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project info
Start date: 1 July 2015
End date: 31 October 2018
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 1 301 900,00 €
EU contribution: 611 045,17 € (46,93%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2020
Managing authority: Conseil régional Centre-Val de Loire

BIO-TARGET: Development and transfer of preclinical murine models for the search for therapeutic targets and characterisation of new drugs

Pharmaceutical companies close their research centres and increasingly outsource their preclinical research and development to external structures. This subcontracting represents an important potential market and therefore a real opportunity for economic development. The BIO TARGET project aims to develop knowledge in basic or applied research, and the Transfer of skills to local companies in order to strengthen the service offerings offered to pharma or biotech companies. The academic research conducted at INEM in the field of inflammation and allergies, allows us to anticipate needs, to develop services for Biotech and health industries. Technology transfer to regional SMEs specialising in the pharmaceutical industry, such as Artimmune and Key-Obs, is essential to the valorisation of this work. INEM is at the crossroads of many academic and preclinical research needs. Bio-TARGET is a structuring project that will go beyond existing bilateral projects. The area of research concerns inflammation, immune responses and infection response. Severe inflammatory diseases such as asthma or rheumatoid arthritis are in constant progression. Inflammatory cytokines are at the heart of these pathologies. Pharmaceutical companies have been looking for decades to develop inhibitors...

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