The next sessions of Open Desk will be held on Thursday July 4 and Thursday July 11. We would remind you that any requests to present projects should be sent by email to crt-opendesk@pasteur.fr.

The Center for Translational Science team would like to inform you that there will be no Open Desk sessions between July 15 and August 16 because of the summer break.

Since January 2017, the Center for Translational Science has been running multidisciplinary Open Desk sessions every Thursday from 3.30 to 4.30pm. Each week you can come along and meet the directors of all the CRT structures (the Clinical and Technical Cores and human bioresources), as well as the Legal Affairs Department and the Ethics Unit.

The aim of this initiative is to provide on-the-spot advice on:

• ethical and regulatory procedures in line with the Jardé Law

• the appropriate methodology for your research (e.g. the number of patients to include, etc.)

• use of cutting-edge techniques

• legal procedures for contracts that need to be drawn up

• any other questions