SouthROCK is all about sharing and mutualizing: expertise, samples, models, tools, data… you name it. This way all the participating teams can lift each other up 💪🏻

Eddy Pasquier 🧪🇫🇷🇦🇺@eddpasquier.bsky.social · last yr.

We brought fluorescence-labeled #DIPG cells from @crcl-research.bsky.social this week. This will allow us to switch some of our experiments from endpoint to longitudinal follow-up. Thanks to @southrock.bsky.social, we can now circulate all our samples from Lyon to Marseille and vice versa. So cool!

Two teams from Lyon & two teams from Marseille working together to improve the outcome of childhood cancer patients: it doesn’t get more SouthROCK than this! @crcl-research.bsky.social @crcm.bsky.social @marionlegrand.bsky.social @marie-castets.bsky.social @eddpasquier.bsky.social

Eddy Pasquier 🧪🇫🇷🇦🇺@eddpasquier.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our collabs are the best! Headed by Laura Broutier from CRCL & funded by INCa, this collaborative project uses patient-derived tumoroids, drug screening and mathematical modeling to develop more effective treatments for #Rhabdomyosarcoma. This is so @southrock.bsky.social 🤩

NEW EQUIPMENT JUST DROPPED! Thanks to @southrock.bsky.social, we will upgrade the HiTS drug screening platform of @crcm.bsky.social with several devices. Today, we installed a ViaFlo (INTEGRA), which will offer flexibility for our drug screening on 3D models, especially patient-derived tumoroids.

Yesterday, we held one of our regular steering committee meetings with all the clinicians and researchers in charge of our scientific program. The occasion to reflect on our first year of existence and prioritize our actions for year 2. Watch this space in 2025!

The Marseille research community stood up for Science today. Members of SouthROCK joined in to protest against the ongoing dismantlement of academic research and harassment of scientists in the US and around the world.

Christophe 🔬 Leterrier@christlet.bsky.social · 2y ago

More white coats, less white robes! @eddpasquier.bsky.social #standupforscience #standupforscience2025

I hope there will be hundreds of marches around the world to stand up for science tomorrow. Let’s show these monsters, we won’t let them destroy Science. Killing research is killing hope.

Today, all 3 centers of excellence in pediatric oncology research were invited by INCa to present what they have been up to during their first year of existence. We were delighted to showcase everything we have put in place, including our beloved #RockBands, ongoing and upcoming projects.

Last but not least, the 9th #RockBand is everything cancer metabolism. From defining metabolic vulnerabilities in pediatric cancers, the impact of metabolic inhibitors on developmental pathways and the slightly reverse impact of developmental alterations on cell metabolism. 1/2

« In their eyes » Our second Humanities & Social Sciences #RockBand will focus on cancer perception, as well as action and reaction in the face of #ChildhoodCancer. It will notably question public engagement of cancer researchers and clinicians 1/2

Introducing our first Humanities & Social Sciences #RockBand, the Talking Minds. This band aims at improving the means of communication between patients & their families on one hand, and clinicians & scientists on the other. 1/2

How do you break the century-old frontier between medical #Hematology and #Oncology? In our Centre of Excellence we will try to break barriers and build true transdisciplinary projects to improve the care and prevention in pediatric oncology. For that, we created the #RockBand « Crossroads ». 1/2

Time to introduce our 5th #RockBand. An hommage to the legendary Doors, this 20-piece band will focus on critical Windows of susceptibility during pregnancy and early childhood, pre-disposition factors, the notion of clusters, the prediction of long-term sequelae & prevention 1/2

🚨 We are hiring! We are looking for motivated bioinformatician to join our team “Genomics and Development of Childhood Cancers" at Institut Curie, Paris, France. The interested candidates should apply by sending an email with their CV and motivation letter

Another day, another RockBand 🤘🏻 Now that @cedricmaurange.bsky.social is here we can introduce the Comets, the band he co-directs with Laura Broutier. This band is for the lovers of cell fate and trajectories. 1/2

To celebrate the arrival of @delloye-bourgeois.bsky.social on BlueSky, let’s introduce our 3rd RockBand that she co-directs with Virginie Marcel: Rage against the Mesenchyma is obviously an hommage to the legendary metal band that was really upset with their printer. 1/2

Introducing our second #RockBand: the BEATLS, as in Brainstorming for the Elaboration of Ancillary and Translational Studies. As its acronym indicates this band is in charge of everything translational in our Center: turning fundamental discoveries into novel therapeutic opportunities.

SouthROCK@southrock.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our center of excellence in pediatric oncology research gathers close to 250 clinicians, scientists and students working together to improve the care and prevention of #ChildhoodCancers. To structure ourselves, we have opted for the creation of 9 #RockBands with specific missions. #Medsky

Introducing our first #RockBand Entirely dedicated to studying the impact of adapted physical activity (APA) throughout life, the #RunningStones is made of pediatric oncologists and muscle biologists. Together they will define how APA can improve muscle health and treatment tolerance.

SouthROCK@southrock.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our center of excellence in pediatric oncology research gathers close to 250 clinicians, scientists and students working together to improve the care and prevention of #ChildhoodCancers. To structure ourselves, we have opted for the creation of 9 #RockBands with specific missions. #Medsky

Our center of excellence in pediatric oncology research gathers close to 250 clinicians, scientists and students working together to improve the care and prevention of #ChildhoodCancers. To structure ourselves, we have opted for the creation of 9 #RockBands with specific missions. #Medsky

SouthROCK is all about collaborations. Collaborations between Lyon and Marseille, between clinicians and biologists, between disciplines… This is why we mostly had presentations from duos of scientists (and even trios and quatuors!) over the past two days. It was lots of fun and inspiring

Start of Day 2 of our annual seminar. Xavier Morelli and Carine Halfon-Domenech kick off the “Emerging projects” session with their collaboration on the evaluation of DCK inhibitors in pediatric acute lymphoblastic #leukemia. One of the 5 projects funded in our first round of research grants

First up, @marionlegrand.bsky.social and @rafajarguello.bsky.social present their collaborative project studying the metabolic heterogeneity of #Neuroblastoma, recently funded by the national cancer institute (INCa)

For the next 2 days, the clinicians and scientists of #SouthROCK are all gathered in Marseille at the “Palais du Pharo” for our first annual seminar. We will discuss ongoing and upcoming collaborative projects that form the basis of our center of Excellence. Transdisciplinarity is key

This is it! We are officially and effectively launched !!! All the key pediatric oncologists, researchers and patient families gathered in Lyon for the official kick-off meeting of SouthROCK. So many great research projects will emerge in the coming months. We can’t wait to get cracking !!

Very excited to see our Research Center of Excellence in Pediatric Oncology being selected among the 3 Centers that will be created in France in 2024. We will focus on the developmental alterations of pediatric cancers in order to improve the care and prevention of childhood cancers.

CRCM@crcm.bsky.social · 3y ago

🌟 Exciting news in #PediatricOncology! 🌟 South-ROCK, a Lyon-Marseille research center of Excellence, has received 6M from Institut national du cancer to improve the care and prevention of pediatric cancers.Stay tuned for crucial advancements! 🚀 #SouthROCK www.crcm-marseille.fr/en/news/crcm...