Multi-scale and spatio-temporal modeling in Oncology

Director : 

Aurélien De Reynies

Bastien Rance

Deputy Director : 

Bastien Rance

Our work is part of the development of precision medicine in oncology. We are developing bioinformatics and AI methods to:

  • Characterize intratumoral heterogeneity at different scales (tissue, cellular and molecular) and help better understand tumor biology and response to treatment (Axis 1),
  • Extract critical information and knowledge from primary data (text, image, NGS) concerning the patient and his or her care pathway (Axis 2),
  • Produce multi-scale and spatio-temporal models of cancers and their management, for clinical decision support (Axis 3).

Scientific Themes

Oncology Bioinformatics Group

Medical Informatics Group

Main publications

Community assessment of methods to deconvolve cellular composition from bulk gene expression. White BS, de Reyniès A, Newman AM, Waterfall JJ, Lamb A, Petitprez F, Lin Y, Yu R, Guerrero-Gimenez ME, Domanskyi S, Monaco G, Chung V, Banerjee J, Derrick D, Valdeolivas A, Li H, Xiao X, Wang S, Zheng F, Yang W, Catania CA, Lang BJ, Bertus TJ, Piermarocchi C, Caruso FP, Ceccarelli M, Yu T, Guo X, Bletz J, Coller J, Maecker H, Duault C, Shokoohi V, Patel S, Liliental JE, Simon S; Tumor Deconvolution DREAM Challenge consortium; Saez-Rodriguez J, Heiser LM, Guinney J, Gentles AJ. Nat Commun. 2024 Link.

Facilitating phenotyping from clinical texts: the medkit library. Neuraz A, Vaillant G, Arias C, Birot O, Huynh KT, Fabacher T, Rogier A, Garcelon N, Lerner I, Rance B, Coulet A. Bioinformatics. 2024 Link.

Prognostic score and sex-specific nomograms to predict survival in resectable lung cancer: A French nationwide study from the Epithor cohort database. Alifano M, Daffré E, Brouchet L, Falcoz PE, Le Pimpec Barthes F, Pages PB, Thomas PA, Dahan M, Porcher R. Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2022 Link.

Intratumor CMS Heterogeneity Impacts Patient Prognosis in Localized Colon Cancer. Marisa L, Blum Y, Taieb J, Ayadi M, Pilati C, Le Malicot K, Lepage C, Salazar R, Aust D, Duval A, Blons H, Taly V, Gentien D, Rapinat A, Selves J, Mouillet-Richard S, Boige V, Emile JF, de Reyniès A*, Laurent-Puig P*. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Link.

B cells are associated with survival and immunotherapy response in sarcoma. Petitprez F, de Reyniès A, Keung EZ, Chen TW, Sun CM, Calderaro J, Jeng YM, Hsiao LP, Lacroix L, Bougoüin A, Moreira M, Lacroix G, Natario I, Adam J, Lucchesi C, Laizet YH, Toulmonde M, Burgess MA, Bolejack V, Reinke D, Wani KM, Wang WL, Lazar AJ, Roland CL, Wargo JA, Italiano A, Sautès-Fridman C, Tawbi HA, Fridman WH. Nature. 2020 Link.

All publications

Fundings