Key events
2012
2012 JANUARY An innovation in fibromyalgia management Centaure Metrix, is making available to the medical community a gait test to characterize patients with fibromyalgia. The test is genuinely complementary to classic clinical tests. It allows physicians to identify patient sub-groups (...)
2011
2011 JANUARY Genopole®’s Board of Directors reappoints the management team At its January 6 meeting, the Genopole® Board of Directors reappointed Thierry Mandon as President, Pierre Tambourin as CEO and Françoise Olier as Deputy CEO to further 3-year mandates. Novagali Pharma looks to treat dry (...)
2010
2010 JANUARY • Fluidgim and IntegraGen join forces to create a genetic analysis service and european demonstration lab. Fluidigm, the inventor of integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs), has joined with IntegraGen SA, one of France’s leading providers of genetic research testing services, to bring (...)
2009
JANUARY With assistance from the Genopole Medicen European Office, the companies Innavirvax and VitamFero submit two European grant applications. The Genopole-incubated start-up Innavirvax has submitted a grant application to the European Union for the THEVA project, the goal of which is to (...)
2008
2008 JANUARY As part of the First International Colloquium on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research which took place from January 31 to February 2 at the Genocentre in Evry, the Colloquium’s Organizing Committee and Genopole® co-organized a public debate on human embryonic stem cell research, the (...)
2007
2007 January: In collaboration with other researchers from France and the Netherlands, a research group at the National Genotyping Center identifies the gene responsible for the accumulation of triglycerides in NLSDM (neutral lipid storage disease with myopathy). The results are published (...)
2006
2006 January 10: Novagali Pharma announces the successful completion of a Phase II clinical study of its formulation of cyclosporine A, an innovative medication for the treatment of severe dry eye syndrome. January 19: MacDermol (a French start-up developing products for the esthetic, (...)
2005
2005 January January 2nd: Commissioning of the production platform for prototype low-density biochips (the OpenBiochip Center) as part of the collaboration between Genopole® and Serial Genetics. January 31st: As part of Biolink, Genopole® organizes a “Business Development Road Show”. This (...)
2004
2004 January Intégragen discovers a gene linked to autism. February February 4th: to celebrate its fifth birthday, Genopole® organizes a symposium devoted to current and future medical applications of life science technology. The objective: provide a comprehensive overview of (...)
2003
2003 Visit of Nicole Fontaine, Minister of the Industrial sector, meets the actors of biotech firms in Genopole® Evry . Presentation of the “Review of the French Genopole System” by Frank Gannon (Embo) and visit of Genopole® Evry by Claudie Haigneré, Minister of Research and New Technologies (...)
2002
2002 Visit of Laurent Fabius, Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, and Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg, Minister of Research announced measures to help new biotech companies and also the creation of the Genopole® and “Consortium National de la Recherche en Génomique” (GIP) . Creation of (...)
2001
2001 The draft sequence of the human genome, within the framework of the international public consortium of the “Human Genome Project” consortium, is made available simultaneously with the one developed by the privately-held American company, Celera Genomics. Within the consortium, the Centre (...)
2000
2000 Development of Informatics at Evry with the establishment of Infobiogen (Centre national de ressources en bioinformatique) and opening of the Laboratoire de méthodes informatiques (LaMI), followed by the Laboratoire Statistique et Genome, the Unité de Méthodologie Statistique et (...)
1999
1999 The Ministry of Research launches, within the framework of the Genomics program Génoplante, a federating program of plant genomics associating public and private partners equally and piloted from Evry. Creation of GenOdyssee, the first company to be “hatched” inincubated by Genopole®. (...)
1998
1998 Creation of the Genopole® association: Claude Allegre, Minister of National Education, Research and Technology entrusts Pierre Tambourin with this mission. Ministers Claude Allegre and Dominique Strauss-Kahn are present at the official launch of Genopole®. Neurotech, the first (...)
1987-1997
1990 April 7th: The Association Française contre les Myopathies (AFM) decides to create the Généthon laboratory. December 8th: Hubert Curien, Minister of Research and Technology, inaugurates Généthon 1991 Creation of the université d’Evry Val-d’Essonne 1992 First physical maps of the (...)
