The Marseille SIRIC, which IPC is part of together with AP

The Marseille SIRIC, which IPC is part of together with AP-HM, supports the emergence of innovative
projects through specific call for proposals. The first call for emerging projects was launched on January 31st
2014 and closed on March 25th 2104. A budget of 200 000€ was devoted to this call to fund innovative
projects in the field of translational research on breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, glioma or leukemia.
15 projects were received and submitted for review by the international scientific advisory board of the
SIRIC and by the scientific committee of the SIRIC, and 5 projects were selected for funding.
Topic
PI
Title
Amount
Breast
cancer
Daniel Olive
Phenotypic and functional
characterization of T lymphocytes T in
breast cancers
30 000 €
Glioma
Eddy Pasquier
Identification de nouvelles cibles
thérapeutiques dans les gliomes de haut
grade en combinant criblage de drogues
et de siRNA à haut débit
50 000 €
Leukemia
Véronique
Gelsi-Boyer
Molecular characterization of M6-AML
50 000 €
Leukemia
Michel Aurrand-
Lions
B-ALL physiopathology
25 000 €
Breast
cancer
Christophe
Ginestier
PAtient-derived tumor xeNografts from
locally aDvanced or metastatic breast
cancer fOR guiding personAlized
treatment (PANDORA)
45 000 €
The 5 awardees will be invited to present their work on the occasion of the next SIRIC symposium.
Another call for emerging projects will be open by the SIRIC in 2015.