Actions to be taken

Benefits

Development and maintenance of the partnerships

○ Strengthens infrastructure

○ Access to equipment specialized or to new sources of funding

○ Produces quality results

Setting up cytogenetic services

○ Cytogenetic diagnosis: identification of chromosomal abnormalities of number and structural

○ Use of different techniques: karyotype, FISH and array-CGH

To promote participatory research

○ Gives the place to the community in the production of knowledge and Innovation alongside researchers

○ Members of communities can contribute to the design, the implementation and analysis of quantitative or qualitative research data

○ Allows people to be heard on the issue of their own development

Creation of biobanks

○ Collection of samples of substances from the human body (tissues, blood, DNA, cell pellets, etc.) associated with personal data on their donors

○ Role in researching the causes and mechanisms of disease as well as their treatments

○ Intended to serve scientific research

○ Increases sample availability

Conduct of clinical trials

○ Aims to assess non-toxicity, tolerance and efficacy of a diagnostic method or a therapeutic strategy: cytogenetic tests for therapeutic decision and prognosis

To monitor the ethics of cytogenetic research projects

○ Allows you to approve the conduct of research projects on subjects human beings and to periodically monitor its progress in order to ensure the protection of the rights of the subjects, as well as their safety and their well-being.

To solve problems of data management and analysis (example, obstacle to the acquisition of tools)

○ Provides the ability to describe, reduce, classify and clarify the data showing similarities or differences between variables or groups of variables

Dissemination of research results (Books, Articles, Poster communications, Websites, etc.)

○ Intended to attract the attention of governments or stakeholders on research results, giving a social, political or economic impact

○ Increase the visibility and understanding of research