Research is essential to progress in healthcare. Researchers need to find new means for understanding certain diseases better and treating them more effectively.
Before offering these new means to everyone concerned, we have to be sure that they are really effective and well tolerated. The last stage in this biomedical research has to be conducted in humans, which requires the participation of volunteers.
Specifications, known as the 'protocol', describe and define the entire sequence of a biomedical research study in precise detail. The protocol lays down the objectives of the study, the evaluation criteria, the practical modalities of running the study, the risks and the constraints connected with the research, all within a strict regulatory framework. In order to guarantee the safety of the subjects, the protocol is reviewed and evaluated by an ethics committee and by the French Agency for the Safety of Health Products (AFSSAPS) and may only start once approval from these two bodies has been granted. The study is conducted under the responsibility of teams of doctors, called investigators, and scientists.
All the data collected during a research study are anonymous. Your taking part in our studies will be recorded in the "National file of people volunteering for biomedical research studies with no direct individual benefit." This file, managed by the Ministry of Health, is confidential and does not show the identity of the people concerned.
Would you like to contribute to our clinical research programme?
We regularly contact healthy volunteers or patients to ask them to participate in our studies.
Register now by filling in our form on line.
Male and female volunteers (women must not be pregnant), aged over 18 years, who can accept images being made of all or part of their bodies and/or sensors being placed on the skin according to the standard clinical technique then according to the technique defined by the protocol research.
The examination lasts about 1 hour and does not involve any injections, X rays or radioactive substances. We work with a magnetic resonance imager (MRI) used in the course of normal medical care in the Nancy teaching hospitals.
We need you in order to validate these innovative methods which will help make medical diagnosis easier and even more reliable.
