Personalised Immunotherapy in Sepsis:
a precision medicine approach

Hospices Civils De Lyon

— HCL —

As a Public Centre of Excellence, “Hospices Civils de Lyon” is the second largest University Hospital Network in France. It puts together 14 multidisciplinary or specialised establishments and provides a various range of services and areas of expertise in all medical and surgical disciplines. HCL is ranked among the 25 best hospitals in the world. HCL represents:

  • 23,000 professionals, of which more than 5,000 are physicians
  • More than 950,000 appointments a year
  • More than 1.3 million hospitalisation days (including long stays)
  • 3 maternity wards that can manage pathological pregnancies and premature babies
  • More than 280,000 trips to emergency services, 399 organ transplants, 11,000 births.

For over 200 years, as a network providing expertise in all disciplines – both medical and surgical – Hospices Civils de Lyon has offered a wide range of human, technical and logistical resources to ensure that it provides care, training, research, medical innovation as well as disease prevention and health education. HCL is also a world-class network for the fight against cancer. The network is devoted daily to its mission “contributing to the constant improvement of the French and Europeans’ health” and its promise “a human and excellent medicine, for each and everyone, throughout life.”

Role within ImmunoSep

Within the ImmunoSep project, The Hospice Civils de Lyon will participate as a recruitment centre in Edouard Herriot Hospital Anaesthesia and Critical Care Department. In addition, the Immunology Laboratory of Edouard Herriot Hospital will coordinate standardisation of immune profiling between European recruitment centres to ensure patient’s stratification.

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