Jean-Sebastien Frenel: Grateful to French National Cancer Institute for Supporting SMART-EC

Jean-Sebastien Frenel: Grateful to French National Cancer Institute for Supporting SMART-EC

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:

  1.  CAUCACCE – Caroline Houillier (AP-HP)
  2.  EsPhALL2022/AALL2131 – Virginie Gandemer (CHU de Rennes)
  3.  RIO – Sophie Dugast (CHU de Nantes)
  4.  SMART-EC – Jean-Sebastien FRENEL (Institut de Cancérologie de l’Ouest – ICO)
  5.  EV-D – Cedric Pobel (Unicancer – Gustave Roussy)
  6.  MATVAC-1 – Olivier Adotevi (Besançon University Hospital)
  7.  HyPORT-01 – Gilles Créhange (Institut Curie)
  8.  CLOSEorUP – Cecile LOAEC (Institut de Cancérologie de l’Ouest – ICO)
  9.  UMBRELLA-THYME – Nicolas Girard (Institut Curie)
  10.  PARADE – Corentin Orvain (CHU d’Angers )
  11.  MARCH – Olivier Riou (Unicancer – ICM Montpellier)
  12.  SOLARy – Eve Piekarski (AP-HP)
  13.  LOTUS – Alejandra Martinez (Claudius Regaud Institute – IUCT-Oncopole)
  14.  HER2low-Strategy – Benjamin Verret (Unicancer – Gustave Roussy)
  15.  ACIKARE – Laurent MORTIER (Lille University Hospital)
  16.  NEOLDER – Etienne BRAIN (Unicancer – Institut Curie)
  17.  INTENSE-T4 – Vahan Képénékian (Hospices Civils de Lyon)
  18.  ForInfantBB2 – Jean-Hugues Dalle (AP-HP)
  19.  B2-ALK – David Sibon (AP-HP)
  20.  INLIM – Caroline Knebelman-Robert (Gustave Roussy)
  21.  GASTRINIP – smolenschi cristina (Unicancer – Gustave Roussy)
  22.  HEROES-2 – Thibault de la Motte Rouge (Unicancer – Centre Eugène Marquis)
  23.  FOCUS-SBRT – Mario Terlizzi (Unicancer – Gustave Roussy)
  24.  MOTIVATE – Caroline EVEN (Unicancer – Gustave Roussy)
  25.  TOCISARC – Jean-Yves Blay (Léon Bérard Centre)
  26.  OPTIFU – Karim Bensalah (Rennes University Hospital)
  27.  STRONG – Jean-Michel Lemée (Angers University Hospital)
  28.  ALABATRE – Antoine Brouquet Greater Paris University Hospitals – AP-HP
  29.  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

Jean-Sebastien Frenel

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