SISTM - 2021 - Annual activity report

SISTM

SISTM - 2021

2021

Activity report

Project-Team

SISTM

RNSR: 201321095C

Research center

Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest

In partnership with:

Université de Bordeaux, INSERM

Statistics In System biology and Translational Medicine

Domain

Digital Health, Biology and Earth

Theme

Modeling and Control for Life Sciences

Creation of the Project-Team: 2015 January 01

Keywords

Computer Science and Digital Science

A3.1.10. Heterogeneous data
A3.3.2. Data mining
A3.3.3. Big data analysis
A3.4.1. Supervised learning
A3.4.2. Unsupervised learning
A3.4.4. Optimization and learning
A3.4.5. Bayesian methods
A6.1.1. Continuous Modeling (PDE, ODE)
A6.2.4. Statistical methods
A6.3.1. Inverse problems
A6.3.4. Model reduction
A6.4.2. Stochastic control
A9.2. Machine learning

1 Team members, visitors, external collaborators

Research Scientists

Boris Hejblum [INSERM]
Melanie Prague [Inria]

Faculty Members

Rodolphe Thiébaut [Team leader, Univ de Bordeaux and Univ Hospital, Professor, HDR]
Marta Avalos Fernandez [Univ de Bordeaux, Associate Professor, HDR]
Robin Genuer [Univ de Bordeaux, Associate Professor, HDR]
Edouard Lhomme [Univ de Bordeaux and Univ Hospital, Associate Professor since Sept 2021]
Laura Richert [Univ de Bordeaux and Univ Hospital, Professor, HDR]
Linda Wittkop [Univ de Bordeaux and Univ Hospital, Associate Professor, HDR]

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Louis Capitaine [Univ de Bordeaux, Until Dec 2021]
Quentin Clairon [INSERM]
Laura Villain [INRIA, Until Sep 2021]

PhD Students

Marie Alexandre [Inria]
Houreratou Barry [INSERM]
Thomas Ferte [Bordeaux Univ Hospital, From Nov 2021]
Iris Beatrice Ganser [INSERM]
Marine Gauthier [Univ de Bordeaux, until Dec 2021]
Benjamin Hivert [INSERM]
Helene Savel [Ipsen, CIFRE]

Technical Staff

Kalidou Ba [INSERM, Engineer, From Oct 2021]
Melany Durand [INSERM, Engineer]
Melanie Huchon [INSERM, Engineer, from Oct 2021]
Laurent Lehot [INSERM, Engineer, until Jun 2021]
Clement Nerestan [Inria, Engineer]
Ndoh Penn [INSERM, Engineer, until Feb 2021]
Maria Prieto Gonzalez [INSERM, Engineer, until Aug 2021]
Myrtille Richard [INSERM, Engineer, until Jun 2021]
Panthea Tzourio [INSERM, Engineer]

Interns and Apprentices

Emma Avisou [INSERM, from Apr 2021 until Jun 2021]
Marie Charlotte Ballion [INSERM, from Apr 2021 until Jun 2021]
Clement Bonnet [INSERM, from Apr 2021 until Jun 2021]
Marie Laure Charpignon [INSERM, from Jun 2021 until Sep 2021]
Guillaume Coulaud [Univ Bordeaux, From May 2021 until Jul 2021]
Celine El-Zein [INSERM, from Apr 2021 until Aug 2021]
Mélanie Huchon [Inserm, From Mar 2021 until Aug 2021]
Clemence Metayer [Inria, from Apr 2021 until Oct 2021]
Abdelghani Neuhaus [Inria, from Feb 2021 until Aug 2021]
Carole Vignals [INSERM, from Feb 2021 until Jun 2021]

Administrative Assistants

Sandrine Darmigny [INSERM]
Anton Ottavi [INSERM, Research funding coordinator]
Audrey Plaza [Inria]

Visiting Scientists

Gayo Diallo [Univ de Bordeaux, HDR]
Jane Heffernan [INSERM, until Aug 2021]

External Collaborator

Thomas Ferte [Bordeaux Univ Hospital, until Oct 2021]

2 Overall objectives

The two main objectives of the SISTM team are: i) to accelerate the development of vaccines by analyzing all the information available in early clinical trials and optimizing new trials ii) to develop new data science approaches to analyze and model big/omics data. The methods developed are relevant in many other applications than those encountered in the SISTM team. However, the focus devoted to vaccine development is justified by the importance of the objective from a public health point of view and a good knowledge of the application field that maximizes the relevance and the implementation of the methods developed.

This equilibrium between the methodological and the applied work reached over the last years is a fundamental motivation for each member of the SISTM team even though the background could be very different from one researcher to the other (e.g. math vs. public health). This equilibrium is maintained by the organization of the team as well as the collaborations established especially through the Vaccine Research Institute, Inserm and Inria. Hence, we are able to collaborate for a theoretical problem during the development of a new method (e.g. demonstration of the convergence of an estimator) as well as to translate the research outcomes (either new analytical methods or applied results) to clinicians and biologists first in our collaborative networks and then beyond.

The SISTM team beneficits from a very rich ecosystem. Firstly, it is one of the rare team belonging to Inserm and Inria national institutes, which helps establishing collaboration as testified by the co-supervision of PhD Students and co-publications with other researchers belonging to Inserm teams or Inria teams from the two research centres in Bordeaux. Secondly, the applications in clinical research are facilitated by the very close collaboration with Clinical Trial Units (CTUs): from the ANRS/VRI (CMG directed by Linda Wittkop), from Bordeaux Hospital (USMR directed by Laura Richert and previously by Rodolphe Thiébaut), from the international consortia linked to the Vaccine Research Institute (e.g. MRC in EHVA, Janssen in EBOVAC). Finally, the team is very much involved in teaching activities in the context of ISPED and the Graduate’s program Digital Public Health (directed by Rodolphe Thiébaut). Hence, two specialties of the Master of Public Health (Biostatistics and Public Health Data Science) are supervised by members of the SISTM team.

3 Research program

The team is organized in three research axes:

1. High Dimensional Statistical Learning (leader Boris Hejblum),

2. Mechanistic learning (leader Mélanie Prague),

3. Translational vaccinology (leader Laura Richert).

Our specific scientific objectives are:

3.1 Axis 1 - High-Dimensional Statistical Learning

To uncover and visualize sparse signal and clustering structures from high-dimensional omics data through statistically sound methodologies.
To infer cellular populations abundance from transcriptomics data with semi-supervised learning.
To reduce data redundancy by i) high-dimensional reduction and ii) deconvolution methods.
To develop and apply methods for discovering complex relationships between high-dimensional data (multiblock analysis for data integration).

The first step for each type of data is to infer the maximum of information from the generated data. In spite of being high-dimensional, data are generally not analyzed in full due to either their size and complexity. For example in cellular phenotyping data, only a set of a given combination of markers are used to measure the abundance of a pre-defined set of cell types. This approach precludes the discovery of new types of cells defined by new combinations of markers. This problem is even more prevalent with current high-throughput technologies that allows measurement of up to 100 markers on a single cell. We are thus developing statistical learning approaches for automated gating of cellular populations, for a comprehensive range of single-cell measurement technologies (e.g. Flow-Cytometry, CyTOF). We still need to strengthen annotation procedures and to liaise with research on ontologies.

However, measuring specific cells across many intra-cellular and surface markers requires a lot of blood, preferentially fresh. This makes it very difficult to implement such measurements to large sample sizes with many repeated measurements. This is why we want to study how feasible it would be to replace cell phenotyping by transcriptomics analysis in whole blood. This is a challenging exercise that go much beyond the initial works done on this topic using deconvolution approaches. We foresee two complementary ideas that could help us reaching this objective: improving the model for the deconvolution using more sophisticated statistical and machine learning (ML) models (as described below), and to improve the knowledge databases by using newly available single cell transcriptomics analyses. Single cell transcriptomics is a newly available method that provides a new type of information. However, its analysis requires new approaches to take into account several methodological difficulties such as heavily skewed distributions. We are already developing a new approach based on score test statistics that appears to provide much better control of type 1 and type 2 errors than currently available methods (dearseq, EdgeR). One of the methods that is particularly performant in our context of high dimensional data is the Random Forests. However, several limitations are present especially when dealing with repeated measures. Therefore, we are working on extension generalizing the available approaches of random forest for longitudinal data and we are also proposing new metrics (Frechet).

High-dimensional data such as omics data are often analyzed first by clustering observations to identify homogeneous sub-populations. It is then wildy popular to contrast the identified clusters to highlight differentiating features, even though this re-use of the same data known as “double-dipping” is unsound according to statistical theory (leading to overfitting and optimism bias). We are currently developping on new approaches to this problem of post-clustering inference with a focus on (single-cell) RNA-seq trnacriptomics data.

In each clinical trial, we are ending with various types of markers and the final objective is to describe the relationship between all markers. However, the high-dimensional setting makes the analysis much more complex. We have already developed extension of sparse Partial Least Squares and multiblock analyses but these solutions are not fully satisfying because they do not take into account missing data in X and Y properly, the behavior is often compromise in very high dimensional contexts that we are facing.

3.2 Axis 2 - Mechanistic learning

To infer ordinary differential equations (ODE) systems parameters by using high dimensional data.
To compare and implement control strategies through various approaches belonging to statistical control, stochastic control, reinforcement learning.

In this axis, we focus on Inference in population of mechanistic models. This modeling is constituted of three features: 1/ a mathematical model, which describes a phenomenon, 2/ a statistical model, which describes the variability that exists in data, and 3/ an observational model, which relates what is observable with the mathematical model. In each feature, new methodological development in this research program are described below:

1. A significant part of the work done in this axis consists in modeling dynamics of markers in immunology and vaccinology. This consists in reviewing the literature and discussing with clinicians to model at best the knowledge of a biological mechanism. For each new project, calibration and identifiability analysis are needed to check the feasibility of answering biological questions with mathematical tools (we have examples in the field of Ebola vaccine response, HIV antiretroviral interruption strategies, NIPAH infection, COVID19 epidemics in population…). An example of such theoretical work for the specific topic of humoral response to Ebola vaccine is available in Balelli et al. 2020.

2. When data are available over multiple subjects, using an ODE with mixed effects on parameters has the advantage to borrow information from most the informative subjects to estimate parameters of the other subjects. However, when maximum-likelihood based approaches are computationally intensive, thus it is very difficult to scale up when the complexity of the mathematical model gets higher. While we routinely use Stochastic Approximation Estimation Maximisation (SAEM) algorithm as implemented in Monolix software, we intend to develop new methods for estimation in these models following two tracks: 1/ using Kalman filtering approach (Colin et al. 2020, submitted) and 2/ using optimal control algorithms (Clairon et al. 2020, in preparation).

3. In vaccinology and immunology, various markers are measured. However, their observation is prone to error (either random or constrained by experiments) and to uncertainty due to the possibly misspecified understanding of a mechanism. Latent class models, such as in Proust-Lima et al. (2013), address how to build a latent process from observed variables to describe a phenomenon of interest. Other works such as Tadde et al. (2019), based on latent processes and Dynamic Bayesian Network aim at understanding a mechanism between multiple biomarkers and inferring a dynamical model. One limitation of these approach is that it mainly relies on correlations between covariates, but correlation is not causation. We aim at jointly estimating parameters in the dynamical system while estimating parameters of the observation model using latent class approaches and possibly lasso-type techniques.

All these methodological developments will help in answering open questions already raised by the data but will also pave the way to make use of high dimensional data in the observational model to account for information such as omics data. A particular example at hands is the use of repeated genes expression to track concentration of population of cells and use it as input in the mechanistic analysis. Once estimated with observed data, these models can be compared and used to implement control strategies. The comparison can be performed using model averaging, which refers to the practice of using several models for inferring parameters and for making predictions. It has been shown that model averaging leads to better performances than simple model selection (Gonçalves et al. 2019). Finally, it is possible to prospectively use the models to target optimal strategies of treatment or vaccination: we will continue building on Bayesian approaches such as Villain et al. 2019. However, given the complexity of the epidemic dynamics (and the associated complexity of models), these pre-defined coarse strategies are bound to be sub-optimal, especially when considering that the problem is multi-objective and that strategies may be heterogeneous and multiscale (Halloran et al., 2008). We will investigate approaches which are more exhaustive and explore the space of solution such as one based on stochastic control (Pasin et al. 2019) or reinforcement learning which is indicated in high-dimensional non-stationary environments with uncertainty and partial observation of the state of the system (Mnih et al., 2015; Haarnoja et al., 2018).

3.3 Axis 3 - Translational vaccinology

To accelerate vaccine development by in silico trials.
To accelerate vaccine development by new adaptive designs.
To accelerate vaccine development by in depth analysis of data generated in early clinical trials.

Beyond the analysis of clinical trials performed, especially in the context of the VRI, that bring new fundamental information for next trials and fully contribute to the development of vaccines (e.g. Sirima et al. Lancet Infectious diseases 2020, Pollard et al. Lancet Infectious diseases 2020, Jahnmatz et al. Lancet Infectious Diseases 2020, Barry et al. Plos Med. 2021 19, Lévy et al. J Virol 2021 34), we want to capitalize with the research done in data science to accelerate vaccine development. We foresee three main ways. The first one is by the deep analysis of the data generated. One of the main hypotheses is that these analyses may help i) defining correlates of protection, that is surrogate markers reflecting the vaccine efficacy ii) stratifying the participants at baseline or very early to optimize the response to vaccine. A good example of the approach is our results with the Ebola rVSV vaccine where we found early markers measured at day 1 or 3 after the vaccine injection that were associated to the antibody response 6 months later (Rechtien et al. Cell report 2017).

The second project is to design next trials in a more efficient way. Adaptive designs are clearly relevant in the situation of vaccine development and we have already implemented such designs (VRI01, EHVA T01). However, we think that we can go much beyond and we want to explore new approaches such as using reinforcement learning. Although this is not our area of expertise, this will be done in collaboration with Inria teams (Flowers, Scool -E. Kaufmann-) and it is actually very much connected to the research performed for optimal control of treatment regimen developed in Axis 2. Last but not least, we want to explore in silico trials that is simulating potential trials to help selecting potential candidates for the next real trials. Opportunistically, we want to build on the mechanistic models developed in axis 2 to simulate new trials adding external information from already published studies. We already used this type of approach in the simple context of exogenous IL-7 therapy. Now, we want to use it to define best combination of vaccines plateforms and adjuvants. Here we surmise on the fact that same vaccine vectors are used with many different antigens and combined with various adjuvants. For instance, the Adenovirus 26 vector is evaluated for HIV, Ebola and SARS-Cov2 vaccine.

In conclusion, the team is now well organized around three axes sharing a common objective. Longterm local, national and international collaborations have been settled with a part of fundings secured up to 2025. It is embarked in a double challenge of developing methods to deal with high dimensional data and a main application for accelerating vaccine development. The growing interest and expertise in machine learning and reinforcement learning approaches open new ways to reach these objectives.

4 Application domains

4.1 Systems Biology and Translational medicine

Biological and clinical researches have dramatically changed because of the technological advances, leading to the possibility of measuring much more biological quantities than previously. Clinical research studies can include now traditional measurements such as clinical status, but also thousands of cell populations, peptides, gene expressions for a given patient. This has facilitated the transfer of knowledge from basic to clinical science (from "bench side to bedside") and vice versa, a process often called "Translational medicine". However, the analysis of these large amounts of data needs specific methods, especially when one wants to have a global understanding of the information inherent to complex systems through an "integrative analysis". These systems like the immune system are complex because of many interactions within and between many levels (inside cells, between cells, in different tissues, in various species). This has led to a new field called "Systems biology" rapidly adapted to specific topics such as "Systems Immunology" 76, "Systems vaccinology" 75, "Systems medicine" 73. From the data scientist point of view, two main challenges appear: i) to deal with the massive amount of data ii) to find relevant models capturing observed behaviors.

4.2 HIV immunotherapies

The management of HIV infected patients and the control of the epidemics have been revolutionized by the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapies. Patients treated by these combinations of antiretrovirals have most often undetectable viral loads with an immune reconstitution leading to a survival which is nearly the same to uninfected individuals 74. Hence, it has been demonstrated that early start of antiretroviral treatments may be good for individual patients as well as for the control of the HIV epidemics (by reducing the transmission from infected people) 72. However, the implementation of such strategy is difficult especially in developing countries. Some HIV infected individuals do not tolerate antiretroviral regimen or did not reconstitute their immune system. Therefore, vaccine and other immune interventions are required. Many vaccine candidates as well as other immune interventions (IL7, IL15) are currently evaluated. The challenges here are multiple because the effects of these interventions on the immune system are not fully understood, there are no good surrogate markers although the number of measured markers has exponentially increased. Hence, HIV clinical epidemiology has also entered in the era of Big Data because of the very deep evaluation at individual level leading to a huge amount of complex data, repeated over time, even in clinical trials that includes a small number of subjects.

4.3 Translational vaccinology

Vaccines are one of the most efficient tools to prevent and control infectious diseases, and there is a need to increase the number of safe and efficacious vaccines against various pathogens. However, clinical development of vaccines - and of any other investigational product - is a lengthy and costly process. Considering the public health benefits of vaccines, their development needs to be supported and accelerated. During early phase clinical vaccine development (phase I, II trials, translational trials), the number of possible candidate vaccine strategies against a given pathogen that needs to be down-selected in early clinical development is potentially very large. Moreover, during early clinical development there are most often no validated surrogate endpoints to predict the clinical efficacy of a vaccine strategy based on immunogenicity results that could be used as a consensus immunogenicity endpoint and down-selection criterion. This implies considerable uncertainty about the interpretation of immunogenicity results and about the potential value of a vaccine strategy as it transits through early clinical development. Given the complexity of the immune system and the many unknowns in the generation of a protective immune response, early vaccine clinical development nowadays thus takes advantage of high throughput (or “omics”) methods allowing to simultaneously assess a large number of response markers at different levels (“multi-omics”) of the immune system. Outside of the context of emergency vaccine development during a pandemic, this has induced a paradigm shift towards early-stage and translational vaccine clinical trials including fewer participants but with thousands of data points collected on every single individual. This is expected to contribute to acceleration of vaccine development thanks to a broader search for immunogenicity signals and a better understanding of the mechanisms induced by each vaccine strategy. However, this remains a difficult research field, both from the immunological as well as from the statistical perspective. Extracting meaningful information from these multi-omics data and transferring it towards an acceleration of vaccine development requires adequate statistical methods, state-of-the art immunological technologies and expertise, and thoughtful interpretation of the results. It thus constitutes research at the interface between disciplines: data science, immunology and vaccinology. Our main current areas of application here are early phase trials of HIV and Ebola vaccine strategies, in which we participate from the initial trial design to the final data analyses. We are also involved in the development of next-generation pan-Coronavirus vaccines.

5 Highlights of the year

5.1 Ebola vaccine development

Beyond the scientific publications including the results of EBL2002 trial (2 articles in Plos Med, 2021 19 and Jan 2022), the Ad26.ZEBOV/MVA-BN-Filo developed with Janssen has been approved by FDA and EMA for emergency use on July 1st 2020. The submitted file included the model predictions of the duration of the vaccine response. In addition, WHO Prequalification for the use of the Ebola vaccine has been obtained on April 2021.

Another large randomized multi-arm Ebola vaccine trial (Prevac trial, evaluating three different Ebola vaccine strategies; Badio et al, Trials 2021 16) has had its primarily results available in 2021 and a manuscript has been submitted to the New England Journal of Medicine at the end of 2021.

5.2 Response to COVID19

Set-up and conduct of CovPopArt Covid Vaccine Cohort (co-PI: Linda Wittkop). A French cohort for assessing COVID-19 vaccine responses in specific populations.

Loubet P, Wittkop L, Tartour E, Parfait B, Barrou B, Blay JY, Hourmant M, Lachâtre M, Laplaud DA, Laville M, Laviolle B, Lelievre JD, Morel J, Nguyen S, Spano JP, Terrier B, Thiebaut A, Viallard JF, Vrtovsnik F, de Lamballerie X, Launay O.Nat Med. 2021 Aug;27(8):1319-1321. doi:10.1038/s41591-021-01435-1 6.

C Colas, B Hejblum, S Rouillon, R Thiébaut, P-Y Oudeyer, C Moulin-Frier, M Prague (2021). EpidemiOptim: A Toolbox for the Optimization of Control Policies in Epidemiological Models. JAIR, 71:479–519. 27.

5.3 Awards

For the whole work and coordination of the EBOVAC2 project, R Thiébaut has received the Prix Etoiles de l’Europe 2021, special mention Prix Etoiles de l’Europe 2021.

6 New software and platforms

List of new softwares.

6.1 New software

6.1.1 PheVIS

Name:
PheVis: Automatic Phenotyping of Electronic Health Record at Visit Resolution
Keywords:
Timeseries Prediction, Medical applications, Electronic Medical Records, Artificial intelligence
Functional Description:
Using Electronic Health Record (EHR) is difficult because most of the time the true characteristic of the patient is not available. Instead we can retrieve the International Classification of Disease code related to the disease of interest or we can count the occurrence of the Unified Medical Language System. None of them is the true phenotype which needs chart review to identify. However chart review is time consuming and costly. 'PheVis' is an algorithm which is phenotyping (i.e identify a characteristic) at the visit level in an unsupervised fashion. It can be used for chronic or acute diseases. An example of how to use 'PheVis' is available in the vignette. Basically there are two functions that are to be used: 'train_phevis()' which trains the algorithm and 'test_phevis()' which get the predicted probabilities. The detailed method is described in preprint by Ferté et al. (2020) <doi:10.1101/2020.06.15.20131458>.
URL:
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PheVis
Contact:
Boris Hejblum
Partners:
INSERM, CHU de Bordeaux

6.1.2 sGBJ

Name:
Survival Extension of the Generalized Berk-Jones Test
Keywords:
Biostatistics, Survival analysis, Cancer, Transcriptomics
Functional Description:
Implements an extension of the Generalized Berk-Jones (GBJ) statistic for survival data, sGBJ. It computes the sGBJ statistic and its p-value for testing the association between a gene set and a time-to-event outcome with possible adjustment on additional covariates.
URL:
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sGBJ
Contact:
Boris Hejblum

6.1.3 FrechForest

Name:
Fréchet Random Forest
Keyword:
Machine learning
Functional Description:
The R package is used to train a Fréchet tree or random forest for a learning problem where the inputs can be a mixture of continuous or categorical variables, curves or images, and the output can be a continuous, categorical, curve or image variable.
URL:
https://github.com/Lcapitaine/FrechForest
Authors:
Louis Capitaine, Robin Genuer
Contact:
Robin Genuer

6.1.4 EpidemiOptim

Name:
EpidemiOptim: a toolbox for the optimization of control policies in epidemiological models
Keywords:
Epidemiology, Optimization, Dynamical system, Reinforcement learning, Multi-objective optimisation
Functional Description:
This toolbox proposes a modular set of tools to optimize intervention strategies in epidemiological models. The user can define or use a pre-coded epidemiological model to represent an epidemic. He/she can define a set of cost functions to define a particular optimization problem. Finally, given an optimization problem (epidemiological model and cost functions and action modalities), the user can define/reuse optimization algorithms to optimize intervention strategies that minimize the costs. Finally, the toolbox contains visualization and comparison tools. This allows to investigate various hypotheses easily.
URL:
https://github.com/flowersteam/EpidemiOptim
Contact:
Cedric Colas

6.1.5 VASI_Cyto

Keywords:
Data visualization, Biostatistics, Web Application
Functional Description:
Web application for visualization of biologic data from datawarhouse of SISTM team.
URL:
https://gitlab.inria.fr/cneresta/VASICyto
Contact:
Clément Nerestan
Partner:
INSERM

6.1.6 ccdf

Keyword:
Biostatistics
Functional Description:
Complex Hypothesis Testing Through Conditional Cumulative Distribution Function Estimation
URL:
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ccdf
Contact:
Boris Hejblum

7 New results

7.1 Methods for transcriptomic studies

The development of methods for the analysis of longitudinal gene expression data (encountered in many vaccine trials) started in 2014 and keeps being extended (Gauthier, bioRxiv 2021 67, Villain, bioRxiv 2021 70, ). This work has started because none of the available approaches for longitudinal expression analysis was available to perform the analysis needed on the first VRI vaccine trial that was including repeated measures of gene expression. With the upcoming of single-cell RNAseq data, the need for adequate yet principled and sound methods for differential analysis of gene expression remains important. Our latest results leverage conditional to avoid making dubious distributional assumptions and accomodate the scRNAseq data specificities. Those methodologies have been applied to deepen our understanding of SARS-CoV-2 infection and identify potential biomarkers (Levy, iScience, 2021 35).

7.2 Translational vaccinology

7.2.1 Vaccine clinical trials

Main results of the EBL2002 Ebola vaccine trials have been published in two articles in Plos Medicine. Furthermore, the results of a therapeutic HIV vaccine trial have also been published in 2021 (Lévy et al, J Virol 2021). A manuscript with the results of the Prevac Ebola vaccine trial has been submitted to the New England Journal of medicine.

Start of ANRS VRI06 first-in-human phase I trial of a novel vaccine concept targeting dendritic cells (here : as HIV vaccine); preparation of design of next generation Coronavirus vaccines based on that concept.

Furthermore, the ANRS VRI06 first-in-human phase I trial of a novel vaccine concept targeting dendritic cells (here as HIV vaccine) has started in 2021, and we have prepared the trial design of next generation Coronavirus vaccines based on that novel concept.

7.2.2 Covid treatment trials

The researchers of the team have been heavily mobilized the Coverage France clinical trial. Coverage France is a national multi-arm multi-stage (MAMS) adaptive trial platform for early treatments in Covid-infected outpatients in France that has been set-up in spring 2020 and obtained the “national priority” label (Capnet) (Duvignaud, Trials 2020). The trial was still ongoing in 2021 and has been adapted several times since its start, including evolution of the design and the evaluation of new treatment strategies. The trial has been stopped by the Scientific Advisory board in Dec 2021. A manuscript with the results of one of the tested treatment strategies (ciclesonide) has been submitted (co-first author: E Lhomme).

7.2.3 Systems immunology analyses

The systems vaccinology analyses of the Ebola vaccine trial EBL2001 within the Ebovac2 consortium has well advanced, a manuscript is being prepared. The systems vaccinology analyses of the ANRS VRI01 HIV vaccine trial are under revision in the Journal of Immunology.

7.2.4 Methodological developments for vaccine trials

The statistical methods developed by the team for the analysis of functional T-cell data using a bivariate modeling approach has been published in the Journal of Immunological Methods. We have strengthened our expertise in adaptive MAMS trial designs and their practical conduct thanks to the Coverage trial (see above). We have also started a new collaboration with Emilie Kaufmann (Scool team, Cristal, Inria Lille) in order to use bandit algorithms for vaccine clinical trial design and analyses. A master student will work on this topic in 2022.

Participants: Boris Hejblum, Edouard Lhomme, Mélanie Prague, Laura Richert, Rodolphe Thiébaut, Linda Wittkop.

8 Partnerships and cooperations

8.1 International initiatives

8.1.1 Associate Teams in the framework of an Inria International Lab or in the framework of an Inria International Program

DYNAMHIC

Title:
DYNAMical modeling of HIV Cures
Duration:
2019 ->
Coordinator:
Alison HILL (alhill@fas.harvard.edu)
Partners:
- Harvard University
Inria contact:
Melanie Prague
Summary:
Worldwide, over 35 million people are currently infected with HIV, and 2.3 million individuals are newly infected each year. While combination antiretroviral therapy can suppress virus replication, improving life expectancy and quality, it cannot eradicate the virus. A latent reservoir of virus exists in long-lived lymphocytes and can re-initiate the infection (“rebound”) whenever treatment is stopped. Consequently, current therapy must be taken for life, and new research efforts are underway to find a permanent cure for HIV. Two general approaches are being taken to prevent HIV rebound and hence allow therapy to be completely stopped (“cure”). One approach, often called a “sterilizing cure”, is to purge all the remaining latent virus (so called Berlin patient, Mississippi baby). Another approach, often called a “functional cure”, is to instead equip the immune system with the ability to control virus that reactivates from latency (so called elite controllers or post-treatment controllers). This provides the proof-of-concept for immunologically-mediated control. The studies we will analyze in this program are part of a larger effort to use therapies that enhance the immune response (known as ”immunotherapy” and ”therapeutic vaccine”) to induce viral control either by clearing latent virus, boosting anti-viral immune responses, or both. The goal of this collaboration is to investigate the effect of each component of the potentially-curative intervention (vaccine and immunotherapy) and evaluate their synergy. We use statistical inference methods (developed by SISTM team) applied to mathematical models describing the dynamics of virus and immune cells (developed by Harvard team). Such approaches are superior to regression-based methods that ignore the underlying biological mechanisms. A Bayesian framework which estimates parameters at a population level allows us to explicitly test for differences between treatment groups, and, can overcome parameter identifiability issues that arise in complex, high-dimensional models. Indeed, these model can both provide mechanistic understanding of the biological process when administrating a treat- ment and help predicting the outcome for a new study. Previous studies have demonstrated that mechanistic models can accelerate the development of new drugs by facilitating in silico simulation of clinical trials (e.g. for Hepatitis C antivirals). We aim at providing such a tool for the development of immunotherapies and vaccines for HIV cure.

8.1.2 Participation in other International Programs

NIPAH (Chine) – Scientific cooperation program France/Chine. (2019-2022). M. Prague is workpackage co-PI - Sino-French Agreement Aviesan. Sept. 2018 – Aug. 2023, 150,000 euros. To raise the challenge caused by Nipah virus we propose to develop a program that shall led to a better understanding of the epidemiology of the virus as well as the associated physiopathology.To develop new tools in the field of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of the infection. This grant aims at funding a 2 years of postdoc, travel and equipment expenses.

8.2 International research visitors

8.2.1 Visits of international scientists

Jane Heffernan

Status:
Professor of mathematical modelling
Institution of origin:
York University of Toronto
Country:
Canada
Dates:
from Sept 2020 to Aug 2021
Mobility program/type of mobility:
research stay

8.3 European initiatives

8.3.1 FP7 and H2020 projects

IP-CURE-B: Immune profiling to guide host-directed interventions to cure HBV infections. Co-ordinated by Inserm (France), the project includes a total of 13 Beneficiaries: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (Switzerland), Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), Institut Pasteur (France), Universita degli studi di Parma (Italy), Fondazione IRCCS CA’ Granda – Ospedale maggiore policlinico (Italy), Universitaet- sklinikum Freiburg (Germany), Ethniko Kai Kapodistriako Panepistimio Athi-non (Greece), Fundacio Hospital Universitari vall d’Hebron (Spain), Gilead Sciences Inc. (USA), Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals, Inc (USA), European Liver Patients Association (Belgium), Inserm Transfert SA (France). L Richert. Duration: 60 months 01/01/20-31/12/24. 409 632 Euros.

EHVA (EHVA): European HIV Vaccine Alliance: a EU platform for the discovery and evaluation of novel prophylactic and therapeutic vaccine candidates. Coordinator: Inserm/University of Lausanne. Other partners: EHVA consortium gathers 41 partners. R. Thiébaut. Duration: 60 months. 01/01/2016 - 31/12/20 – 208 686 euros.

8.3.2 Other european programs/initiatives

EBOVAC2 (EBOVAC2): Development of a Prophylactic Ebola Vaccine Using a 2-Dose Heterologous Vaccination Regimen: Phase 2. Coordinated by Rodolphe Thiébaut with the following partners: Inserm (France), Labex VRI (France), Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (United Kingdom), The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), le Centre Muraz (Burkina Faso), Inserm Transfert (France). Duration: 72 months. 01/12/2014 - 30/11/2020. Total amount: IMI2 22,790,820 euros + EFPIA 50 710 893 €. Amount for SISTM: 2,930,196 euros.

EBOVAC1: Development of a Prophylactic Ebola Vaccine Using an Heterologous Prime-Boost Regimen. Coordinated by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (United Kingdom). Other beneficiaries: Janssen a Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson, The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), Inserm (France), University of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone), R. Thiébaut. Duration: 84 months. 01 /12 /2014 - 30 /11 /2021. 552,050 Euros.

EBOVAC3: Bringing a prophylactic Ebola vaccine to licensure. Coordinated by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (United Kingdom). Other beneficiaries: Janssen a Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson, Inserm (France), The University of Antwerpen (Belgium), University of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone), R. Thiébaut. Duration: 60 months. 01 /06 /2018 - 30 /05 /2023. 351,274 Euros.

PREVAC-UP: The Partnership for Research on Ebola VACcinations-extended follow-UP and clinical research capacity build-UP. SISTM is also involved in PREVAC-UP, an EDCTP2 project in direct link with the research carried out on the Ebola vaccines. Coordinated by Inserm (France). Other beneficia- ries: CNFRSR (Guinea), CERFIG (Guinea), LSHTM (UK), COMAHS (Sierra-Leone), NIAID (USA), NPHIL (Liberia), USTTB (Mali), Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins (Mali), Inserm Transfert SA (France), R. Thiébaut. Duration: 60 months. 01 /01 /2019 - 31 /12 /2023. 328,000 Euros.

CARE: Corona Accelerated R and D in Europe is an IMI2 funded project coordinated by Inserm which gathers 36 globally renowned academic institutions, pharmaceutical companies and non-profit research organisations which have committed to rapidly and efficiently address the COVID-19 emergent heath threat. This major initiative aims at addressing two key objectives: the development of therapeutics to provide an emergency response towards the current COVID-19 pandemic and the development of therapeutics to address the current and/or future coronavirus outbreaks. To address both goals, the CARE consortium has carefully designed a comprehensive research and development (R and D) program around thoughtfully designed Target Product Profiles (TPP) of the urgently needed antiCOVID-19 drugs. This includes small and large molecule discovery and Phase 1 and 2 clinical trials centred around three main pillars: drug repositioning, small-molecule drug discovery, and virus neutralising antibody discovery. These pillars reflect a bifocal strategy where efforts are geared towards (a) a rapid response against current COVID-19 pandemic and (b) a longer-term preparedness strategy against future coronavirus outbreaks. This will maximize the screening landscape of relevant therapeutic avenues and ensure effective therapeutics can be rapidly identified, pre-clinically tested and optimised for clinical-grade manufacturing and clinical testing. In this project, SISTM and EUCLID are working closely together with the support of the CREDIM in the WP5, W7 and WP8 with the respective objectives of providing statistical analysis and data modelling of the immune assays carried out in the project, bring some expert support to the clinical work and develop a LabKey-based platform for the integration and management of the data. Duration: 60 months. 01/04/2020 - 30/03/2025. 1 256 003 Euros.

ASCENT: Acceleration of Novel Coronavirus Serological Test Development and Seroprevalence Study: An African-European Initiative. ASCENT is an EDCTP2 projects involving 7 partners (Inserm, CHUV, EuroVacc, Utrecht University, Centre Muraz, SAMRC and CERFIG) from 6 different countries in Africa and Europe which will aim at assessing the real prevalence of the infection, the projection of the immunity acquired by the populations, and the evaluation of measures aimed to break the transmission in Africa. To do so ASCENT will implement in Burkina Faso, South Africa and Guinea, a novel robust and reproducible luminex-based serological diagnostic test with high throughput, sensitivity, specificity and rapid turn- around time. In this project, SISTM will be involved in statistical analysis of the tests data and will lead the WP3 which aims at modeling the epidemics. Duration: 24 months. 01/05/2020 - 30/04/2022. 37,500 Euros.

8.4 National initiatives

Labex Vaccine Research Institute (VRI): There are strong collaborations with immunologists involved in the Labex Vaccine Research Institute (VRI) as Rodolphe Thiébaut and Laura Richert are leading the Data science division (197 095 euros in 2020) VRI.
RHU SHIVA: since November 2019, R. Thiébaut is collaborating in the SHIVA RHU to work on the Integration and systems biology of MRI-cSmall Vessel Disease biomarkers. The budget for the SISTM team corresponds to the costs of a postdoc position. The duration of the RHU SHIVA is 60 months.
SIDACTION: Towards HIV functional cure, down selection of immunotherapeutic strategies using an HIV/HIS mice model (2019-2021) (R. Thiébaut) 18,000 euros.
Ecole Universitaire de Recherche « Digital Public Health » PIA3 –Bordeaux -University - 2018-2028 – Head: R. Thiébaut – budget : 4,517,700 euros.
EMERGEN – ANRS MIE – Task PI, Jan. 2022 – Jan 2023 – 56,000 euros - Estimating the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 variants and modeling their impact on epidemic dynamics - M Prague.
IMPULSION Public Health Data Science – Bordeaux University – 1.5M – Workpackage PI, March. 2022 – March 2026, Monitoring the epidemic (and possibly second wave) of COVID19 in France with the focus on Nouvelle-Aquitaine - M Prague Task leader: animation of the network through datathons, biannual network meetings and workshop organization: B Hejblum.

8.4.1 Expert Appraisals

Rodolphe Thiébaut was a member of the CNU 46.04 (Biostatistiques, informatique médicale et technologies de communication) until Sept 2021.
Rodolphe Thiébaut is a member of the Scientific Council of Inserm.
Edouard Lhomme is an expert for ANRS -MIE (French Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis) in the COVID19 outpatient working group. He coordinates the response to the ministerial referral on the development of ambulatory clinical research.
Edouard Lhomme is a member of the independent committee of international trials ANRS 177 DUETTO evaluating innovative antiretroviral therapy for people living with HIV and the French vaccine COVIBOOST trial, evaluating different vaccine boost strategy against COVID-19.
L Richert is member of the independent committee of several national clinical trials (out of which one Covid antibody treatment phase I trial; and 1 Covid vaccine phase I trials).
L. Richert is an expert reviewer for the PHRC funding programme.
L Richert is a member of the CNU 46.04 (Biostatistiques, informatique médicale et technologies de communication).
Linda Wittkop is member of the external ethics and scientific advisory board of the EU-funded project VACCELERATE.
Linda Wittkop is member of the CESREES (Comité éthique et scientifique pour les Recherches, les Etudes et les Evaluation dans le domaine de la santé).

8.4.2 Various Partnership

The project team members are involved in:

F-CRIN (French clinical research infrastructure network), initiated in 2012 by ANR under "Programme des Investissements d'avenir". (L Richert and E Lhomme).
INCA (Institut National du Cancer) funded the project Evaluation de l’efficacité d’un traitement sur l’évolution de la taille tumorale et autres critères de survie : développement de modèles conjoints. (Principal PI Virginie Rondeau Inserm U1219, Mélanie Prague is responsible of Work package 4 “mechanistic modeling of cancer: 5800 euros”).
Contrat Initiation ANRS MoDeL-CI: Modeling the HIV epidemic in Ivory Coast (Principal PI Eric Ouattara Inserm U1219 in collaboration with University College London, Mélanie Prague is listed as a collaborator).
TARPON (Traitement Automatique des Résumés de Passages aux urgences pour un Observatoire National), laureate project from the 2nd Health Data Hub calls for projects, great challenge "Improving medical diagnostics through Artificial Intelligence" and Bpifrance. (Principal PI E. Lagarde Inserm U1219 in collaboration with University Hospital of Bordeaux. Marta Avalos is listed as a collaborator).
CESIR IV (Combination of Studies on Health and Road Safety - 4th project) funded by ONISR DSR. (Principal PI E. Lagarde Inserm U1219. Marta Avalos is listed as a collaborator).
Collaboration with Inserm PRC (pôle Recherche clinique).
Collaboration with Inserm RECap (Recherche en Epidémiologie Clinique et en Santé Publique) network.

Participants: Marta Avalos, Boris Hejblum, Edouard Lhomme, Mélanie Prague, Laura Richert, Rodolphe Thiébaut, Linda Wittkop.

9 Dissemination

9.1 Promoting scientific activities

9.1.1 Scientific events: organisation

AC Modeling ANRS MIE Workshop – Pasteur Paris – 18/19 Oct. – M Prague.

Boris Hejblum organizes the fortnightly joint Biostatistics Seminar Series between the Bordeaux Population Health Inserm Research Center and the Bordeaux University Public Health Department.

General chair, scientific chair.

Rodolphe Thiébaut is a member of the scientific committee of the IWHOD International Workshop on HIV Observational Databases since 2013 (IWHOD) and chair in 2020-2021.

9.1.2 Scientific events: selection

Member of the conference program committees.

Boris Hejblum was a member of Scientific Program Committee of the 42nd Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) in Lyon (France).

Marta Avalos was a member of the Program Committee of the ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning, 2021 and the Machine Learning for Health – ML4H Workshop, 2021.

Laura Richert was a member of the Scientific Programm Committee of the 15ème conférence francophone d’EPIdémiologie CLINique (EPICLIN 2021).

Communication in conference.

M. Prague , M. Lavielle, Online, SAMBA: A novel method for fast automatic model building in nonlinear mixed-effects models 5th Virus dynamics workshop, online, 4-6 oct. 2021.

Alexandre M., Prague M., Thiébaut R. - Dynamics of the humoral immune response to a two-dose heterologous vaccine regimen against Ebola virus Online, PAGE Conference 2-7 Sept 2021.

Prague M., Hejblum B., Moireau P., Thiébaut R., Collin A., Using population approach to model COVID-19 epidemics in France: estimating the burden of SARS-Cov-2 and the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions. Online, PAGE Conference 2-7 Sept 2021.

Alexandre M, Thiébaut R, Prague M Accounting for time-dependant confounding variables in mechanistic ODE model: simulations and application to a vaccine trial, Online,, ISCB 19/22 july. 2021.

9.1.3 Journal

Member of the editorial boards.

Melanie Prague is associate editor of "International journal of Biostatistics" (since 2018).

Reviewer - reviewing activities.

Bayesian Analysis, PLOS Computational Biology, WIREs: Data Mining And Knowledge Discovery, Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, International Journal of Biostatistics (B Hejblum).

IMIA Yearb Med Inform (M Avalos)

Elife, CPT Pharmacometrics and System pharmacology, Journal of the Royal Society interface, Royal society open science (M Prague).

9.1.4 Invited talks

Alexandre M, Prague M., Thiébaut R, Viral dynamics as an outcome in HIV therapeutic vaccine trials: from AUC to dynamical modelling. Invited, Online, CMStat 18-20 Dec. 2021.

R Thiébaut: "Definition of surrogate marker by mechanistic modeling of the vaccine response applied to SARS-Cov-2" Journées GDR "Statistiques et santé", 21-22 October 2021, Virtual.

R Thiébaut 24th Neuromuscular Days - September 9-10, 2021, Marseille, Artificial intelligence: what will it change for tomorrow's health?

M. Prague, M. Alexandre, Celine El-Zhein, R. Thiébaut SARS-CoV-2 mechanistic correlates of protection: insight from modelling response to vaccine. In-host meetings York university 14 Oct. 2021.

Prague M., Hejblum B., Moireau P., Thiébaut R., Collin A., Multi-level modeling of COVID-19 epidemic dynamics in French regions, estimating the combined effects of multiple non-pharmaceutical interventions. Invited. Society of mathematical Biology conference. Online, 13/17 June 2021.

Prague M., Collin A., Wittkop L., Dutartre D., Clairon Q., Moireau P., Thiébaut R., Hejblum B. Leveraging random effects to estimate the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on epidemic dynamics across French regions Channel Network Conference, online, Invited 7-9 April 2021.

A. Collin, B Hejblum, C Vignals, L Lehot, R Thiébaut, P Moireau, M Prague Using population based Kalman estimator to model COVID-19 epidemics in France: estimating the burden of SARS-CoV-2 and the effects of NPI Equipe IAME, Inserm U1337 Paris 8 juillet 2021.

L. Richert: Eccmid 2021 congress (July 9-12, 2021), in the symposium "Update on new vaccines: "Immunogenicity, safety and recent progress with vector-based vaccines against Filoviruses".

R. Genuer, M Gauthier, 15th French-speaking conference of clinic epidemiology (EPICLIN 2021) June 8-11, 2021 in Marseille.

R. Genuer Paris, 08/10/2021 SAMM seminar, Paris 1 University.

R. Genuer Vannes10/12/2021 Vannes statistics meeting.

M. Avalos “A decision-making tool to adjust for abnormal levels in complete blood count tests”. Biomathematical Networks Workshop, 28th Oct 2021, Virtual/Valparaiso, Chile.

B. Hejblum, 8th Channel Network Conference 8 April 2021— Leveraging random effects to estimate the impact of NPIs on epidemic dynamics across French regions.

B. Hejblum, IA en Nouvelle Aquitaine (PfIA) 28 juin 2021— Reconnaissance automatique des populations cellulaires.

B. Hejblum, Journée Reproductibilité de la Recherche de l’INRAE 5 février 2021—Introduction à la reproductibilité pour la recherche en biométrie – définitions, enjeux et illustrations.

B. Hejblum, SMPGD 25 January 2021 — Distribution-free complex hypothesis testing for single-cell RNA-seq differential expression analysis.

C. Colas, B. Hejblum, P.Y. Odeyer, R. Thiébaut, C. Moulin-Frier, and M. Prague. EpidemiOptim: a toolbox for the optimization of control policies in epidemiological models. Google Deepmind Seminar, online, 14 janvier 2021.

B Hejblum, Séminaire SFdS “Covid, statistique et enseignement supérieur“, Lyon (France) — Enseigner et illustrer l'approche bayésienne avec la COVID-19.

B. Hejblum, workshop StatOmique, Paris (France) — Inférence de proportions cellulaires à partir de données RNA-seq avec CIBERSORT dans un essai clinique de suivi de patients COVID.

9.1.5 Scientific expertise

Rodolphe Thiébaut is an expert for INCA (Institut National du Cancer) for the PHRC (Programme hos- pitalier de recherche Clinique en cancérologie) and for the PRME (Programme de recherche médico-économique en cancérologie).

Rodolphe Thiébaut is a member of the commitee “Biologie des Systèmes et Cancer (Plan Cancer)”, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the “Institut Pierre Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique” (UPMC, Dir: Dominique Costagliola), a member of the independent committee of international trials ODYSSEY and SMILE, a member of the scientific council of Muraz’s Center (Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso).

Swiss National Science Foundation: Application reviewer in 2021 (2 projets) - M. Prague.

Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le SIDA et hépatites virales / ANRS MIE: Application reviewer for the CSS13 “Recherches cliniques” - M Prague (since 2019) and L Wittkop.

Boris Hejblum was a reviewer for PhD (CIFRE) application at the Agence Nationale Recherche Tehcnologie (ANRT).

9.1.6 Research administration

L Wittkop: Coordination of the ANRS MIE working group “Reinforcement of vaccine clinical trial platforms”.

Boris Hejblum is a member of the chairing committee of the Société Française de Biométrie, the French Chapter of the International Biometric Society.

Boris Hejblum is a board member of the “MAchine Learning et Intelligence Artificielle” (MALIA) group of the French Society of Statistics (SFdS).

Boris Hejblum is the correspondant for the French Biometric Society to the Channel Network region of the International Biometrics Society.

Marta Avalos is general secretary of the “Statistics and Sport” group of SFdS.

Rodolphe Thiébaut is the director of the department of Public Health in University of Bordeaux and a member of the Inserm Scientific Council.

Laura Richert is coordinator of the Clinical epidemiology module of the Clinical Investigations Center (CIC1401 Bordeaux).

Mélanie Prague is co-president of the communication group of French statistical society since 2018, in charge of redefining de condition of sponsoring SfdS by enterprises

Mélanie Prague is a member of the Bureau “Action Coordonnée Modélisation” ANRS MIE.

Mélanie Prague is a member of the "Commission de Développement Technologique" since 2016. Evaluation and expertise of grants applications to Inria for the transfer of technology, partnership with industries and development of new technological tools.

Mélanie Prague is a member of the "Commission Emploi-recherche" since 2017. Participation in the scientific committee for attribution of research grants for PhD students and Postdoctoral fellows.

9.2 Teaching - Supervision - Juries

9.2.1 Teaching

In class teaching
- Master: Rodolphe Thiébaut is head of the Digital Public Health graduate program, University of Bordeaux.
- Master: All the permanent members and several PhD students teaches in the Master of Public Health (M1 Santé publique, M2 Biostatistique and/or M2 Epidemiology) and the Digital Public Health graduate program, University of Bordeaux.
- Master: Marta Avalos teaches in the Master of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (1st and/or 2nd year), University of Bordeaux.
- Master: Marta Avalos teaches in the 2nd year of the Master of “Management international : Développement pharmaceutique, Production et Qualité opérationnelle”, University of Bordeaux.
- Bachelor: Laura Richert, Linda Wittkop and Edouard Lhomme teach in PACES and DFASM1-3 for Medical degree at Univ. Bordeaux.
- Master: Edouard Lhomme teaches in the Master of Vaccinology from basic immunology to social sciences of health (University Paris-Est Créteil, UPEC).
- Teaching unit coordination: Laura Richert, Linda Wittkop, Rodolphe Thiébaut, Robin Genuer, Boris Hejblum and Marta Avalos coordinate several teaching units of Master in Public Health (Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Public Health). Laura Richert coordinates the teaching unit "Experimental Designs" (M2 Epidemiology) and the teaching unit "critical article reading" (across 4 years of medical school), University of Bordeaux.
- Summer school: Mélanie Prague teaches in the summer school, University of Bordeaux.
- Boris Hejblum teaches a 3-day graduate course “Bayesian analysis for biomedical research” at the University of Copenhaguen.
- Mélanie Prague teaches "Missing Data" at ENSAI Master Level.
E-learning
- Master: Marta Avalos is head of the first year of the e-learning program of the Master of Public Health, University of Bordeaux.
- Master: Marta Avalos teaches in the e-learning program of the Master of Public Health (1st and 2nd year).
- ODL University Course: Robin Genuer is head of the Diplôme universitaire "Méthodes statistiques en santé". Mélanie Prague teaches in the Diplôme universitaire "Méthodes statistiques de régression en épidémiologie".
- ODL University Course: Edouard Lhomme co-coordinates and teaches in the Diplôme universitaire "Recherche Clinique".

9.2.2 Supervision

Marine Gauthier PhD thesis "Statistical methods for differential analysis of mass and single cell RNA-seq data applied in immunology" co-directed by Rodolphe Thiébaut & Boris Hejblum – defended on 02/12/21.
Mathieu Chalouni “Mortality and morbidity in HIV-HCV co-infected patients after sustained virological response for HCV “ (ANRS scholarship), supervised by Linda Wittkop – defended on 2/09/2021.
Marta Avalos supervised PhD student: Madelyn Rojas (University of Bordeaux). Home, Leisure, and Sports Injuries in France : Study of the risk factors associated with home injuries in the MAVIE cohort (Injury Epidemiology team, Inserm U1219, ED SP2) co-directed with Emmanuel Lagarde (Inserm).
PhD in progress: Iris Ganser, Evaluation of event-based internet biosurveillance for multi-regional detection of seasonal influenza onset, co-directed by David Buckeridge (McGill University) and Rodolphe Thiébaut, from Oct 2020.
PhD in progress: Benjamin Hivert, Hierarchical modeling for integrative analysis of high-dimensional, high-throughput, multi-modal cell and molecular data for immunology research, co-directed by Boris Hejblum and Rodolphe Thiébaut, from Oct 2020.
PhD Ipsen, CIFRE in progress: Hélène Savel "Statistical analysis of OMICS data for the treatment response prediction in early clinical development in a context of the generation of virtual patients to run In Silico Clinical Trials", directed by Laura Richert, from Oct 2020.
PhD in progress: Marie Alexandre "Mechanistic modeling and optimization of vaccine response in HIV and Ebola", co-directed by Mélanie PraguePrague and Rodolphe Thiébaut, from Oct 2018.
PhD in progress: Iris Ganser, Evaluation of event-based internet biosurveillance for multi-regional detection of seasonal influenza onset, co-directed by David Buckeridge (McGill University) and Rodolphe Thiébaut, from Oct 2020.
Marta Avalos supervised Master 2 internship students : Clémence Métayer (co-supervised with Laurence Delhaes, Inserm U1045) and Alexandre Naprous (co-supervised with Emmanuel Lagarde, Inserm U1219.
Boris Hejblum supervised Emma Avisou first year Master internship “ Analysis of the relationship between antibody levels and efficacy of different vaccines against the Covid-19 epidemic.
Boris Hejblum supervised Clément Bonnet first year Master internship “ Simulation of epidemiological curves of COVID-19 with a SEIRAH model integrated on an interactive web application with shiny and golem".
Mélanie Huchon " Variable selection methods for high dimensional survival data " M2 internship from 01/03/2021 to 31/08/2021, supervised by R Genuer.
Carole Vignals (with M Prague and L Wittkop) Master 2 Modeling the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV2.
Paul Hermabessiere –Master 2 (L Wittkop) Association of Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD) with morbidity and mortality in chronic viral hepatitis B treated in the ANRS CO22 HEPATHER cohort.
Gautier Boillet (with M Chalouni and L Wittkop) Comparison of the predictive performance of PAGE-B, FIB-4 and FibroScan scores for the occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma in chronically hepatitis B infected patients in the ANRS CO22 HEPATHER cohort.
Abdelghani Nehaus (Master 2 Bioinformatique Labri Université bordeaux Apr. – Aug. 2021): “Optimization of intervention strategies in epidemic models using deep reinforcement learning techniques“ supervised by M. Prague.

9.2.3 Juries

Robin Genuer HDR defense 12/01/21 "Contributions to random forest methods for various data analysis problems".
HDR Jury : Mickael White, Robin Genuer (R Thiébaut).
University thesis jury : Durier, Maryan Morel, Aurélie Bannay, Emma Gerard (R Thiébaut).
Jury for the practice thesis : Julien Coelho (R Thiébaut)
Jury recruitment iSTARS tenure, Lisbon (R Thiébaut).
University thesis jury: Linda Wittkop was rapporteur of Valérie Potard (Sorbonne University).
Linda Wittkop: Follow-up committee of Houreratou Barry, Iris Ganser.
R Genuer, rapporteur of the University thesis of Rico Blaser, defended on 07/12/2021 at the London School of Economics.
M Prague participated to the PHD jury of Antonio Goncalves, « Modélisation de l’effet de Nouvelles molécules anti-VHB chez la souris et chez l’homme. » Paris Diderot, Inserm U1137 IAME, Feb. 2021.
B Hejblum: University thesis jury of Shayma Bel Hechmi (Université Paris-Saclay, 12/07/2021).
Marta Avalos was involved in the PhD defense jury of Madelyn Rojas (University of Bordeaux) as PhD supervisor. Defense date: 1st June.
Marta Avalos is a member of the follow-up dissertation committee of 1 PhD student: Alexandre Conanec (Statistics, IMB, ED MI). Defense date: 10 November.
Edouard Lhomme, Laura Richert and Linda Wittkop participated to the juries of medical thesis defenses, Medical School of Bordeaux University.
Marta Avalos participated to the recruitment jury of of the Master of “Management international : Développement pharmaceutique, Production et Qualité opérationnelle”, University of Bordeaux.

9.3 Popularization

9.3.1 Articles and contents

Inria 2021 podcast: What is the purpose of digital health research? Inria Podcasts.

9.3.2 Education

M Avalos: Presentation in the “Salon Culture et Jeux Mathématiques” (May 27-30). Our talk (with C Derquenne and B Gelein, representing the SFdS group “Stat et Sport”) was titled "Du collège à l’université : la Science et le Sport font équipe." An article was also written for the review of this show.

M Prague: Salon Culture et Jeux mathématiques – 27/20 Mai 2021 Session Modélisation de L’épidémie de COVID19 en France. Salon Teratec : Atelier Maladies transmissibles ou troubles de la vision: évaluation, compréhension, correction et contrôle avec l’apport de la modélisation et du calcul. 22 juine 2021.

R Genuer: Salon Teratec, 22 june 2021.

9.3.3 Interventions

Media interventions:

Le monde 25/09/2021 Covid-19: despite five weeks of continuous decline in metropolitan France, epidemiologists remain cautious.
La tribune 19/7/2021 Artificial intelligence and epidemiology: two keys for public health?
France 2, JT 20h, 01/09/2021 Chronique Damien Mascret France TV Info.
Clues as to why women are more resistant to COVID-19. Le Parisien 06/01/2021 Covid-19.
Will western France remain spared? Le Parisien 12/02/2021 Covid-19.
Epidemiologists confused by the evolution of the epidemic. Le Monde 20/02/21.
The rise of variants under high surveillance. Le Monde 10/04/21.
Although exposed, teachers "protect themselves well" from Covid19. Le Parisien 04/29/2021.
Health restrictions lifted. Horizon 05/05/2021.
Five things to know about: Mixing and matching coronavirus vaccines . Le Monde 23/07/2021.
"Scientists divided on the possibility of removing the mask". Le Monde 29/07/2021.
"The race of vaccination in front of the fourth wave". Le Parisien 06/09/2021.
"Is there really a correlation between the incidence rate and vaccination?". La voix du Nord 4/11/2021.
"Covid-19: how long will it take to wear a mask?" . Medscape 11/22/2021.
"Covid-19 outbreak flares up again in Europe: update" Update.

Participants: Marta Avalos, Robin Genuer, Boris Hejblum, Edouard Lhomme, Mélanie Prague, Laura Richert, Rodolphe Thiébaut, Linda Wittkop.

10 Scientific production

10.1 Major publications

1 articleD.Denis Agniel and B. P.Boris P. Hejblum. Variance component score test for time-course gene set analysis of longitudinal RNA-seq data.Biostatistics1842017, 589-604
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2 articleH.Houreratou Barry, G.Gaudensia Mutua, H.Hannah Kibuuka, Z.Zacchaeus Anywaine, S.Sodiomon Sirima, N.Nicolas Meda, O.Omu Anzala, S.Serge Eholie, C.Christine Bétard, L.Laura Richert, C.Christine Lacabaratz, M. J.M. Juliana McElrath, S.Stephen De Rosa, K.Kristen Cohen, G.Georgi Shukarev, C.Cynthia Robinson, A.Auguste Gaddah, D.Dirk Heerwegh, V.Viki Bockstal, K.Kerstin Luhn, M.Maarten Leyssen, M.Macaya Douoguih and R.Rodolphe Thiébaut. Safety and immunogenicity of 2-dose heterologous Ad26.ZEBOV, MVA-BN-Filo Ebola vaccination in healthy and HIV-infected adults: A randomised, placebo-controlled Phase II clinical trial in Africa.PLoS Medicine1810October 2021, e1003813
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3 articleD.Daniel Commenges, C.Chariff Alkhassim, R.Raphael Gottardo, B. P.Boris P. Hejblum and R.Rodolphe Thiébaut. cytometree: A binary tree algorithm for automatic gating in cytometry analysis.Cytometry Part A93112018, 1132-1140
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4 bookD.Daniel Commenges and H.Helene Jacqmin-Gadda. Dynamical Biostatistical Models.Chapman and Hall/CRC2015
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5 articleA.Ana Jarne, D.Daniel Commenges, M.Mélanie Prague, Y.Yves Levy and R.Rodolphe Thiébaut. Modeling CD4 + T cells dynamics in HIV-infected patients receiving repeated cycles of exogenous Interleukin 7.Annals of Applied Statistics2017
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6 articleP.Paul Loubet, L.Linda Wittkop, E.Eric Tartour, B.Beatrice Parfait, B.Benoit Barrou, J.-Y.Jean-Yves Blay, M.Maryvonne Hourmant, M.Marie Lachâtre, D.-A.David-Axel Laplaud, M.Martine Laville, B.Bruno Laviolle, J.-D.Jean-Daniel Lelievre, J.Jacques Morel, S.Stéphanie Nguyen, J.-P.Jean-Philippe Spano, B.Benjamin Terrier, A.Anne Thiebaut, J.-F.Jean-Francois Viallard, F.François Vrtovsnik, X.Xavier De Lamballerie and O.Odile Launay. A French cohort for assessing COVID-19 vaccine responses in specific populations.Nature Medicine278July 2021, 1319-1321
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7 articleC.Chloé Pasin, F.François Dufour, L.Laura Villain, H.Huilong Zhang and R.Rodolphe Thiébaut. Controlling IL-7 injections in HIV-infected patients.Bulletin of Mathematical Biology2018
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8 articleA.Andrew Pollard, O.Odile Launay, J.-D.Jean-Daniel Lelievre, C.Christine Lacabaratz, S.Sophie Grande, N.Neil Goldstein, C.Cynthia Robinson, A.Auguste Gaddah, V.Viki Bockstal, M.Maarten Leyssen, K.Kerstin Luhn, L.Laura Richert, C.Christine Bétard, M.Malick Gibani, E.Elizabeth Clutterbuck, M.Matthew Snape, Y.Yves Levy, M.Macaya Douoguih, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut, C.Christopher McShane, B.Benoit Callendret, S.Stephanie Dincq, C.Camille Ferrault, S. P.Siew Pin Chai, M. P.Maire Paule Gyselen, M.Marleen van Looveren, S.Sylvia van Ballert, T.Tinne De Cnodder, L.Len Roza, C.Chiara Forcheh, K.Kate Stevens, C.Carmela Mastrandrea, S.Sanne de Ridder, R.Rachana Gundluru, N.Nathalie Swales, V.Vanessa Errijegers, W.Wouter Willems, V.Veronika Roorda, N.Nicola Orzabal, M.Magdalena Assenberg, K.Karine Vialatte, F.Frédéric Remblier, E.Elodie Porcar, A.Anton Ottavi, E.Eugénie Destandau, C.Christine Schwimmer, L.Laetitia Moinot, C.Cédrick Wallet, F.Florence Allais, H.Hélène Savel, N.Naouel Nedjaai, A.Anaïs Maugard, N.Nehza Lenzi, P.Pierre Loulergue, M.Mathilde Bahuaud, F.Fabrice Lainé, B.Bruno Laviolle, N.Nolwenn Boissel, E.Elise Thébault, D.David Vallée, J.-F.Jean-François Nicolas, S.Sophie Gilbert, K.Karima Dahel, K.Karen Sagorny, F.Frédéric Lucht, S.Stéphane Paul, A.Alice Haccourt Chanavat, F.Florent Charra, C.Catherine Mutter, M.Monique Lambour, C.Caroline Muller, A.Anne Hutt-Clauss, O.Olivia Aranda, L.Louis Bernard, V.Valérie Gissot, M.-C.Marie-Charlotte Hallouin-Bernard, A.Alain Goudeau, S.Steve Suzzoni, E.Eva Auostin, L.Lysiane Brick, J.-L.Jose-Luis Lopez-Zaragoza, G.Giovanna Melic, M.Murial Carvalho, C.Chrystel Chesnel, H.Hakim Hocini, A.Aurelie Wiedemann, L.Laurent Hanot, V.Véronique Rieux, A.Adeep Puri, T.Temitope Adeloye, M.Malcolm Boyce, J.Jeremy Dennison, I.Inge Loewenstein, O.Omar Sahgal, F.Frans van den Berg, W.Wendy Calvert, M.Mary Faldon, B.Bruce McClain, M.-L.Marie-Lousie Newell and G.Geert Molenberghs. Safety and immunogenicity of a two-dose heterologous Ad26.ZEBOV and MVA-BN-Filo Ebola vaccine regimen in adults in Europe (EBOVAC2): a randomised, observer-blind, participant-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial.The Lancet Infectious DiseasesNovember 2020
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9 articleM.Mélanie Prague, D.Daniel Commenges, J. M.Jon Michael Gran, B.Bruno Ledergerber, J.Jim Young, H.Hansjakob Furrer and R.Rodolphe Thiébaut. Dynamic models for estimating the effect of HAART on CD4 in observational studies: Application to the Aquitaine Cohort and the Swiss HIV Cohort Study.Biometrics2017
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10 articleM.Mélanie Prague and M.Marc Lavielle. SAMBA: a Novel Method for Fast Automatic Model Building in Nonlinear Mixed-Effects Models.CPT: Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology2021
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11 articleA.Anne Rechtien, L.Laura Richert, H.Hadrien Lorenzo, G.Gloria Martrus, B. P.Boris P. Hejblum, C.Christine Dahlke, R.Rahel Kasonta, M.Madeleine Zinser, H.Hans Stubbe, U.Urte Matschl, A.Ansgar Lohse, V.Verena Krähling, M.Markus Eickmann, S.Stephan Becker, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut, M.Marcus Altfeld and M.Marylyn Addo. Systems Vaccinology Identifies an Early Innate Immune Signature as a Correlate of Antibody Responses to the Ebola Vaccine rVSV-ZEBOV.Cell Reports 2092017, 2251 - 2261
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12 articleL.Laura Villain, D.Daniel Commenges, C.Chloé Pasin, M.Mélanie Prague and R.Rodolphe Thiébaut. Adaptive protocols based on predictions from a mechanistic model of the effect of IL7 on CD4 counts.Statistics in Medicine3822018, 221-235
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10.2 Publications of the year

International journals

13 articleN.Niyazi Acar, B. M.Bénédicte M. J. Merle, S.Soufiane Ajana, Z.Zhiguo He, S.Stéphane Grégoire, B. P.Boris P. Hejblum, L.Lucy Martine, B.Benjamin Buaud, A. M.Alain M. Bron, C. P.Catherine P. Creuzot-Garcher, J.Jean‐François Korobelnik, O.Olivier Berdeaux, H.Hélène Jacqmin-Gadda, L.Lionel Bretillon, C.Cécile Delcourt, S.Stéphanie Cabaret, P.Philippe Gain, A.Audrey Cougnard-Grégoire, M.-N.Marie-Noëlle Delyfer, C.Catherine Féart, V.Valérie Febvret, G. G.Gilles G. Thuret and C.Carole Vaysse. Predicting the retinal content in omega‐3 fatty acids for age‐related macular‐degeneration.Clinical and Translational Medicine117July 2021, e404
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14 articleS.Soufiane Ajana, A.Audrey Cougnard-Grégoire, J.Johanna Colijn, B. M.Bénédicte M.J. Merle, T.Timo Verzijden, P. T.Paulus T.V. M. de Jong, A.Albert Hofman, J.Johannes Vingerling, B.Boris Hejblum, J.-F.Jean-François Korobelnik, M.Magda Meester-Smoor, H.Hélène Jacqmin-Gadda, C. C.Caroline C.W. Klaver, C.Cecile Delcourt and ... EYE-RISK consortium. Predicting Progression to Advanced Age-Related Macular Degeneration from Clinical, Genetic, and Lifestyle Factors Using Machine Learning.Ophthalmology: Journal of The American Academy of Ophthalmology12842021, 587-597
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15 articleM.Marie Alexandre, M.Mélanie Prague and R.Rodolphe Thiébaut. Between group comparison of AUC in clinical trials with censored follow-up: Application to HIV therapeutic vaccines.Statistical Methods in Medical ResearchJuly 2021
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16 articleM.Moses Badio, E.Edouard Lhomme, M.Mark Kieh, A. H.Abdoul Habib Beavogui, S.Stephen Kennedy, S.Seydou Doumbia, B.Bailah Leigh, S.Samba Sow, A.Alpha Diallo, D.Daniela Fusco, M.Matthew Kirchoff, M.Monique Termote, R.Renaud Vatrinet, D.Deborah Wentworth, H.Helène Esperou, H. C.H. Clifford Lane, J.Jerome Pierson, D.Deborah Watson-Jones, C.Céline Roy, E.Eric D’Ortenzio, B.Brian Greenwood, G.Genevieve Chêne, L.Laura Richert, J.James Neaton, Y.Yazdan Yazdanpanah, C.Coulibaly Abdoulaye, J.Jamilia Aboulhab, P.Pauline Akoo, E.Esther Akpa, R.Robert Akpata, S.Sara Albert, B. M.Boni Maxime ALE, B.Benetta C. Andrews, S.Stephane Anoma, S.-S.Saw-San Assiandi, A.Augustin Augier, K.Ken Awuondo, A.Aminata Bagayoko, N.Nyasha Bakare, A.Abby Balde, L. M.Lamin Molecule Bangura, K.Kesha Barrington, E.Eric Barte de Saint Fare, B.Beth Baseler, A.Ali Bauder, C.Claire Bauduin, L.Luke Bawo, A.Abdoul Habib Beavogui, M.Michael Belson, M.Marion Bererd, T.Teedoh Beyslow, B.Blandine Binachon, J.Julie Blie, V.Viki Bockstal, Y.Youba Boire, P.Patricia Boison, F.Fatorma Bolay, A.Aliou Boly, A.Anne Gael Borg, D.Donna Bowers, S.Sarah Browne, B.Barbara Cagniard, K.Kelly Cahill, A.Aissata Abdoulaye Camara, K.Keira Camara, M.Modet Camara, C.Cécilia Campion, J.Jennifer Cash, S.Siew Pin Chai, F.Francois Chambelin, K.Keita Chieck, S.Séverine Ciancia, P.Papa Ndiaga Cisse, E.Elfrida Clide, C.Céline Colin, B.-A.Beth-Ann Coller, D.Djélikan Siaka Conde, K.Katherine Cone, L.Laurie Connor, N.Nicholas Connor, J.Joseph Boye Cooper, S.Sandrine Couffin-Cardiergues, F.Fatoumata Coulibaly, M.Mariam Coulibaly, S.Sandrine Dabakuyo-Yonli, D.Djeneba Dabitao, T.Thierry Damerval, B.Bionca Davis, G.Gibrilla Fadlu Deen, E.Eline Dekeyster, J.-F.Jean-François Delfraissy, C.Christelle Delmas, R.Rokia Dembele, M.Mahamadou Diakite, M.Mamadou Saliou Diallo, A.Ayouba Diarra, O.Oualy Diawara, B.Bonnie Dighero-kemp, S.Samba Diop, W.Waly Diouf, L.Laurie Doepel, M.Moussa Moise Doumbia, M.Macaya Douoguih, A.Alain Duchêne, M.Michael Duvenhage, R. E.Risa Eckes Eckes, A.Avril Egan, L.Luisa Enria, C.Cécile Etienne, A.Allison Eyler, S.Sylvain Faye, J.José Fernandez, S.Suzanne Fleck, V.Vemy Fofana, K.Kokulo Franklin, A.Auguste Gaddah, M.Marylène Gaignet, K.Katherine Gallagher, J.Julia Garcia Gozalbes, G.Greg Grandits, M.Maima Gray, A.Astrid Greijer, L.Louis Grue, B.Birgit Grund, O.Oumar Guindo, S.Swati Gupta, F.Fadima Haidara, B.Benjamin Hamze, E.Emma Hancox, G.Gavin Hart, J.-C.Jean-Christophe Hébert, E.Esther Heijnen, P.Patricia Hensley, L.Lisa Hensley, E.Elisabeth Higgs, T.Trudi Hilton, P.Preston Holley, M.Marie Hoover, N.Natasha Howard, M.Melissa Hughes, D.Dicko Ilo, J.Jen Imes, S.Skip Irvine, D.David Ishola, W.Will Jacob, Y.Yvonne Jato, M.Melvin Johnson, M.Morrison Jusu, A.Aboubacar Sidiki Kaba, M.Myriam KANTE, J.Judith Katoudi, S.Sakoba Keita, B.Babajide Jide Keshinro, B.Brian Khon, H.Hassan Kiawu, M.Matt Kirchoff, M.Mamoudou Kodio, L.Lamine Koivogui, T.Tania Kombi, S.Stacy Kopka, D.Dickens Kowuors, C.Christine Lacabaratz, B.Boris Lacarra, L.Laurie Lambert, C.Cliff Lane, S.Shona Lee, S.Shelley Lees, A.Annabelle Lefevre, F.Frederic Lemarcis, Y.Yves Lévy, C.Claire Levy-Marchal, J.Jemilla Lewally, M.Maarten Leyssen, K.Ken Liu, B.Brett Lowe, J.Julia Lysander, C.Claire Madelaine, I.Ibrah Mahamadou, D.Daniela Manno, J.Johnathan Marchand, S.Siegfried Marynissen, M. B.Moses B.F. Massaquoi, L.Laure Masson, C.Charly Matard, O.Onorato Matthew, J.John McCullough, N.Noemie Mercier, P.Pauline Michavila, T.Tracey Miller, A.Alejandra Miranda, S.Soumaya Mohamed, T.Tom Mooney, H.Hans Morsch, D.Dally Muamba, R.Rita Lukoo Ndamenyaa, D.Désiré Neboua, M.Micki Nelson, K.Kevin Newell, V.-K.Vinh-Kim Nguyen, L.Leslie Nielsen, M.Millimouno Niouma, K.Kim Offergeld, M.Matthew Onorato, U.Uma Onwuchekwa, S.Susan Orsega, I.Inmaculada Ortega-Perez, C.Cynthia Osborne, T.Tuda Otieno, S.Sushma Patel, N.Nathan Peiffer-Smadj, R.Robert Phillips, P.Peter Piot, M.Micheal Piziali, S.Stephany Pong, C.Calvin Proffitt, A.Alexandre Quach, C.Corina Ramers-verhoeven, N.Nadeeka Randunu, P.Priscille Rivière, C.Cynthia Robinson, G.Griet Van Roey, A.Amy Falk Russell, M.Mohamed Samai, Sibiry Samake, B.Ballan Sangare, I.Ibrahim Sanogo, Y.Yeya Sadio Sarro, S.Sadio Sarro, M.Mélanie Saville, S.Serge Sawadogo, M.Maxime Schvartz, C.Christine Schwimmer, F.Fatou Secka, J.Jacques Seraphin, D.Denise Shelley, S.Sophia Siddiqui, J.Jakub Simon, S.Shelly Simpson, B.Billy Muyisa Sivahera, I.Irvine Skip, K.Karen Slater, M.Mary Smolskis, E.Elizabeth Smout, E.Emily Snowden, A.-A.Anne-Aygline Soutthiphong, Y.Ydrissa Sow, D.Daniel Splinter, S.Simone Spreng, H.Helen Stapleton, J.Jeroen Stoop, M.Mary Sweeney, S.Sienneh Tamba, M.Mili Tapia, J.Jemee Tegli, R.Rodolphe THIEBAUT, G.Greg Thompson, J.John Tierney, A.Abdoulaye Touré, S.Stacey Traina, A.Awa Traore, M.Moussa Traore, T.Tijili Tyee, D.David Vallée, K.Katrien Van Der Donck, N.Nadia Verbruggen, C.Corine Vincent, S.Susan Vogel, C.Cedrick Wallet, C.Cecelia Wesseh, J.Jimmy Whitworth, A.Aurelie Wiedemann, W.Wouter Willems, J.Julian Williams, B.Barthalomew Wilson, N.Njoh Wissedi, J.Jayanthi Wolf, I.Ian Woods, A.Alie Wurie, D.Delphine Yamadjako, M.Marcel Yaradouno and Z.Zara Zeggani. Partnership for Research on Ebola VACcination (PREVAC): protocol of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2 clinical trial evaluating three vaccine strategies against Ebola in healthy volunteers in four West African countries.Trials221December 2021, 86
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17 articleT.Tangui Barré, P.Patrick Mercié, F.Fabienne Marcellin, L.Laure Esterle, C.Claudine Duvivier, E.Elina Teicher, M.Morgane BUREAU, J.Julie Chas, D.Dominique Salmon-Céron, P.Philippe Sogni, M. P.Maria Patrizia Carrieri, L.Linda Wittkop and C.Camelia Protopopescu. HCV Cure and Cannabis Abstinence Facilitate Tobacco Smoking Quit Attempts in HIV-HCV Co-Infected Patients (ANRS CO13 HEPAVIH Cohort Study).AIDS and Behavior2512December 2021, 4141-4153
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18 articleT.Tangui Barré, T.Teresa Rojas Rojas, K.Karine Lacombe, C.Camelia Protopopescu, I.Isabelle Poizot-Martin, M. L.Marie Libérée Nishimwe, D.David Zucman, L.Laure Esterle, E.Eric Billaud, H.Hugues Aumaitre, O.Olivier Bouchaud, D.David Rey, L.Lionel Piroth, D.Dominique Salmon-Ceron, L.Linda Wittkop, P.Philippe Sogni, M. P.Maria Patrizia Carrieri, L.Lawrence Serfaty and F.Fabienne Marcellin. Cannabis use and reduced risk of elevated fatty liver index in HIV-HCV co-infected patients: a longitudinal analysis (ANRS CO13 HEPAVIH).Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy199September 2021, 1147-1156
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19 articleH.Houreratou Barry, G.Gaudensia Mutua, H.Hannah Kibuuka, Z.Zacchaeus Anywaine, S.Sodiomon Sirima, N.Nicolas Meda, O.Omu Anzala, S.Serge Eholie, C.Christine Bétard, L.Laura Richert, C.Christine Lacabaratz, M. J.M. Juliana McElrath, S.Stephen De Rosa, K.Kristen Cohen, G.Georgi Shukarev, C.Cynthia Robinson, A.Auguste Gaddah, D.Dirk Heerwegh, V.Viki Bockstal, K.Kerstin Luhn, M.Maarten Leyssen, M.Macaya Douoguih and R.Rodolphe Thiébaut. Safety and immunogenicity of 2-dose heterologous Ad26.ZEBOV, MVA-BN-Filo Ebola vaccination in healthy and HIV-infected adults: A randomised, placebo-controlled Phase II clinical trial in Africa.PLoS Medicine1810October 2021, e1003813
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20 articleF.Fabienne Caby, M.Marguerite Guiguet, L.Laurence Weiss, A.Alan Winston, J.Jose Miro, D.Deborah Konopnicki, V.Vincent Le Moing, F.Fabrice Bonnet, P.Peter Reiss, C.Cristina Mussini, I.Isabelle Poizot-Martin, N.Ninon TAYLOR, A.Athanasios Skoutelis, L.Laurence Meyer, C.Cécile Goujard, B.Barbara Bartmeyer, C.Christoph Boesecke, A.Andrea Antinori, E.Eugenia Quiros-Roldan, L.Linda Wittkop, C.Casper FREDERIKSEN, A.Antonella Castagna, M. C.Maria Christine THURNHEER, V.Veronica Svedhem, S.Sophie Jose, D.Dominique Costagliola, M.Murielle Mary-Krause, S.Sophie Grabar, A.Ali Judd, R.Robert Zangerle, G.Giota Touloumi, J.Josiane Warszawski, F.François Dabis, M. M.Murielle Mary Krause, J.Jade Ghosn, C.Catherine Leport, F.Ferdinand Wit, M.Maria Prins, H.Heiner Bucher, D.Diana Gibb, G.Gerd Fätkenheuer, J.Julia Del Amo, N.Niels Obel, C.Claire Thorne, A.Amanda Mocroft, O.Ole Kirk, C.Christoph Stephan, S.Santiago Pérez-Hoyos, O.Osamah Hamouda, N.Nikoloz Chkhartishvili, A.Antoni Noguera-Julian, A. d.Antonella d’Arminio Monforte, N.Norbert Brockmeyer, L.Luis Prieto, P. R.Pablo Rojo Conejo, A.Antoni Soriano-Arandes, M.Manuel Battegay, R.Roger Kouyos, J.Jordi Casabona, D.Deborah Konopnick, T.Tessa Goetghebuer, A.Anders Sönnerborg, C.Carlo Torti, C.Caroline Sabin, R.Ramon Teira, M.Myriam Garrido and D.David Haerry. CD4/CD8 Ratio and the Risk of Kaposi Sarcoma or Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in the Context of Efficiently Treated Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: A Collaborative Analysis of 20 European Cohort Studies.Clinical Infectious Diseases731July 2021, 50-59
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21 articleL.Louis Capitaine, R.Robin Genuer and R.Rodolphe Thiébaut. Random forests for high-dimensional longitudinal data.Statistical Methods in Medical Research301January 2021, 166-184
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22 articleM. Y.Madelyn Yiseth Rojas Castro, L.Ludivine Orriols, B.Benjamin Contrand, M.Marion Dupuy, C.Catherine Sztal-Kutas, M.Marta Avalos and E.Emmanuel Lagarde. Cohort profile: MAVIE a web-based prospective cohort study of home, leisure, and sports injuries in France.PLoS ONE163March 2021, e0248162
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23 articleM.Mathieu Chalouni, S.Stanislas Pol, P.Philippe Sogni, H.Helene Fontaine, K.Karine Lacombe, J.Jean‐Marc Lacombe, L.Laure Esterle, C.Céline Dorival, M.Marc Bourlière, F.Firouzé Bani‐Sadr, V.Victor Ledinghen, D.David Zucman, D.Dominique Larrey, D.Dominique Salmon, F.Fabrice Carrat, L.Linda Wittkop, V.V. Martinez, P.P. Trimoulet, J.J. Izopet, L.Lawrence Serfaty, V.V. Paradis, B.B. Spire, P.Patrizia Carrieri, M.M.A. Valantin, G.G. Pialoux, J.J. Chas, I.I. Poizot‐Martin, K.K. Barange, A.A. Naqvi, E.E. Rosenthal, A.A. Bicart‐See, O.O. Bouchaud, A.A. Gervais, C.C. Lascoux‐Combe, C.C. Goujard, C.C. Duvivier, D.D. Neau, P.P. Morlat, L.L. Meyer, F.F. Boufassa, B.B. Autran, A.A.M. Roque, C.C. Solas, D.D. Costagliola, L.L. Piroth, A.A. Simon, F.F. Boué, P.P. Miailhes, E.Eric Billaud, H.H. Aumaître, D.D. Rey, G.G. Peytavin, V.Ventzislava Petrov‐sanchez, A.A. Levier, R.R. Usubillaga, B.B. Terris, P.P. Tremeaux, C.C. Katlama, H.H. Stitou, P.P. Cacoub, S.S. Nafissa, Y.Y. Benhamou, F.F. Charlotte, S.Slim Fourati, O.O. Zaegel, H.H. Laroche, C.C. Tamalet, P.P. Callard, F.F. Bendjaballah, C.C. Amiel, C.C. Le Pendeven, B.B. Marchou, L.Laurent Alric, S.Sophie Metivier, J.J. Selves, F.F. Larroquette, V.V. Rio, J.J. Haudebourg, M.M.C. Saint‐Paul, A.A. De Monte, V.V. Giordanengo, C.C. Partouche, A.A. Martin, M.M. Ziol, Y.Y. Baazia, V.V. Iwaka‐Bande, A.A. Gerber, M.M. Uzan, D.D. Garipuy, M.M.J. Ferro‐Collados, F.F. Nicot, Y.Y. Yazdanpanah, H.H. Adle‐Biassette, G.G. Alexandre, J.J.M. Molina, P.P. Bertheau, M.M.L. Chaix, C.C. Delaugerre, S.S. Maylin, J.J. Krause, P.P.M. Girard, D.D. Wendum, P.P. Cervera, J.J. Adam, C.C. Viala, D.D. Vittecocq, Y.Y. Quertainmont, E.E. Teicher, C.C. Pallier, O.O. Lortholary, C.C. Rouzaud, J.J. Lourenco, F.F. Touam, C.C. Louisin, V.V. Avettand‐Fenoel, E.E. GARDIENNET, A.A. Mélard, A.A. Ochoa, E.E. Blanchard, S.S. Castet‐Lafarie, C.C. CAZANAVE, D.D. Malvy, M.M. Dupon, H.H. Dutronc, F.F. Dauchy, L.L. Lacaze‐Buzy, A.A. Desclaux, P.P. Bioulac‐Sage, S.S. Reigadas, D.D. Lacoste, F.F. Bonnet, N.N. Bernard, M.M. Hessamfar, J.J. Paccalin, C.C. Martell, M.M. Pertusa, M.M. Vandenhende, P.P. Mercié, T.T. Pistone, M.M.C. Receveur, M.M. Méchain, P.P. Duffau, C.C. RIVOISY, I.I. Faure, S.S. Caldato, P.P. Bellecave, C.C. TUMIOTTO, J.J.L. Pellegrin, J.J.F. Viallard, E.E. Lazzaro, C.C. Greib, C.C. MAJERHOLC, M.M. Brollo, E.E. Farfour, J.J. Polo Devoto, I.I. Kansau, V.V. Chambrin, C.C. Pignon, L.L. Berroukeche, R.R. Fior, S.S. Abgrall, M.M. Favier, C.C. DEBACK, Y.Y. Lévy, S.S. Dominguez, J.J.D. Lelièvre, A.A.S. Lascaux, G.G. Melica, F.François Raffi, C.C. Allavena, V.V. Reliquet, D.David Boutoille, C.C. Biron, M.M. Lefebvre, N.N. Hall, S.S. Bouchez, A.A. Rodallec, L.L. Le Guen, C.C. Hemon, D.D. Peyramond, C.C. Chidiac, F.F. Ader, F.F. Biron, A.A. Boibieux, L.L. Cotte, T.T. Ferry, T.T. Perpoint, J.J. Koffi, F.Fabien Zoulim, F.François Bailly, P.P. Lack, M.Marianne Maynard, S.S. Radenne, M.M. Amiri, F.F. Valour, C.C. 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25 articleM.Marie Chavent, R.Robin Genuer and J.Jerome Saracco. Combining clustering of variables and feature selection using random forests.Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation502January 2021, 426-445
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26 articleQ.Quentin Clairon. A regularization method for the parameter estimation problem in ordinary differential equations via discrete optimal control theory.Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference210January 2021, 1-19
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27 articleC.Cédric Colas, B. P.Boris P. Hejblum, S.Sébastien Rouillon, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut, P.-Y.Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, C.Clément Moulin-Frier and M.Mélanie Prague. EpidemiOptim: a Toolbox for the Optimization of Control Policies in Epidemiological Models.Journal of Artificial Intelligence ResearchJuly 2021
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29 articleT.Thomas Ferté, S.Sébastien Cossin, T.Thierry Schaeverbeke, T.Thomas Barnetche, V.Vianney Jouhet and B.Boris Hejblum. Automatic phenotyping of electronical health record: PheVis algorithm.Journal of Biomedical Informatics1172021, 103746
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30 articleF.Florence Francis, R.Raphael Enaud, P.Perrine Soret, F.Florian Lussac-Sorton, M.Marta Avalos, S.Stéphanie Bui, M.Michael Fayon, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut and L.Laurence Delhaes. New Insights in Microbial Species Predicting Lung Function Decline in CF: Lessons from the MucoFong Project.Journal of Clinical Medicine1016August 2021, 3725
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31 articleH.Hannah Kaminski, G.Gabriel Marseres, N.Nathalie Yared, M.-J.Marie-Julie Nokin, V.Vincent Pitard, A.Atika Zouine, I.Isabelle Garrigue, S.Severine Loizon, M.Myriam Capone, X.Xavier Gauthereau, M.Maria Mamani, R.Roxane COUERON, R.Raul Duran, B.Benoit Pinson, I.Isabelle Pellegrin, R.Rodolphe THIEBAUT, L.Lionel Couzi, P.Pierre Merville and J.Julie Dechanet-Merville. mTOR Inhibitors Prevent CMV Infection through the Restoration of Functional αβ and γδ T cells in Kidney Transplantation..Journal of the American Society of NephrologyNovember 2021
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32 articleF.Fabien Le-Marec, H.Hélène Chaussade, G.Gaëlle Coureau, O.Olivier Leleux, D.Didier Neau, E.Estibaliz Lazaro, B.Brice Amadeo, P.Pierre Duffau, H.Hélène Ferrand, C.Carine Courtault, A.-S.Anne-Sophie Foucan, L.Linda Wittkop and F.Fabrice Bonnet. Incidence of lung and HPV-associated malignancies in HIV-infected patients.AIDSPublish Ahead of Print2021
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33 articleS.Sophie Lefevre-Arbogast, B. P.Boris P. Hejblum, C.Catherine Helmer, C.C. Klose, C.Claudine Manach, D. Y.D Y Low, M.M. Urpi-Sarda, C.C. Andres-Lacueva, R.R. Gonzalez-Dominguez, L.L Aigner, B.B Altendorfer, P. J.P J Lucassen, S. R.S R Ruigrok, C.C De Lucia, A.A Du Preez, C.Cécile Proust-Lima, S.S Thuret, A.A Korosi and C.Cecilia Samieri. Early signature in the blood lipidome associated with subsequent cognitive decline in the elderly: A case-control analysis nested within the Three-City cohort study: EBioMedicine.EBioMedicine64January 2021, 103216
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34 articleY.Y. Lévy, C.C. Lacabaratz, E.E. Lhomme, A.A. Wiedemann, C.C. Bauduin, C.C. Fenwick, E.E. Foucat, M.M. Surenaud, L.L. Guillaumat, V.V. Boilet, V.V. Rieux, O.O. Bouchaud, P.-M.P.-M. Girard, J.-M.J.-M. Molina, P.P. Morlat, L.L. Hocqueloux, L.L. Richert, G.G. Pantaleo, J.J. Lelièvre and R.R. Thiébaut. A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Efficacy Study of a Prime Boost Therapeutic Vaccination Strategy in HIV-1-Infected Individuals: VRI02 ANRS 149 LIGHT Phase II Trial.Journal of Virology959April 2021
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35 articleY.Yves Lévy, A.Aurélie Wiedemann, B. P.Boris P. Hejblum, M.Mélany Durand, C.Cécile Lefebvre, M.Mathieu Surénaud, C.Christine Lacabaratz, M.Matthieu Perreau, E.Emile Foucat, M.Marie Déchenaud, P.Pascaline Tisserand, F.Fabiola Blengio, B.Benjamin Hivert, M.Marine Gauthier, M.Minerva Cervantes-Gonzalez, D.Delphine Bachelet, C.Cédric Laouénan, L.Lila Bouadma, J.-F.Jean-François Timsit, Y.Yazdan Yazdanpanah, G.Giuseppe Pantaleo, H.Hakim Hocini and R.Rodolphe Thiébaut. CD177, a specific marker of neutrophil activation, is associated with coronavirus disease 2019 severity and death.iScience247July 2021, 102711
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36 articleL.Lin Lin and B.Boris Hejblum. Bayesian mixture models for cytometry data analysis.Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics1342021, e1535
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37 articleH.Hadrien Lorenzo, O.Olivier Cloarec, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut and J.Jérôme Saracco. Data-Driven Sparse Partial Least Squares.Statistical Analysis and Data MiningDecember 2021
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38 articleM.Melissa Macalli, M.Marie Navarro, M.Massimiliano Orri, M.Marie Tournier, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut, S.Sylvana Côté and C.Christophe Tzourio. A machine learning approach for predicting suicidal thoughts and behaviours among college students.Scientific Reports111December 2021
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39 articleF.Fabienne Marcellin, V.Vincent Di Beo, L.Laure Esterle, S.Sophie Abgrall, G.Gilles Pialoux, T.Tangui Barré, L.Linda Wittkop, D.Dominique Salmon‐Ceron, P.Philippe Sogni, P.Patrizia Carrieri, F.F Roustant, P.P Platterier, I.I Kmiec, L.L Traore, S.S Lepuil, S.S Parlier, V.V Sicart‐Payssan, E.E Bedel, S.S Anriamiandrisoa, C.C Pomes, M.M Mole, C.C Bolliot, P.P Catalan, M.M Mebarki, A.A Adda‐Lievin, P.P Thilbaut, Y.Y Ousidhoum, F.F.Z Makhoukhi, O.O Braik, R.R Bayoud, C.C Gatey, M.M.P Pietri, V.V Le Baut, R.R Ben Rayana, D.D Bornarel, C.C Chesnel, D.D Beniken, M.M Pauchard, S.S Akel, C.C Lions, A.A Ivanova, A.A‐S Ritleg, C.C Debreux, L.L Chalal, J.J Zelie, H.H Hue, A.A Soria, M.M Cavellec, S.S Breau, A.A Joulie, P.P Fisher, S.S Gohier, D.D Croisier‐Bertin, S.S Ogoudjobi, C.C Brochier, V.V Thoirain‐Galvan, M.M Le Cam, M.M Chalouni, V.V Conte, L.L Dequae‐Merchadou, M.M Desvallees, C.C Gilbert, S.S Gillet, R.R Knight, T.T Lemboub, L.L Michel, M.M Mora, C.C Protopopescu, P.P Roux, S.S Tezkratt, C.C Ramier, A.A Sow, M.M Bureau, P.P Trimoulet, J.J Izopet, L.L Serfaty, V.V Paradis, B.B Spire, V.V. Valantin, J.J Chas, O.O Zaegel‐Faucher, K.K Barange, A.A Naqvi, E.E Rosenthal, A.A Bicart‐See, O.O Bouchaud, a.a gervais, C.C Lascoux‐Combe, C.C Goujard, K.K Lacombe, C.C Duvivier, D.D Neau, P.P Morlat, F.F Bani‐Sadr, L.L Meyer, F.F Boufassa, B.B Autran, A.A.M Roque, C.C Solas, H.H Fontaine, D.D Costagliola, L.L Piroth, A.A Simon, D.D Zucman, F.F Boué, P.P Miailhes, E.E Billaud, H.H Aumaître, D.D Rey, G.G Peytavin, V.V Petrov‐Sanchez, A.A Levier, R.R. Usubillaga, B.B Terris, P.P Tremeaux, C.C Katlama, H.H Stitou, P.P Cacoub, S.S Nafissa, Y.Y Benhamou, F.F Charlotte, S.S Fourati, I.I Poizot‐Martin, o.o zaegel, H.H Laroche, C.C Tamalet, P.P Callard, F.F Bendjaballah, C.C Amiel, C.C Le Pendeven, B.B Marchou, L.L Alric, S.S Metivier, J.J Selves, F.F Larroquette, V.V Rio, J.J Haudebourg, M.M.C Saint‐Paul, A.A De Monte, V.V Giordanengo, C.C Partouche, A.A Martin, M.M Ziol, Y.Y Baazia, V.V Iwaka‐Bande, A.A Gerber, M.M Uzan, D.D Garipuy, M.M.J Ferro‐Collados, F.F Nicot, Y.Y Yazdanpanah, H.H Adle‐Biassette, G.G Alexandre, J.J.M Molina, P.P Bertheau, M.M.L Chaix, C.C Delaugerre, S.S Maylin, J.J Bottero, J.J Krause, P.P.M Girard, D.D Wendum, P.P Cervera, J.J Adam, C.C Viala, D.D Vittecocq, Y.Y Quertainmont, E.E Teicher, C.C Pallier, O.O Lortholary, C.C Rouzaud, J.J Lourenco, F.F Touam, C.C Louisin, V.V Avettand‐Fenoel, E.E Gardiennet, A.A Mélard, A.A Ochoa, E.E Blanchard, S.S Castet‐Lafarie, C.C Cazanave, D.D Malvy, M.M Dupon, H.H Dutronc, F.F Dauchy, L.L Lacaze‐Buzy, A.A Desclaux, P.P Bioulac‐Sage, S.S Reigadas, D.D Lacoste, F.F Bonnet, N.N Bernard, M.M Hessamfar, J.J.F Paccalin, C.C Martell, M.M.C Pertusa, M.M Vandenhende, P.P Mercié, T.T Pistone, M.M.C Receveur, M.M Méchain, P.P Duffau, C.C Rivoisy, I.I Faure, S.S Caldato, P.P Bellecave, C.C Tumiotto, J.J.L Pellegrin, J.J.F Viallard, E.E Lazzaro, C.C Greib, C.C Majerholc, M.M Brollo, E.E Farfour, J.J Polo Devoto, I.I Kansau, V.V Chambrin, C.C Pignon, L.L Berroukeche, R.R Fior, V.V Martinez, M.M Favier, C.C Deback, Y.Y Lévy, S.S Dominguez, J.J.D Lelièvre, A.A.S Lascaux, G.G Melica, F.F Raffi, C.C Allavena, V.V Reliquet, D.D Boutoille, C.C Biron, M.M Lefebvre, N.N Hall, S.S Bouchez, A.A Rodallec, L.L Le Guen, C.C Hemon, D.D Peyramond, C.C Chidiac, F.F Ader, F.F Biron, A.A Boibieux, L.L Cotte, T.T FERRY, T.T Perpoint, J.J Koffi, F.F Zoulim, F.F Bailly, P.P Lack, M.M Maynard, S.S Radenne, M.M AMIRI, F.F Valour, C.C Augustin‐Normand, C.C Scholtes, T.T.T Le‐Thi, P.P Chavanet, M.M Duong Van Huyen, M.M Buisson, A.A Waldner‐Combernoux, S.S Mahy, A.A Salmon Rousseau, C.C Martins, S.S Galim, D.D Lambert, Y.Y Nguyen, J.J.L Berger, M.M Hentzien, V.V Brodard, M.M Partisani, M.M.L Batard, C.C Cheneau, M.M Priester, C.C Bernard‐Henry, E.E de Mautort, P.P Fischer, P.P Gantner and S.S Fafi‐Kremer. Post‐HCV cure self‐reported changes in physical activity, eating behaviours, and fatigue in people living with HIV (ANRS CO13 HEPAVIH).Journal of Viral Hepatitis2811November 2021, 1665-1667
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40 articleR.Romain Marlin, V.Veronique Godot, S.Sylvain Cardinaud, M.Mathilde Galhaut, S.Severin Coleon, S.Sandra Zurawski, N.Nathalie Dereuddre-Bosquet, M.Mariangela Cavarelli, A.-S.Anne-Sophie Gallouët, P.Pauline Maisonnasse, L.Léa Dupaty, C.Craig Fenwick, T.Thibaut Naninck, J.Julien Lemaitre, M.Mario Gomez-Pacheco, N.Nidhal Kahlaoui, V.Vanessa Contreras, F.Francis Relouzat, R.Raphaël Ho Tsong Fang, Z.Zhiqing Wang, J.Jerome Ellis, C.Catherine Chapon, M.Mireille Centlivre, A.Aurelie Wiedemann, C.Christine Lacabaratz, M.Mathieu Surenaud, I.Inga Szurgot, P.Peter Liljeström, D.Delphine Planas, T.Timothée Bruel, o.olivier schwartz, S.Sylvie VAN DER WERF, G.Giuseppe Pantaleo, M.Mélanie Prague, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut, G.Gerard Zurawski, Y.Yves Lévy and R.Roger Le Grand. Targeting SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain to cells expressing CD40 improves protection to infection in convalescent macaques.Nature Communications12December 2021, 5215
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41 articleI.Ilaria Montagni, N.Nicolas Roussel, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut and C.Christophe Tzourio. Health Care Students’ Knowledge of and Attitudes, Beliefs, and Practices Toward the French COVID-19 App: Cross-sectional Questionnaire Study.Journal of Medical Internet Research2332021, e26399
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42 articleK.Karine Moreau, A.Aurélie Desseix, C.Christine Germain, P.Pierre Merville, L.Lionel Couzi, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut and P.Philippe Chauveau. Correction to: Evolution of body composition following successful kidney transplantation is strongly influenced by physical activity: results of the CORPOS study.BMC Nephrology221December 2021
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43 articleI.Inès Osman, S.Sadok Ben Yahia and G.Gayo Diallo. Ontology Integration: Approaches and Challenging Issues.Information Fusion71July 2021, 38-63
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44 articleV.Viviane Philipps, B. P.Boris P. Hejblum, M.Mélanie Prague, D.Daniel Commenges and C.Cécile Proust-Lima. Robust and Efficient Optimization Using a Marquardt-Levenberg Algorithm with R Package marqLevAlg.The R Journal2021
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45 articleM.Mélanie Prague and M.Marc Lavielle. SAMBA: a Novel Method for Fast Automatic Model Building in Nonlinear Mixed-Effects Models.CPT: Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology2021
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46 articleM. Y.Madelyn Yiseth Rojas Castro, M.Marta Avalos, B.Benjamin Contrand, M.Marion Dupuy, C.Catherine Sztal-Kutas, L.Ludivine Orriols and E.Emmanuel Lagarde. Health conditions and the risk of home injury in French adults: results from a prospective study of the MAVIE cohort.Injury PreventionAugust 2021, 6
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47 articleM. Y.Madelyn Yiseth Rojas Castro, L.Ludivine Orriols, D.Dunia Basha Sakr, B.Benjamin Contrand, M.Marion Dupuy, M.Marina Travanca, C.Catherine Sztal-Kutas, M.Marta Avalos and E.Emmanuel Lagarde. A web-based prospective cohort study of home, leisure, school and sports injuries in France: a descriptive analysis.Injury Epidemiology81August 2021
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48 articleA.Assia Samri, M.Mathieu Chalouni, J.Julià Blanco, G.Georg Behrens, P.Peter Kelleher, M.Marta Massanella, F.Fareed Ahmad, B.Bonaventura Clotet, A.Andreas Plettenberg, C.Christine Katlama, L.Laura Richert, F.François Raffi, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut and B.Brigitte Autran. Influence of the Antiretroviral Regimen on the Early Changes in Plasma HIV RNA and Immune Activation at Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy in Naïve HIV-1–Infected Patients.Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes8652021, e146-e149
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49 articleB. K.Boun Kim Tan, M.Mathieu Chalouni, D. S.Dominique Salmon Ceron, A.Alexandre Cinaud, L.Laure Esterle, M. A.Marc Arthur Loko, C.Christine Katlama, I.Isabelle Poizot-Martin, D.Didier Neau, J.Julie Chas, P.Philippe Morlat, E.Eric Rosenthal, K.Karine Lacombe, A.Alissa Naqvi, K.Karl Barange, O.Olivier Bouchaud, A.Anne Gervais, C.Caroline Lascoux-Combe, D.Daniel Garipuy, L.Laurent Alric, C.Cécile Goujard, P.Patrick Miailhes, H.Hugues Aumaitre, C.Claudine Duvivier, A.Anne Simon, J.-L.Jose-Luis Lopez-Zaragoza, D.David Zucman, F.François Raffi, E.Estibaliz Lazaro, D.David Rey, L.Lionel Piroth, F.François Boué, C.Camille Gilbert, F.Firouzé Bani-Sadr, F.François Dabis, P.Philippe Sogni, L.Linda Wittkop and F.Franck Boccara. Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Events in Patients Infected With Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis C Virus.Clinical Infectious Diseases729May 2021, e215-e223
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50 articleC.Carole Vignals, D. W.David W Dick, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut, L.Linda Wittkop, M.Mélanie Prague and J. M.Jane M Heffernan. Barrier Gesture Relaxation during Vaccination Campaign in France: Modelling Impact of Waning Immunity.COVID122021, 472-488
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51 articleH. R.Helen R. Wagstaffe, G.Giada Susannini, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut, L.Laura Richert, Y.Yves Lévy, Y.Yves Lévy, V.Viki Bockstal, J. N.Jeroen N. Stoop, K.Kerstin Luhn, M.Macaya Douoguih, E. M.Eleanor M Riley, C.Christine Lacabaratz and M. R.Martin R Goodier. Durable natural killer cell responses after heterologous two-dose Ebola vaccination: NPJ Vaccines.NPJ vaccines61January 2021, 19
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52 articleH.Harrison Zhang, B. P.Boris P. Hejblum, G.Griffin Weber, N.Nathan Palmer, S.Susanne Churchill, P.Peter Szolovits, S.Shawn Murphy, K.Katherine Liao, I.Isaac Kohane and T.Tianxi Cai. ATLAS: an automated association test using probabilistically linked health records with application to genetic studies.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association2812December 2021, 2582-2592
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National peer-reviewed Conferences

53 inproceedingsL.Loïck Bourdois, M.Marta Avalos, G.Gabrielle Chenais, B.Benjamin Contrand, C.Cédric Gil-Jardiné, A.Antoine Guennec-Jacques, P.Philippe Revel, F.Frantz Thiessard, H.Hélène Touchais and E.Emmanuel Lagarde. Automatic processing of emergency room notes: focus on de-identification.PFIA 2021 - Santé et I.A.Bordeaux / Virtual, France2021
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54 inproceedingsG.Gabrielle Chenais, H.Hélène Touchais, M.Marta Avalos, L.Loïck Bourdois, P.Philippe Revel, C.Cédric Gil-Jardiné and E.Emmanuel Lagarde. Performance of BERT models for French in the classification of textual data from emergency room visits.PFIA 2021 - Journée Santé et I.A.Bordeaux / Virtual, France2021
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Conferences without proceedings

55 inproceedingsM.Marta Avalos, H.Hélène Touchais and M.Marcela Henríquez-Henríquez. Una herramienta de toma de decisiones para ajustar los niveles anormales en las pruebas de conteo sanguíneo completo.Workshop en REDES BiomatemáticasValparaiso/Virtual, ChileOctober 2021
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Edition (books, proceedings, special issue of a journal)

56 bookM.Marta Avalos, H.Hélène Touchais and M.Marcela Henríquez-Henríquez. Optimising criteria for manual smear review following automated blood count analysis: A machine learning approach.1372Advances in Intelligent Systems and ComputingVirtual, United KingdomSpringer2021
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57 bookL.Loick Bourdois, M.Marta Avalos, G.Gabrielle Chenais, F.Frantz Thiessard, P.Philippe Revel, C.Cédric Gil-Jardiné and E.Emmanuel Lagarde. De-identification of Emergency Medical Records in French: Survey and Comparison of State-of-the-Art Automated Systems.Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society341LibraryPress@UFMay 2021
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Doctoral dissertations and habilitation theses

58 thesisM.Mathieu Chalouni. Sustained virologic response to Direct Acting Antivirals therapies and HCV-related disease progression in terms of mortality, liver morbidity and non-liver related morbidity, in HIV/HCV co-infected patients.Université de BordeauxSeptember 2021
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59 thesisM.Marine Gauthier. Statistical methods for differential analysis of bulk and single-cell RNA-seq data applied in immunology.Université de BordeauxDecember 2021
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60 thesisR.Robin Genuer. Contributions to Random Forests Methods for several Data Analysis Problems.Université de BordeauxJanuary 2021
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Reports & preprints

61 miscM.Marie Alexandre, R.Romain Marlin, M.Mélanie Prague, S.Séverin Coleon, N.Nidhal Kahlaoui, S.Sylvain Cardinaud, T.Thibaut Naninck, B.Benoit Delache, M.Mathieu Surenaud, M.Mathilde Galhaut, N.Nathalie Dereuddre-Bosquet, M.Mariangela Cavarelli, P.Pauline Maisonnasse, M.Mireille Centlivre, C.Christine Lacabaratz, A.Aurelie Wiedemann, S.Sandra Zurawski, G.Gerard Zurawski, O.Olivier Schwartz, R. W.Rogier W Sanders, R.Roger Le Grand, Y.Yves Levy and R.Rodolphe Thiébaut. SARS-CoV-2 mechanistic correlates of protection: insight from modelling response to vaccines.December 2021
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62 miscQ.Quentin Clairon, C.Chloé Pasin, I.Irene Balelli, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut and M.Mélanie Prague. Parameter estimation in nonlinear mixed effect models based on ordinary differential equations: An optimal control approach.September 2021
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63 miscQ.Quentin Clairon and A.Adeline Samson. Optimal control for parameter estimation in partially observed hypoelliptic stochastic differential equations.August 2021
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64 miscA.Annabelle Collin, B. P.Boris P. Hejblum, C.Carole Vignals, L.Laurent Lehot, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut, P.Philippe Moireau and M.MéLanie Prague. Using Population Based Kalman Estimator to Model COVID-19 Epidemic in France: Estimating the Effects of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on the Dynamics of Epidemic.December 2021
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65 miscA.Annabelle Collin, M.Mélanie Prague and P.Philippe Moireau. Estimation for dynamical systems using a population-based Kalman filter – Applications in computational biology.November 2021
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66 miscA.Anthony Devaux, R.Robin Genuer, K.Karine Pérès and C.Cécile Proust-Lima. Individual dynamic prediction of clinical endpoint from large dimensional longitudinal biomarker history: a landmark approach.January 2022
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67 miscM.Marine Gauthier, D.Denis Agniel, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut and B. P.Boris P. Hejblum. Distribution-free complex hypothesis testing for single-cell RNA-seq differential expression analysis.December 2021
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68 miscI.Ismaila Ouedraogo, B. M.Borlli Michel J Some, R.Roland Benedikter and G.Gayo Diallo. Mobile technology as a health literacy enabler in African rural areas: a literature review.February 2021
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69 miscD.Darawan Rinchai, S.Sara Deola, G.Gabriele Zoppoli, B. S.Basirudeen Syed Ahamed Kabeer, S.Sara Taleb, I.Igor Pavlovski, S.Selma Maacha, G.Giusy Gentilcore, M.Mohammed Toufiq, L.Lisa Mathew, L.Li Liu, F. R.Fazulur Rehaman Vempalli, G.Ghada Mubarak, S.Stephan Lorenz, I.Irene Sivieri, G.Gabriella Cirmena, C.Chiara Dentone, P.Paola Cuccarolo, D.Daniele Giacobbe, F.Federico Baldi, A.Alberto Garbarino, B.Benedetta Cigolini, P.Paolo Cremonesi, M.Michele Bedognetti, A.Alberto Ballestrero, M.Matteo Bassetti, B. P.Boris P. Hejblum, T.Tracy Augustine, N. V.Nicholas Van Panhuys, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut, R.Ricardo Branco, T.Tracey Chew, M.Maryam Shojaei, K.Kirsty Short, C.Carl Feng, S.Susu Zughaier, A. D.Andrea De Maria, B.Benjamin Tang, A. A.Ali Ait Hssain, D.Davide Bedognetti, J.-C.Jean-Charles Grivel and D.Damien Chaussabel. High temporal resolution transcriptomic profiling delineates distinct patterns of interferon response following Covid-19 mRNA vaccination and SARS-CoV2 infection.2021
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70 miscL.Laura Villain, T.Thomas Ferté, R.Rodolphe Thiébaut and B. P.Boris P. Hejblum. Gene Set Analysis for time-to-event outcome with the Generalized Berk–Jones statistic.December 2021
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10.3 Other

Patents

71 patentM.Marta Avalos and H.Hélène Touchais. Protection of digital creations (APP): CBCTool - Package R CBCtool - version 0.0.0.9000, 31-12-2020.IDDN.FR.001.480010.000.S.P.2021.000.31235FranceNovember 2021
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10.4 Cited publications

72 articleR. M.R. M. Granich, C. F.C. F. Gilks, C.C. Dye, K. M.K. M. De Cock and B. G.B. G. Williams. Universal voluntary HIV testing with immediate antiretroviral therapy as a strategy for elimination of HIV transmission: a mathematical model.Lancet37396570140 6736 English2009, 48-57
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73 articleL.L. Hood and Q.Q. Tian. Systems approaches to biology and disease enable translational systems medicine.Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics1042012, 181--5
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74 articleC.C. Lewden, D.D. Salmon, P.P. Morlat, S.S. Bevilacqua, E.E. Jougla, F.F. Bonnet, L.L. Heripret, D.D. Costagliola, T.T. May and G.G. Chêne. Causes of death among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected adults in the era of potent antiretroviral therapy: emerging role of hepatitis and cancers, persistent role of AIDS.International Journal of Epidemiology3410300 5771 English2005, 121-130
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75 articleB.B. Pulendran. Learning immunology from the yellow fever vaccine: innate immunity to systems vaccinology.Nature Reviews Immunology9102009, 741-7
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76 articleC.C. Schubert. Systems immunology: complexity captured.Nature47373452011, 113-4
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SISTM - 2021

SISTM - 2021

Keywords

Computer Science and Digital Science

Other Research Topics and Application Domains

1 Team members, visitors, external collaborators

Research Scientists

Faculty Members

Post-Doctoral Fellows

PhD Students

Technical Staff

Interns and Apprentices

Administrative Assistants

Visiting Scientists

External Collaborator

2 Overall objectives

3 Research program

3.1 Axis 1 - High-Dimensional Statistical Learning

3.2 Axis 2 - Mechanistic learning

3.3 Axis 3 - Translational vaccinology

4 Application domains

4.1 Systems Biology and Translational medicine

4.2 HIV immunotherapies

4.3 Translational vaccinology

5 Highlights of the year

5.1 Ebola vaccine development

5.2 Response to COVID19

5.3 Awards

6 New software and platforms

6.1 New software

6.1.1 PheVIS

6.1.2 sGBJ

6.1.3 FrechForest

6.1.4 EpidemiOptim

6.1.5 VASI_Cyto

6.1.6 ccdf

7 New results

7.1 Methods for transcriptomic studies

7.2 Translational vaccinology

7.2.1 Vaccine clinical trials

7.2.2 Covid treatment trials

7.2.3 Systems immunology analyses

7.2.4 Methodological developments for vaccine trials

8 Partnerships and cooperations

8.1 International initiatives

8.1.1 Associate Teams in the framework of an Inria International Lab or in the framework of an Inria International Program

DYNAMHIC

8.1.2 Participation in other International Programs

8.2 International research visitors

8.2.1 Visits of international scientists

Jane Heffernan

8.3 European initiatives

8.3.1 FP7 and H2020 projects

8.3.2 Other european programs/initiatives

8.4 National initiatives

8.4.1 Expert Appraisals

8.4.2 Various Partnership

9 Dissemination

9.1 Promoting scientific activities

9.1.1 Scientific events: organisation

General chair, scientific chair.

9.1.2 Scientific events: selection

Member of the conference program committees.

Communication in conference.

9.1.3 Journal

Member of the editorial boards.

Reviewer - reviewing activities.

9.1.4 Invited talks

9.1.5 Scientific expertise

9.1.6 Research administration

9.2 Teaching - Supervision - Juries

9.2.1 Teaching

9.2.2 Supervision

9.2.3 Juries

9.3 Popularization

9.3.1 Articles and contents

9.3.2 Education

9.3.3 Interventions

10 Scientific production

10.1 Major publications