The Race for the Heart

For the sixth time, the French-Speaking Transplantation Society (SFT) is bringing together a team of doctors, surgeons, and nurses specializing in organ transplantation for this race. The team is sponsored by the Norman singer Orelsan.

Regular athletes, triathletes or long-distance runners, they are also doctors, surgeons or nurses, they practice in Caen, Strasbourg, Grenoble, Marseille, Paris, Poitiers, Montpellier, Toulouse and their motto is CREDO: "Running for the RECEIVERS and the GIVERS".

nephrology-transplantation department of the Caen University Hospital : Professor Thierry Lobbedez and Professor Valérie Chatelet , along with Bruno Hurault de Ligny, former head of the transplant department. Running alongside transplant recipients, whom they support daily and with whom they are very close, will be an opportunity to deliver powerful messages to the public: a message of hope to all those awaiting an organ transplant, and a message of reflection to those who are eligible to donate but are unaware of their capacity.

The race:

• 740 km relay race, day and night, from Paris to Les Arcs 1800
• A caravan made up of 15 teams of 14 runners, including one team of transplant recipients (heart, lung, liver, kidney, bone marrow)
• Approximately one hundred vehicles passing through 250 municipalities.

A big thank you to all the other supporters of the team: Christophe Dumarest , Alexis and Félix Lebrun, Mathieu Blin , Jonathan Zaccaï and Elodie Hesme , Niko Aliagas , Karim Dridi , the association les RUBIES Toulousaines and the association femmes du Rugby.

In 2022 at the Caen Normandy University Hospital there were:

149 transplants including 84 hematopoietic stem cell transplants (48 allografts, 39 autografts) and 65 kidney transplants.

The Hospital Coordination for Organ and Tissue Donation

The CHPOT 's mission is to identify potential donors, guarantee the safety and traceability of organs, and participate in the training of healthcare personnel and public awareness campaigns. Composed of a physician, hospital coordinating nurses, and nurse anesthetists, the team carries out its duties 24/7 in conjunction with the French Biomedicine Agency.