Manager : A.C. Hardy

o DHU2020: a project that will transform research and healthcare

The research-healthcare interface targeted by the DHU 2020 in the context of the development of personalised medicine for chronic diseases, taking societal issues (ageing, economic crisis), along with those of the Nantes healthcare site (Ile de Nantes project), into consideration, causes major conceptual transformations associated with the confrontation of trades (healthcare - research), with the physician-patient relations and also with the researcher-patient relationship.

These profound transformations were thus proposed as a research topic in and of themselves, with a view to opening onto Humanities, Social sciences and Sociology.

The "standards, diseases and societies" work priority of UMR 6297 Law and Social Change, a DHU 2020 participant, provides an opportunity for this in-depth work and to question the healthcare transformations, both in terms of practice frameworks and of working conditions for professionals.

It offers the possibility of studying transformations related to changing research, healthcare, health requirements and public healthcare policies.

The coordination between healthcare and research leads to unavoidable and sometimes difficult confrontations between healthcare professionals and researchers. The "standards, diseases and societies" work priority proposes to initiate research endeavours focusing on this issue in order to enable the reflexivity of the healthcare-research relationship and to promote the contribution of healthcare research to fundamental research questions.

These tasks are structured around two goals:

• To work on the uses of the concept of "personalised medicine"

• To study the attitudes of researchers and healthcare professionals to new therapies

Ultimately, the aim is to raise questions concerning practices, in order to eventually enable the constructive integration of field-acquired knowledge into fundamental research issues. Such a project involves concrete collaborations focused on research operations, along with the creation of exchange areas during shared seminars and training courses.