Three UCD-AH selected for their research projects

The Decade strategy for supportive care, encourages the development of research, in particular by offering positions each year for university clinical leaders - hospital assistants (CCU-AH) in palliative medicine.

A fourth call for applications was launched in 2025 and, as in previous years, the National Platform for End-of-Life Research contributed to the selection of candidates. Three winners were selected.

Marion CLAES proposed a project entitled Early palliative care and progressive neurocognitive diseases. Its aim is to assess the palliative care needs of young subjects suffering from progressive neurocognitive diseases, and to develop an early care and support offer for these patients and their relatives. This project will be carried out under the responsibility of Vianney MOURMAN in the mobile palliative care team at Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) and at the Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations, UMR 1018 Université Paris Cité.

Élise RAMBAUD will set up a prospective interventional cohort study (ESOP "Et si on en parlait") to identify patients with advanced cancer who have taken up a proposal for "discussions dedicated to anticipating preferences in the event of worsening". This study seeks to identify the subjective and intersubjective factors involved in a patient's involvement in a process of anticipating aggravation. This project is led by Pascale VINANT at Hôpital Cochin - Port Royal in conjunction with Université Paris Cité.

Victoire DE SALINS is seeking to structure university research in palliative medicine rooted in geriatric practices, in connection with end-of-life issues. Her GER-PAL project combines geriatric and palliative medicine approaches in an innovative study of the determinants of interprofessional collaboration. It aims to gain a better understanding of the obstacles to integrating palliative care in geriatrics, and to propose concrete avenues for improving practices and training. It is supervised by Laure SERRESSE, and conducted at Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière in conjunction with the Institut Pierre Louis d'Épidémiologie et de santé publique (IPLESP) and Sorbonne Université.

These three prizewinners took up their positions on November 1, 2025.

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