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Expertise networks in biology

IBiSA

The GIS IBiSA is a scientific interest group for Biology, Health and Agronomy infrastructures that has for main objective to coordinate the national policy of certification and to support platforms and infrastructures in life science. 

BioGenOuest

BioGenouest is an interregional network of technology platforms in life and environmental sciences that federates research units in western France and coordinates 34 technological platforms open to the entire scientific community.

François Bonamy Federative Research Institute

The François Bonamy Federative Research Institute  gathers Nantes’ research laboratories and technological facilities in biology and health. It provides access to a complete ensemble of equipment and skills for fields ranging from imaging to transgenesis in rodents, animal facilities and genomic/bioinformatics analysis.

Technological infrastructures

Synchrotron Soleil & European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)

Synchrotron Soleil and ESRF are both high-technology facilities composed of an electromagnetic radiation source covering a wide range of energies, from the infrared to the x-rays, and a research laboratory at the cutting edge of experimental techniques dedicated to matter analysis down to the atomic scale.

Center of Excellence Nikon Nantes (CENN)

The CENN gathers APEX, the Nikon Company and the MicropiCell Platform of Nantes University in a state-of-the-art facility that offers scientists an access to Nikon’s advanced imaging instruments such as super-resolution and multiphoton microscopy, as well as an invaluable opportunity to exchange ideas in both cutting-edge research and optical expertise.

Clinical research and reference centers for diseases

Nantes University Hospital (NUH)

With respect to our interest for human diseases and our position in preclinical research fields, close and multiple links have been established with the NUH. These links resulted in well-established research collaborations with the departments of Orthopedics, Infantile Surgery and Clinic Research, and with the Clinical Investigation Center in Biotherapy.

Reference centers

Our scientific work also benefits from close interactions with expert clinicians from National Reference Centers for Rare Diseases :

• Necker University Hospital - National Reference Center for Inherited Metabolic Diseases (MAMEA)
• Raymond Poincaré University Hospital - Reference Center for Neuromuscular Diseases Nord-Est-Ile de France
• Bordeaux University Hospital - Reference Center for Neuromuscular Diseases Atlantique-Occitanie-Caraïbe (AOC)

BIOREGATE - Research, Formation and Innovation regional cluster (RFI)

Bioregate is a “Loire Valley” regional cluster composed by more than 20 scientific teams, 10 private companies and 300 people working in the field of regenerative medicine.

Research infrastructures

Boisbonne Center, Oniris

The Boisbonne center, located at Oniris, is an internationally recognized facility for Gene and Cell therapy on animal models of human diseases. PAnTher has maintained close collaboration with this center for more than 20 years.

NeurATRIS, translational research infrastructure for innovative therapies in Neuroscience

NeurATRIS is a national Research Infrastructure with internationally recognized expertise and skills in neuroimaging, pharmacology and biotherapies designed to accelerate the translation of discoveries in basic research into medical innovations for the treatment of diseases of the nervous system. NeurATRIS is a component of the European Infrastructure EATRIS.

CESTI, a European center for transplantation and immunotherapy sciences

CESTI is a federative project that aims at generating medical research activities close to the patient care level, in order to provide innovative diagnostic and/or therapeutic strategies to control immune response and to induce tolerance to foreign vascularized organs, tissues, cells or vectorized therapeutic genes.

Emerg'INRAE

APEX is a scientific partner of the Emerg'INRAE national research infrastructure for the control of animal and zoonotic emerging infectious diseases through in vivo investigation. Emerg'INRAE is coordinated by INRAE and integrates 4 technological platforms: APEX, the Experimental Unit of Rodents and Fish (IERP), Anaxem and the Experimental Infectiology Platform (PFIE).