The launch of the 8th Health Call for Projects by the Department took place yesterday, attended by Professor Bruno Dubois, Director of the Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease Institute at the Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, and Director of INSERM Research Unit at ICM, who serves as the President of the Scientific Committee.
For Eric Ciotti, President of the Departmental Council, the objective of this initiative is to: “promote support for research and the development of excellence in our region.”
As a reminder, the Department has been committed for several years, beyond its mandatory competencies, to a proactive health policy aimed at providing the medical teams and researchers of the Alpes-Maritimes with expanded and modernized material resources.
The 1st Health Call for Projects was launched in November 2005 and was awarded a Gold Marianne in April 2006. Since then, the calls for projects have followed one another, and this year marks the launch of the 8th with the theme “Technical and Technological Innovations in Health in the field of the fight against cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and loss of autonomy.”
Over the past 10 years, 170 proposals have been selected and funded by the Department with a total of 25.3 million euros in credits.
