This is the reason why the Teaching Hospital Research Council to make an assessment of our present situation by identifying our main topics of research so as to record these elements in this document which is to be regularly brought up to date. Thus, anyone willing to form an opinion will be able to do it. The different laboratories have a common methodological approach, that is to say studying a cell considered individually and being part of a multicellular community. Most of the labs composing this topic have set up close collaboration with clinical services. This topic associates a university group and clinical services.
Cardiovascular diseases represent the most important cause of mortality in industrialised countries.
Digestive physiopathology aiming at studying digestive motivity. This topic gets together teams of fundamental research and clinical research whose activity is devoted to the study of central nervous system. These teams mainly focus on the understanding of the degeneracy process concerning the nervous system as well as the process which are responsible for psychiatric phenomena such as schizophrenia or certain drug-addiction. A team working on neuro-endocrinian, gonadotrop and surrenalian topics belongs to that topic. The different fundamental and clinical team in this topic have established collaboration founded on the regrouping of methodological and experimental approaches.