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🧪 Quand la science devient une aventure… direction le CEPR !🔬

À l’occasion de la Fête de la Science 2026, nous avons eu le plaisir d’accueillir une classe de 3e du Collège de la Vallée Violette à Joué-lès-Tours, accompagnée de leur professeur de SVT, pour une expérience un peu particulière… 👀 🧩 Un escape-game immersif au cœur de notre laboratoire de recherche ! Pendant cette immersion, les élèves ont dû faire appel à leur curiosité, leur esprit d’équipe et leurs connaissances scientifiques pour trouver le traitement adapté et sauver notre patient ! 🔎 Une belle façon de découvrir autrement les coulisses de la recherche scientifique, de se familiariser avec notre environnement de travail et, peut-être, de susciter quelques vocations ! 💡 Un grand merci aux élèves pour leur enthousiasme et leur participation, ainsi qu’à leur professeur de SVT pour avoir accompagné cette belle découverte. 🙏 Parce que la médiation scientifique, c’est aussi donner envie de comprendre la Science, de la questionner… et de l’explorer ! ❤️🔬 #FDS2026 #CultureScientifique Inserm, Université de Tours, Centre•Sciences

prix de la meilleure présentation poster

🏆Une belle reconnaissance pour l’une de nos chercheuses ! Noémie Alphonse a reçu le prix de la meilleure présentation poster lors de la 7th International Conference on Innate Immune Memory ! 🎉 Cette distinction vient saluer la qualité de son travail et ses recherches autour des mécanismes de la mémoire immunitaire innée, un domaine de recherche particulièrement passionnant et en pleine évolution. 🧪 Ce congrès a également été une belle occasion pour elle de rencontrer des chercheurs et chercheuses venus du monde entier, d’échanger autour des dernières avancées scientifiques et de partager les résultats de nos travaux. 🔬 👏 Félicitations à elle pour cette belle reconnaissance ! Et un grand merci aux organisateurs de cette 7e édition pour la qualité de l’événement et pour avoir contribué à faire de ce congrès un lieu privilégié d’échanges et de partage scientifique.

New Article in CCLM

🩸 Are we taking too much blood from our patients? A new international reflection on sample volume management highlights an often overlooked issue: diagnostic blood loss. 📌 Hospital-acquired anemia affects up to 90% of ICU patients.📌 ICU patients may lose 750–950 mL of blood during a hospitalization through diagnostic sampling.📌 Routine blood collection can use ~45 times more blood than the laboratory actually needs.📌 In the Netherlands alone, around 500,000 L of blood are discarded every year. Patient Blood Management is not only about transfusion. Preserving the patient’s own blood is also an ethical, economic and environmental responsibility. A thought-provoking article from an international group, involving Pr. Antoine Guillon from CEPRLab, working on this issue: 📖 Read the full article here:https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/cclm-2026-1125/html

CEPR invites you to take part in a science escape game on 5 October 2026!

It’s Science Day at CEPR! CEPR invites you to take part in a science escape game on 5 October 2026! Come and discover the world of research and its mysteries in a real laboratory. Your mission: Investigate a mysterious disease and find a cure! Registration is required by telephone on 02 47 36 60 49 or by email at secretariat.cepr@univ-tours.fr ! See you on 5 October for 1-hour sessions between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. at 10 Boulevard Tonnellé in ToursOn the forecourt of the Faculty of Medicine

New publication in Scientific Reports

📢 Excited to share our latest publication in Scientific Reports! Our study highlights a key but often overlooked factor in cancer immunotherapy: the route of administration. Using preclinical models of lung cancer, we show that delivering immunomodulatory agents directly to the airways can: ✅ Reduce systemic inflammation and toxicity compared with intravenous administration ✅Enhance local anti-tumor immune responses ✅ Increase infiltration of effector T cells in the lungs ✅ Improve tumor control These findings support the development of locally delivered immunotherapies as a promising strategy to improve the efficacy and safety of lung cancer treatments. A big thank you to all co-authors from CEPR INSERM Lab and collaborators who contributed to this work! 🙏 📖 Read the full article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-58254-y #LungCancer #Immunotherapy #DrugDelivery #Immunology #ScientificReports Inserm Grand Ouest Université de Tours CHRU de Tours

MINIRAD project – interregional PHRC 

🎉We are pleased to announce that our MINIRAD project has been selected for funding under the 2025-2026 interregional PHRC (Hospital Clinical Research Program). 🔬 This multicenter project, entitled « Radial endoscopic ultrasound miniprobe as a first-line strategy for the diagnosis of pulmonary nodules and masses with bronchial signs: an open-label, randomized superiority trial, » aims to evaluate an innovative diagnostic strategy in pulmonology. 🎯 The objective is twofold: to improve diagnostic performance while enhancing patient safety, notably through an expected reduction in the risk of pneumothorax during diagnostic procedures. 🙏  Many thanks to all the investigators, partners, and research support teams who contributed to the development of this project. Congratulations to Laurent Plantier for his coordination.

New Article in FEBS Journal

I’m very pleased to share with you the recent publication of our article in FEBS Journal. https://lnkd.in/dAxA5SPf Haddou S, David A, Lipinski O, Puertas RD, Maroteaux A, Le Goff C, Moali C, Lecaille F, Duca L. Assembly and remodeling of collagen and elastic fibers in pathophysiology: Proteases have the final cut. FEBS J. 2026 May 29. Special thanks to all the authors of this review: #SabrinaHaddou, #AlexisDavid, #OskarLipinski , #RosaDoñatePuertas, #AgatheMaroteaux, #CarineLeGoff , #CatherineMoali, #FabienLecaille, and #LaurentDuca Congratulations as well to all the partners/supports involved in this project:• Team Proteolytic enzymes and their pharmacological targeting in lung diseases, Research Center for Respiratory Diseases (#CEPR), INSERM, UMR1100, University of Tours, France• Extracellular Matrix and Cell Dynamics (#MEDyC), CNRS UMR7369, University Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France• Tissue Biology and Therapeutic Engineering (#LBTI), CNRS UMR5305, University Claude Bernard Lyon I, France• #LVTS, INSERM U1148, Université Paris Cité et Université Sorbonne Paris nord, France• #SFBMEC (Société Française de la Biologie de la Matrice Extracellulaire)• #CancéropoleGrandOuest (#RéseauMoléculesmarinesmétabolismecancer)-

Decision-making for ICU admission: is there a place for AI?

😊 We are pleased to share a recent article co-authored by Antoine Guillon, published in BMC Medical Ethics. 🔍 This study explores a key question in critical care: can artificial intelligence support ICU admission decisions?Through qualitative interviews with intensivists, the authors highlight the complexity, subjectivity, and ethical dimensions of these decisions, while shedding light on both the potential and the limits of AI in this context ! 💡 A thought-provoking contribution at the intersection of medicine, ethics, and innovation. 👉 Read the article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12910-026-01454-y

❓How can we better quantify the host response during sepsis?

😊 Very proud to share our new article published in the prestigious The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal! 🎓 In this work, we developed a parsimonious machine-learning tool to define and quantify immune dysregulation, supporting a more biologically informed approach to immunomodulation.This approach has the potential to improve prognostication, enhance the evaluation of treatment responses, and identify patients most likely to benefit from targeted immunomodulatory therapies. CEPR INSERM LabUniversité de ToursInserm Grand Ouesthashtag#immunomodulation hashtag#machine-learning hashtag#clinical data https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213260025004291