Governance

The governance of the BACAP database consists of the coordination committee, the steering committee, and the scientific council.
Coordination committee
Composition
- The coordinator,
- The research director of the Toulouse University Hospital or one of their representatives,
- The project coordination manager.
Mission
- To instruct the integration of new centers and the exclusion of participating centers,
- To implement the decisions of the scientific council and the steering committee,
- To ensure the animation of the network,
- To plan the budget allocation of obtained funding,
- To establish an annual activity report based on reports written by the BACAP centers,
- To appoint the project manager for the valorization of results,
- To draft an annual scientific report of ongoing ancillary projects.
Steering committee
Composition
- The coordinator,
- The project coordination manager,
- The scientific responsible of each center or one of their representatives.
Missions
- To plan the operational activities of the network,
- To be a source of proposals for the scientific committee,
- To ensure operational arbitration of the network (mode of operation),
- To guarantee compliance with regulations and established rules,
- To ensure the sustainability of the network's tools (IT, database),
- To define the common standards required for samples (procedures, operating modes, etc.) and associated data,
- To define the access modalities to biological resources (requests, fees, embargoes, contracts, etc.),
- To examine requests for membership in the network from new sites before submitting them to the Scientific Committee.
Scientific council
Composition
- The coordinator,
- The elected representative of each college (gastroenterologist, oncologist, digestive surgeon, pathologist, CRB manager, researcher, and epidemiologist) or their alternate,
- The project coordination manager,
- The head of the data management center.
- College: gastroenterologist, oncologist, digestive surgeon, pathologist, CRB manager, researcher, and epidemiologist.
Missions
- To scientifically evaluate ancillary projects,
- To define the scientific orientations and strategy of the network,
- To evaluate the activity report,
- To determine access rights to data and/or identify relevant samples for studies conducted by the centers,
- To determine the conditions for access and availability of data and samples for public or private third parties,
- To determine the content of mentions related to the Partnership and the BACAP database within publications and communications.