Presentation of the Centre
The Montpellier Cancer Institute (ICM, Montpellier, France), created in 1923 by a French authorities’ ordinance and member of the UNICANCER, has four overarching aims: patients' care, research, prevention and teaching. Facing more than 17,000 new cancer cases in the East Occitanie every year, the Institute has developed a medical and scientific strategy, with a national and international visibility, focusing on a personalized and innovative global patient management (medical, psychological and social) from cancer prevention to post-treatment follow-up. Over the years, the ICM rose at the forefront of the top-performing Comprehensive Cancer Centres for clinical, fundamental and translational research in France.
Main research activities
Research focused on the patient, spanning from fundamental biology to clinical applications, is a major founding mission of the Institute and its organized in six areas: prevention, fundamental, translational, clinical and methodological research, and human and social sciences.
Over 250 researchers are working side-by-side, and with the medical teams, to progress in the fight against cancer.
ICM obtained the SIRIC label (Integrated Cancer Research Center) in 2022 for the third time, from the National Cancer Institute (INCa).
Core Facilities
ICM doctors and researchers have access to state-of-the-art core facilities for the benefit of our patients. These include 1 MRIDianLinac, 6 Linear Accelerators, 9 operating rooms, 2 DaVinci surgical robot systems, 1 PET Scan, 2 MRI, 6 technical platforms (1 CyTOF, 1 Protein mass spectrometry …).
Education
Education is strongly rooted in the ICM culture and its medical/paramedical teams are actively involved in university teaching activities as well as in paramedical training courses. In 2016, the ICM has opened the “Montpellier Cancer School” to offer a variety of training opportunities in cancer-related disciplines to health-care providers and scientists.