The governance of BACAP is composed by the coordination, the steering committee and the scientific committee.
The coordination
Composition :
- The coordinator ;
- The research director of the Toulouse hospital or his representing collaborator ;
- The project manager ;
Missions :
- Determines the inclusion of new centers and possible exclusion of participating centers ;
- Applies the Steering and Scientific Committees' decisions
- Ensures the network's running ;
- Plans the financial repartition ;
- Establishes the annual activity report ;
- Nominates the prime contractor for the exploitation of results.
Steering Committee :
Composition :
- The coordinator ;
- The project manager ;
- Each teams referee
Missions :
- Plans network operational activities ;
- Source of proposal for the scientific committee
- Applies the Scientific Committee's decisions
- Ensures the network's operational arbitrations (functioning system)
- Guarantees the respect of regulations and the established rules
- Ensures sustainability of network's tools (IT, databases…)
- Defines the common required « standards » for the samples (procedures, operating mode…) and the associated data (items…)
- Defines the terms to access the biological resources (requests, rate, embargo, contracts…)
- Examines the adhesion request from new sites to the network, before submitting to Scientific Com
Scientific Committee :
Composition :
- The Coordinator ;
- One elected representative of each body
- The project manager ;
- The CTD manager ;
- External representatives (learned societies, cooperating group, jurist, the Council of elders (3 international experts on pancreatology- in pending).
Bodies: gastroenterologist, oncologist, digestive surgeon, pathologist, CRB manager, researcher, epidemiologist.
Missions :
- Scientific evaluation on ancillary projects ;
- Definies the scientific and strategic orientations of the network
- Evaluates the activity report
- Arbitrates the access conditions and the requests to make available the biological resources and/or the data
- Determines the results exploitation rules.
The Council of Elders
The Council of Elders is a body consisting of 3 international experts in basic and clinical pancreatology, approached once a year by the Scientific Committee, in order to bring their external and overall vision, to think about the network's scientific and strategic orientations.
