Upcoming "Pasteur Medicine Quarter-Hour" on gliomas on June 1

Every month, the Center for Translational Science runs a "Pasteur Medicine Quarter-Hour" session, where two doctors are invited to give a brief presentation to Institut Pasteur scientists on the diseases they are involved in treating. The doctors start by outlining one or more clinical cases, then provide a short description of the disease and conclude by looking at a series of unanswered questions that need to be addressed.

The next session will take place on Tuesday June 1 at 5.30pm, online only via Teams.

Program:

Gliomas in children - Jacques Grill (Gustave Roussy)
Gliomas in adults - Marc Sanson (Pitié Salpetrière Hospital)

Gliomas are brain tumors that can be highly aggressive. They are caused by an abnormal proliferation of cells within the central nervous system such as neural precursors or astrocytes. They can affect all parts of the central nervous system, which they invade quite extensively. What are the characteristics of these cancers? How are they diagnosed and treated? What avenues are currently being investigated by researchers? What are the distinctive features of pediatric gliomas?

Marc Sanson is a neurologist at Pitié Salpetrière Hospital and co-leads the "Genetics and Development of Brain Tumors" unit with Emmanuelle Huillard. The team's objectives are to identify new genetic mutations and biomarkers of brain tumors, as well as to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in their development.

Jacques Grill is a pediatric oncologist at Gustave Roussy, who has led the Brain Tumor program within the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Oncology at Gustave Roussy since 2011. He heads a research unit dedicated exclusively to pediatric gliomas and in particular diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG) and similar tumors.

This Quarter-Hour session is run with Sandrine Etienne-Manneville who jointly leads the Cancer Initiative at the Institut Pasteur with Ludovic Deriano.

Click here to take part in the session