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Our services
Activities
MissionsThese 6 sectors have distinct missions but common objectives, which are as follows:
- the evaluation and monitoring of the effectiveness and safety of drugs and psychoactive substances (benefit/risk balance of drug prescription)
- Information on medication and psychoactive substances
- research and development related to medicines and psychoactive substances
- teaching medical pharmacology and the proper use of medication and psychoactive substances
Regional Pharmacovigilance Centre of Caen Normandy
- Collection and analysis of adverse event reports (Marketing authorization, misuse, medication errors, occupational exposures, abuse – excluding psychoactive substances…).
- Transmission of cases to national (ANSM) and European (EMA) authorities.
- Management of alerts concerning drug-induced iatrogenesis
- New side effects, serious side effects, drug interactions, abnormally high frequency of occurrence…
- Responses to inquiries
- Information on the risks associated with medications and their proper use
- Overdose, pregnancy, children, the elderly, drug interactions…
- Information and training for healthcare professionals
- Expertise, advice and investigations for the ANSM and the ARS
- Contribution to scientific progress → publications
Declaration via the Ministry of Health portal.
Contact: 02 31 06 46 72Pharmacovigilance bulletins below:
The last one :
Bulletin archives :
- VIGIKING 2025-06
- Vigiking 2024-10
- VIGIKING 2024-07
- Vigiking 2024-01
- Vigiking-2023-09
- Vigiking 2023-06
- VIGIKING-2023-03
- VIGIKING-2023-01
- VIGIKING-2022-11
- VIGIKING-2021-09
- VIGIKING-2020-10
- VIGIKING-2020-02
- VIGIKING-2019-11-12
- VIGIKING-2019-06-10
- VIGIKING-2019-03-04-05
- VIGIKING-2019-02
- VIGIKING-2018-12
- VIGIKING-2018-09-10
- VIGIKING-2018-07-08 VF
- VIGIKING-2018-05-06 VF
- VIGIKING-2018-04
- VIGIKING-2018-03
Pharmacoepidemiology and Health Data Analysis UnitSector specializing in:
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- Identification and characterization of adverse drug effects in the population
- Structuring and analyzing big data in healthcare
- Collaboration with numerous disciplines (sustained scientific publication activity)
- Recent publications below
- Development of new tools for analyzing health data
- Participation in several activities at the University Hospital related to the development of artificial intelligence:
- Steering Committee AI – Health Data Warehouse at Caen University Hospital
- Proof-of-concept project on cancer immunotherapy linked to the health data warehouse
- Integrative Artificial Intelligence Development on Projects
- Methodological COTECH of the Caen Normandy University Hospital
Addictovigilance – Centre for Evaluation and Information on Drug Dependence Brittany-Normandy (CEIP-A)
Assessment of the potential for drug dependence of psychoactive substances, whether medicinal or not
- Collection, analysis, and documentation of clinical cases of drug dependence: abuse, misuse, withdrawal syndromes, and health complications
- Collection and analysis of falsified prescriptions and various other indicators in the field of drug addiction and substance dependencies
- Responses to inquiries
- Information and training for healthcare professionals on drug dependence and the abuse of psychoactive substances across the inter-region
- Expertise, advice and investigations for the ANSM and the ARS
- Contribution to scientific progress → publications
Contact : 02 31 06 44 60
Biological Unit of Clinical Pharmacology and ToxicologyDrug and narcotic drug testing and dosage:
- Pharmacological Therapeutic Monitoring
- Dosage adjustment (Toxicity / efficacy)
- Compliance monitoring
- Pharmacogenetics (personalized therapy and dosage adjustment)
- Clinical Toxicology
- Research, identification, and quantification of drugs and narcotics involved in drug poisonings (accidental or intentional administration)
- Clinical research protocol
- Drug dosage in the context of clinical research activities
Biological Unit of Forensic Toxicology- Forensic toxicology · E-mail
- Drug and alcohol levels in blood and saliva
- Investigation into the causes of death
Clinical Pharmacology Unit
PICARO care pathway: prevention and management of adverse cardiac effects associated with medications prescribed in oncology:
- Specialized consultations in cardio-oncology-pharmacology
- RCP PICARO
- PICARO regional care pathway project
- This program is primarily intended for oncologists or organ specialists with expertise in oncology
Contact: 02 31 06 46 70 Email
Clinical research activity :
- Currently underway: 2 PHRC-N, 1 PHRC-I, 1 APRI 1
- Bioserenity-CHU Caen collaboration
- Affiliated with the Clinical Research Centre (Professor Alexandre: Deputy Coordinator)
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Research & teaching
Affiliations with research teams
The members of the Pharmacology Department are currently attached to 2 research teams within the Faculty of Health at the University of Caen-Normandie:
- Team INSERM U1086 ANTICIPE (Director: Prof. G. Launoy)
- Team INSERM U1075 COMÈTE (Director: Professor T. Freret)
Main themes
The main themes of the teaching researchers of the Service are linked to 2 of the HCERES axes of the University Hospital, namely the Cancer axis and the Heart-Brain axis.
Theme: "Medicines and cancer":
- Cardio-oncology (J. Alexandre)
- Immuno-oncology (C. Dolladille)
Theme “Medicines, cognition and aging, consequences on mobility” (V. Lelong-Boulouard) with the development of a theme “Elderly subjects (mobility, cognition) and anticancer drugs”
Scientific activities
All members of the Pharmacology Service participate in scientific publication activities by promoting the activities, tools and know-how of the service: analysis of health databases and research in pharmacoepidemiology, and translational approach ranging from experimental pharmacology to clinical pharmacology.
Funded projects
- PHRC national ALDOCURE (J Alexandre) €850k (85 inclusions at the University Hospital of Caen, 210 throughout France)
- PHRC national SPONSOR (J Alexandre) 1000 k€
- PHRC inter-regional MEDIFALL (V Lelong-Boulouard) €120k
- IRAF funding Biotronik €160k
- APRI, other calls for tenders…
Education
Academic instruction : approximately 210 hours of classes
- Faculty of Health (minor in health, Medicine, Pharmacy)
- Midwifery School
- Others (RN, IADE, IBODE, UFR , IBFA…)
- Training of medical interns specializing in general medicine, biology, hospital pharmacy (DES and FST in medical and therapeutic pharmacology) and of pharmacy and medical externs
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