
- SMART-EC – Jean-Sebastien FRENEL (Institut de Cancérologie de l’Ouest – ICO)
- EV-D – Cedric Pobel (Unicancer – Gustave Roussy)
- MATVAC-1 – Olivier Adotevi (Besançon University Hospital)
- HyPORT-01 – Gilles Créhange (Institut Curie)
- CLOSEorUP – Cecile LOAEC (Institut de Cancérologie de l’Ouest – ICO)
- UMBRELLA-THYME – Nicolas Girard (Institut Curie)
- PARADE – Corentin Orvain (CHU d’Angers )
- MARCH – Olivier Riou (Unicancer – ICM Montpellier)
- SOLARy – Eve Piekarski (AP-HP)
- LOTUS – Alejandra Martinez (Claudius Regaud Institute – IUCT-Oncopole)
- HER2low-Strategy – Benjamin Verret (Unicancer – Gustave Roussy)
- ACIKARE – Laurent MORTIER (Lille University Hospital)
- NEOLDER – Etienne BRAIN (Unicancer – Institut Curie)
- INTENSE-T4 – Vahan Képénékian (Hospices Civils de Lyon)
- ForInfantBB2 – Jean-Hugues Dalle (AP-HP)
- B2-ALK – David Sibon (AP-HP)
- INLIM – Caroline Knebelman-Robert (Gustave Roussy)
- GASTRINIP – smolenschi cristina (Unicancer – Gustave Roussy)
- HEROES-2 – Thibault de la Motte Rouge (Unicancer – Centre Eugène Marquis)
- FOCUS-SBRT – Mario Terlizzi (Unicancer – Gustave Roussy)
- MOTIVATE – Caroline EVEN (Unicancer – Gustave Roussy)
- TOCISARC – Jean-Yves Blay (Léon Bérard Centre)
- OPTIFU – Karim Bensalah (Rennes University Hospital)
- STRONG – Jean-Michel Lemée (Angers University Hospital)
- ALABATRE – Antoine Brouquet Greater Paris University Hospitals – AP-HP
- PREVENCE – Léa Guerrini-Rousseau (Gustave Roussy)
Find the details of the call for projects and all the results here
A program led by the INCa in connection with the Direction générale de l’offre de soins (DGOS) and the Ministère de la Santé”

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