A clinical investigation center
The Paris Centre Necker-Cochin CIC was officially created on January 1st 2009. It is a structure dedicated to clinical research for children and pregnant women and working in close collaboration with the Imagine Foundation in which it takes part.
The CIC provides competences required to conduct clinical research in paediatrics, including paediatric experts, competences in pharmacology, methodology, epidemiology, statistics modelisation. Most of The main objective is to create interactions between researchers, paediatricians and pharmaceutical industries to conduct clinical research projects.
The care activity is unique within the Necker-Enfants malades and Cochin-Saint Vincent de Paul hospitals with:
- 4 gynecology-obstetrics units,
- 20 pediatric medicine units,
- 6 pediatric surgery units,
- a unit for teenagers.
All included, it represents 8 000 birth and 600 pediatric and obstetric hospitalisation beds, with a close complementarity between the activities of the Cochin-Saint Vincent de Paul and Necker-Enfants malades hospitals.
Thirty-two rare diseases reference centers have also been created within the two hospitals, and 19 labelled research units devote their activity to development pathologies.
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The mother-child CIC works in close collaboration with the biotherapy CIC, dedicated to gene therapies and directed by Prof. Marina Cavazzana-Calvo, Inserm U943, (Epidemiological research into perinatal health and woman’s health) directed by Prof. Goffinet, as well as the biostatistics services of the Necker (Prof. Landais), Cochin (Prof. Coste) and Hôtel-Dieu (Prof. Ravaud) hospitals. A methodological research about innovative developmental pharmacology is developed inside the CIC and directed by Dr Saik Urien (Inserm Dr) and Prof. Tréluyer. Studies about ethics in pediatric research are also being developed, directed by Dr Chappuy (PHU).
Many cohorts including children or pregnant women are also followed in our CIC.
Structure
The research activity is shared with the Paris Centre Descartes Clinical Research Unit (CRU), structure of the AP-HP Clinical Research Direction.
CIC help at different steps of a clinical research project
About 130 people are working within the global structure and 30 are specifically working for the CIC, allowing it to help the investigators at different phases of their projects : since January 1st 2009, the CIC has in Necker-Enfants malades hospital 4 hospitalisation beds, which enable it to welcome patients in the best security and quality conditions possible.
Teaching
The CIC also has a teaching and training mission. Therefore, the CIC staff takes part in a lot of training activities for clinical research, whether in lectures (medicine and pharmacology schools of the Paris Descartes University), or whether by welcoming students in the structure.
Rapport d’activité 2009 du CIC