The IHU ICAN is supported by a community of nearly 450 researchers and clinicians, and its mission is to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration by decompartmentalising research and promoting links with the economic fabric with a view to translational research.
The IHU ICAN helps the academic community to set up, finance and support excellent scientific and clinical projects.
The ICAN IHU offers its community a wide range of services, including
- A sponsorship department to finance new projects with high added value and to manage relations with donors
- Assistance in setting up projects, with senior scientific project managers:
- Support in structuring projects
- Participation in drafting responses to calls for projects
- Setting up and managing projects
- Legal and regulatory support for projects
- Support in promoting innovations and finding industrial partners for development projects
- Technology platforms:
- ICAN BioCell IPS, with a diversified range of differentiated cells derived from iPS cells (genomically edited or not) and customised services for cell differentiation and genomic editing (isogenic clones).
- ICAN BioCell Human Liver Biology, access to liver tissue (fresh or frozen) taken during biopsies performed on patients with different pathologies and documented aetiologies
- ICAN Omics – Lipidomic and metabolomic analytics for OMICS analysis of human or animal biological samples
- ICAN I/O: a bioinformatics platform for statistical analysis:
- OMICS (metagenomics, lipidomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, genomics, metagenomics) and OMICS integration
- Statistics (descriptive, multivariate)
- Artificial intelligence (machine learning)
- An ICAN Clinical Investigation platform specialising in the recruitment of patients suffering from cardiometabolic and nutritional pathologies, supported by :
- A location at the heart of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital (E3M building)
- An ICAN BioCollection Biological Resource Centre in the immediate vicinity (identification, processing, conservation) – certified ISO 9001 and NF S 96-900
- A dedicated team (clinical research physician, IDE, TEC experts)
- Highly specialised analysis platforms(lipidomics, metabolomics).
- The first MRI platform dedicated to cardiovascular research in the Ile-de-France region, based on :
- World-class medical and scientific expertise (Cardiothoracic Imaging Centre, LIB Laboratory)
- An expert Corelab with proprietary analysis techniques
- Resources for identifying and validating new imaging biomarkers
