Specialization: Healthcare & health technologies
Advantages
This center boasts:
Excellent transport infrastructures:
 | directly linked to the beltway ("Porte du Vinatier" exit), to the A43 (Lyon/Grenoble/Turin) and A7 (Lyon/Marseille) freeways, and to the A6 (Lyon/Paris/Lille) and A42 (Lyon/Geneva) freeways via the Rocade Est (East-side beltway),
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| very close to the Lyon-Saint-Exupéry international airport and to the Lyon-Bron business airport,
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| less than 15 minutes from the three high-speed train (TGV) stations: Lyon Part-Dieu, Lyon Perrache and Lyon-Saint-Exupéry,
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| and LYON BIOPARC is served by the tramway. |
A unique university hospital environment:
| a potential of 6,000 beds (private and public sectors included),
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| 1,100 biomedical researchers, and 15 INSERM (health and medical research institute) units,
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| 12,000 medical students,
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| 14,500 people in 171 health sector companies,
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| a "campus-like" effect, with the IFR Laënnec research institute next to LYON BIOPARC (450 pathophysiology researchers). |
Skills areas
| Medical imaging
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| Therapy using physical agents
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| Computer-assisted surgery
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| Biotherapy
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| Model building
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| Functional genomics |
"National Reference Centers"
| Staphylococci and legionella
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| Influenza and enterovirus
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| The Health library |
Businesses and organizations already well installed
| Merk-Santé Boiron ISS/IMM |
Federative research institutes
| Léon Bérard cancer research center
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| CNRS (national scientific research center)
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| HCL (Hospices Civils de Lyon)
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| INRA (national agronomic research)
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| INSA (applied sciences institute)
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| INSERM (health and medical research)
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| Claude Bernard University |
The WHO International Cancer Research Center
Research platforms for Life Sciences
| Joint transgenesis centers - Laënnec site
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| IARC (ANIMET): metabolic MNR platform - Laënnec site
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| ANIPATH: histopathology platform - Laënnec site
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| ANIMAGE: imaging platform - Neuro/cardio site
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| Joint cellular and molecular imaging center (CeCIL) - Laënnec site
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| Genotyping platform
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| IARC [financed by the American NCI]
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| P3 laboratories
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| Neuro and Laënnec (virology) sites
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| P4 laboratory
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| Gerland Biopole |
Clinical research structures and facilities
| Clinical Investigation Center - Cardio site
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| Research center into human nutrition - HEH site
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| Biological Resource Centers
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| Center of Medical Exploration and Research with Positron Emission (PET, functional MRI, MEG) - Neuro/Cardio site |
The Lyon BIOPARC
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