The Institute for Interdisciplinary Neurosciences (University of Bordeaux, CNRS) and Alvéole (CNRS spin-off) joined forces to create, in January 2021, the Joint Laboratory “Cell Organ-izers”.
Gathered around the same expertise, the control of the cellular microenvironment, Alvéole and the IINS are joining forces to meet two common challenges: accelerating research and facilitating access to technological innovations by converting them into commercial solutions.
Since 2010, through three research contracts and a successful technology transfer (the PRIMO system and the LIMAP technology), the Institute for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience of the University of Bordeaux (IINS) and Alvéole have established a close research and development collaboration in the fields of bioengineering and in vitro cell models. The creation of a Joint Laboratory opens up new perspectives for this fruitful partnership between Alvéole and the IINS.
The importance of the cellular microenvironment
Both specializing in the control of the cellular microenvironment and facing the same issues, the two entities Alvéole and IINS are joining forces in a joint laboratory around two challenges: accelerating their progress in controlling the cellular environment and facilitating access to these innovations by converting them into business solutions that are easy to use and with reproducible results.
By joining their research efforts in the Joint Lab “Cell Organ-izers”, Alvéole and the IINS hope to become key players in the development of bioengineering tools for more reliable human cell models in vitro for fundamental research, modeling of diseases and drug testing.
Led by six members from Vincent Studer’s lab and Alvéole R&D team, with complementary expertises (cell culture, material physics, biochemistry, imaging), the Cell-Organ-izers research partnership is focused on improving in vitro human cell models through:
Vincent Studer
Director of research CNRS (DR2), Cell Organ-izers Joint Laboratory co-director
Louise Bonnemay
Research Scientist Alvéole, Cell Organ-izers Joint Laboratory co-director
Pierre-Olivier Strale
Senior Scientist Alvéole
Aurélien Pasturel
Research Scientist Alvéole
Nathalie Piette
PhD student (CIFRE Alvéole)
Sarah Rahmati
PhD student (CNRS EU ITN)
“Methode generique pour la structuration d’hydrogels” (2018) Vincent Studer, Aurélien Pasturel. Publication : WO2020002495A1 (2020)
“Substrat pour l’impression de proteines” (2018) Vincent Studer, Louise Bonnemay. Publication : FR3079233A1 (2019)
“Spectral 3d microscopy in large field” (2017)Vincent Studer, Remi Galland. Publication : FR3075401A1 (2019)
“Impression d’un motif adhesif sur un support anti-
“Dispositif de greffage micro-structure de proteines sur un substrat” (2012) Vincent Studer, Ammar Azioune. Publication : FR2988093B1 (2014)
“I am extremely proud and happy of setting up the “Cell Organ-izers” Joint Laboratory as the result of the work carried out for several years with Vincent Studer’s team and our R&D team. It is the result of a common and necessary vision of a strong partnership between public authorities and industrial companies. The material resources, the dynamic and international ecosystem of academic research, coupled with the industrial and commercial execution of Alvéole are crucial assets to our success. By being in permanent contact with the best of international research, we preserve our ability to offer tools that are ever more suited to the needs of researchers.”