Publisher
The site maineanjouresearch.org is published in a personal capacity by:
Prof. Benoît Brilland, publication director
Service de Néphrologie-Dialyse-Transplantation
4 rue Larrey, 49100 Angers, France
benoit.brilland@chu-angers.fr
The domain name maineanjouresearch.org is registered in the name of Benoît Brilland.
Nature of this site
This site presents the work of the Maine-Anjou Research Group, an informal research group bringing together clinicians and scientists around ANCA-associated vasculitis and autoimmune kidney diseases. It is published in a personal capacity and is not an official website of Angers University Hospital, the University of Angers, CRCI²NA or any other institution. The affiliations mentioned on this site are given for information only and do not commit those institutions.
Hosting
The site is hosted by the publisher on a virtual private server rented from OVH, a French simplified joint-stock company whose registered office is at 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France, registered with the Lille Métropole trade and companies register under number 424 761 419 (ovhcloud.com).
Personal data
Data controller: Benoît Brilland, at the contact details given above.
This site has no form, no user account, no advertising and no advertising tracker. No data is sold or passed on to third parties for commercial purposes.
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Publications page
The publication list is assembled in your browser, which queries the PubMed E-utilities services operated by the National Library of Medicine (National Institutes of Health, United States). Your IP address is therefore transmitted to that service when you visit this page. It is the only page on the site that opens a connection to a third party.
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Intellectual property and credits
- Text, structure, illustrations and photographs: Benoît Brilland, unless otherwise stated.
- Logo design: Gaetan Mallet.
- Typefaces: Inter, copyright 2016 The Inter Project Authors, and Space Grotesk, copyright 2020 The Space Grotesk Project Authors, both distributed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
- Map of France: geometries derived from the world-atlas dataset (copyright 2013-2019 Michael Bostock, ISC license), itself built from Natural Earth, in the public domain.
- Bibliographic data: PubMed, National Library of Medicine. See the NCBI disclaimer and copyright notice. The National Library of Medicine does not endorse or recommend this site.
Bibliographic references point to the original publications, the rights to which belong to their respective authors and publishers. Original content from this site may be quoted with due credit; any other reuse requires the publisher's prior agreement.
Scientific content
This site presents research activities and research results. It does not provide individual medical advice and is a substitute neither for a consultation nor for clinical judgement. The interactive tools made available, including the DANGER score, are intended for research.
Last updated: 20 August 2026.