Name of department head :
Prof. Alain Didier
Main areas of clinical research :
Lung cancer - screening, early diagnosis, multimodal treatments, immunotherapy, targeted therapy phase 2 and 3; Mesothelioma - reference center, clinical trials; Thymoma - reference center, clinical trials
Translational or fundamental research axis:
Resistance mechanisms in targeted therapy, biomarkers in immunotherapy, liquid biopsies
Affiliated team :
CRCT INSERM UMR1037 Team G. Favre (targeted therapy), Team M. Ayyoub (immunomonitoring) Team S. Valitutti (immunological synapse)
Affiliated CRB:
CRB IUCT oncopole (Dr A. Gomez-Brouchet)
Type of biological samples or cohort available:
Organoides and PDX for oncogenic addiction, tumour tissues (frozen and fixed), serotheque (IMMUNOPREDICT cohort)
Innovative technologies available:
Single cell RNA sequencing, PDX