This axis will bring together researchers who intend to participate in a multidisciplinary approach to the child's body apprehended in a continuum (before and after birth) through situations of par
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Several researchers in Axis 1 have in common that they question the social norms and representations related to pregnancy and birth.
This project will pool anthropological, medical and philosophical skills that will be exercised on the basis of clinical and scientific knowledge provided by geriatric professionals. It will focus on the phenomenon of aging in its many dimensions as a physiological process, an experience lived in relation to specific contexts
This project is led by Julie Di Cristofaro (PhD, HDR, CR EFS), Christophe Picard, (MD, PhD, HDR, EFS) and Pascal Pedini (PharmD, PhD, EFS), it benefits from many collaborations, including that with the team of Pr Pascal Chanez (APHM, INSERM, C2VN).
Based on the data from the previous project, the main objective of this project is to define the biomarkers particularly involved in the phenomena of tolerance, inflammation and rejection in order to improve the diagnostic and therapeutic management of transfused, grafted or transplanted patients as well as their donor selection.
The immunological safety of transfusions is based, among other things, on the compatibility of erythrocyte blood groups. Today there are about 380 different antigens in 44 systems. More than half of them are considered rare, i.e. their frequency in the general population is less than 4/1000.