Institut Galien Paris-Saclay

The Institut Galien Paris-Saclay (UMR CNRS 8612), founded in 1986, develops micro and nanotechnologies applied to medicine and diagnostics in the health field. The unique characteristic of the unit is to bring together academics from different disciplines (chemistry, physical chemistry, galenics, analytical chemistry, and biology). Our research themes are organized according to four major challenges:

1- Tame physiological barriers

2- Design intelligent, programmable, activable and biocompatible materials

3- Develop predictive models for the formation of new objects and their transport across biological barriers (tissue, cellular and subcellular)

4- Combine chemistry, physical chemistry and formulation for diagnostics and imaging purposes.

To address these challenges, the Institut Galien Paris-Saclay possesses a wide range of state-of-the-art research equipment gathered into several platforms driven by highly qualified scientific officers and technicians (chromatographic analysis, cell culture, manipulation of radio elements, instrumentation workshop, molecular interactions, rheology). The Institut Galien Paris-Saclay attracts every year a large number of doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers from around the world. We accommodates 3 members of the Institut Universitaire de France, 1 academic with an ERC grant, 5 members of the Academy of Pharmacy and 1 member of the Academy of Sciences. The current five-year period will see our move to the Saclay plateau, which will encourage new collaborations that we hope will be fruitful.

Myriam Taverna