20,000 Volunteers for Medical Research

GAZEL
20,000 Volunteers for Medical Research

http://www.gazel.inserm.fr/fr/
[email protected]
CCAS, IReSP, various grants
CCAS, IReSP, various grants

Data collection ongoing| Data analysis ongoing| Closed to new patients

French and English

France

Primary Samples: Stabilised samples (frozen or fixed)

If available for a subset please specify number of patients and % of total cohort

Socioprofessionnal, lifestyle, environment, morbidity

No

Other health assessment

Yes – funding applied for/funding awarded

Neurodegenerative disease in general

about 5000

No
No
Data held on computer based records
No
Yes
Apply to PI or co-ordinator at resource| National access| International access| Access to industry| Resource has own ethics approval so usually no need for separate external ethics approval
No requirement to make data publicly available
Yes

Yes
It was designed as an “open epidemiologic laboratory” characterized by a broad coverage of health problems and determinants and accessible to the community of researchers
Gazel originality is the diversity of the collected health problems, the high number of data collection waves and the multiplicity of the data collected from various sources in a permanent way
more than 250
Occupational exposure and cognitive functioning-Claudine Berr, Inserm| Socioeconomic consequences of alcohol consumption-Marie Zins, Inserm| Depression and CV diseases-Cédric Leogne, HEGP

More than 15,000 participants
Collection of medicla records for a subset
Prospective cohort|Longitudinal

Yes
The whole cohort
01/01/1989
Follow-up still active; no end planned
Data collection ongoing| Data analysis ongoing| Closed to new patients
Through links to other records or registers (e.g dental records, police records etc)

Data summarised in database

No
No
No
20,000 Volunteers for Medical Research
Already possible

Population Cohorts
France
Neurodegenerative disease in general
2016