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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) hosted a group of 56 young visitors from the Cité Scolaire Internationale (CSI), a school in Lyon, France, on 16 June. During their visit, the students, aged 13 and 14 years, toured the IARC biobank and laboratories and found out how citizens participate in and contribute to scientific research by donating biological samples and sharing their personal health data. The visit included a debating exercise on the pros and cons of broad consent when donating samples, and the majority of the students agreed that with appropriate safeguards, they would willingly donate biological samples for scientific research.
The visit ended with an interactive careers question-and-answer session in which IARC scientists described their day-to-day jobs, education, and career paths.
Before the school’s visit to the IARC headquarters, the CSI hosted Dr Eszter Tuboly, a biobanker, and Ms Heather Coombs, a science communicator from IARC’s Learning and Capacity-Building Branch, for an interactive session with the students focusing on the role of biobanks in open science and IARC’s cancer prevention mission.
The visit was part of the communication activities of the European Union-funded Human Exposome Assessment Platform (HEAP) project and represents an important step in public outreach for IARC.
