Humanities and Social Sciences Reseach Area of the SIRIC-Curamus

Cancer United Research Associating Medicine, University & Society (Curamus) is one of eight integrated cancer research centres (SiRIC) accredited in 2018 by the French National Cancer Institute (INCa).

It is supported by the AP-HP university hospital group and Sorbonne University (Pitié Salpêtrière, Saint-Antoine, Tenon, Trousseau, Rothschild, Charles Foix, La Roche-Guyon) and by the three faculties of Health Sciences, Science and Engineering, and Arts at Sorbonne University under the umbrella of the University Cancer Institute (IUC), in association with their institutional partners, Inserm and CNRS.

Objectives et programmes

Its objective is to bring together and promote synergy among its multidisciplinary teams within the AP-HP Sorbonne University hospital group in order to accelerate research and innovation in oncology and improve patient care. The SiRIC CURAMUS integrated research project is structured around three programmes, supported across the board by Medical Humanities:

• neuro-oncology;
• rare immuno-haematological cancers;
• cancers with microsatellite instability.

Medical Humanities

The cross-disciplinary Medical Humanities programme is coordinated by Prof. Karine Berthelot-Guiet. This multidisciplinary programme brings together philosophers, sociologists and researchers in information and communication sciences, whose objective is to offer:

• Critical reflections on concepts that play a prominent role in the SiRIC project, such as “health democracy” and “expert patients”; “rare cancers”; “cure”; and “predictive” or “personalised” medicine.
• A multidisciplinary approach to the meaning, understanding and use of these concepts, in order to shed light on the role they play and their various implications.

For more information, please visit the Siric Curamus website.