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“Give meaning to your job: join health research!” »: Launch of Inserm’s 2021 recruitment campaign | Press room

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In 2021, Inserm chose to put its employees in the spotlight through a colorful and dynamic digital communication campaign. Credits: © Inserm; photos: © François Guénet Lawyers, biologists, computer scientists, statisticians or even managers: give meaning to your profession by joining Inserm! The first public body entirely dedicated to human health research is launching its … Read more

Covid-19: “maybe a vaccine in the first quarter of 2021”

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The French government has set up a vaccine committee to advise it on current projects. Between changes and political issues, its president, Marie-Paule Kieny, research director at Inserm, takes stock of Release on research into a vaccine against Covid-19. Do you think, as Emmanuel Macron said this week, that “We have perspectives […] reasonable to … Read more

Coronavirus: the scientist and the after

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The era is paradoxical. With the coronavirus crisis, there has probably never been more talk of science in the media than in political discourse. The rate of reproduction, the cytokine storm, the protective antibodies are in everyone’s mouth. And yet the streak is not a triumph of reason. We feel like a bitter aftertaste in … Read more

Has Professor Raoult’s team circumvented the compulsory opinion of a personal protection committee?

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Question asked by Tsarorius on 05/04/2020 Hello, You are asking us about a controversy that arose in April from the presentation of work by researchers at the IHU Méditerranée infection on the effects of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin in people with Covid-19. With this question: did the study follow the procedures relating to patient protection? … Read more

“Understanding the effect of confinement on living conditions”

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Articulate health data and social conditions: since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic in France, no study had been launched to jointly assess the two aspects of the epidemic, and even less on the scale of the whole population. Co-led by sociologist Nathalie Bajos, director of research at Inserm, and Josiane Warszawski, epidemiologist at Inserm, … Read more

Covid-19: a promising treatment for serious patients

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First glimmer of hope on the Cov2 treatment front. While 2,000 patients infected with Cov2 are in France engaged in clinical trials to test the possible benefit of existing drugs or molecules, the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) has just made public, for “ethical reasons “, the preliminary but promising results of a study on … Read more

Coronavirus. INSERM warns against lifting containment without strategy

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Lifting containment without having developed an exit strategy would lead to a second wave of coronavirus epidemic that would overwhelm the health system, according to an Inserm study published on Sunday covering the Ile-de-France region. According to the researchers, who modeled the impact of containment in the region, only intensive research of the carriers of … Read more

Chloroquine, the presumption of antidote – Release

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We only talk about her, we believe strongly. And in this second week of general confinement, while France now has 860 dead (186 more in twenty-four hours) and more than 2,000 patients in intensive care, chloroquine is on the verge of being presented as the miracle cure against the coronavirus, and the grumpy would delay … Read more

“Everyone is fully in hospitals”

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Eric d’Ortenzio is an epidemiologist at Inserm and coordinator of the Reacting network, a multidisciplinary consortium responsible for coordinating research in the face of health crises. For him, the coronavirus epidemic will last. Should France fear an Italian scenario facing the coronavirus? It is clear that we are heading towards a national epidemic and that … Read more

“There will be other epidemics of coronavirus”

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INTERVIEW – The head of the infectious diseases department at Bichat hospital believes that the fight against Covid-19 will allow the development of a vaccine against coronaviruses in general. –“Many people are afraid of vaccines, and that is nonsense. One of the reasons people don’t trust them is that they have been very effective. These … Read more