FIELDS OF EXCELLENCE

World renowned teams, internationally acclaimed research centers, high performance care facilities, universities all contribute to the efficient operation of the health channel.

Academic research: diversity and excellence

Over 300 research laboratories and academic research teams:

The Regional University Hospital Centre of Lille – 2nd largest Medical Center in France

The Lille Pasteur Institute

The Lille Genopole - a focus for genomics

The Oscar Lambret Center – over 600 researchers and doctors specialized in Cancer Treatment

The largest Blood Transfusion Center in France

The Lille Biology Institute

Over 20 units of scientific research organization CNRS and medical research organization INSERM

The University of Lille II – more than 550 researchers in life sciences

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fields of excellence

Drug discovery, neurosciences, infectious diseases, oncology, human genetics, biomaterials, diagnostics, blood and blood-related products.

Focus on the Nutrition Health & Longevity Cluster

The Nutrition Health & Longevity cluster brings together food industry companies, biotech businesses, private and public research centres

Federating main theme: Prevention via nutrition and treatment of metabolic disorders, cardiovascular and ageing-related diseases.

R&D themes

Formulation and development of foods and functional ingredients

Improving the quality of food products, particularly through industrial processing processes (quality of their nutritional composition, preventing the occurrence of allergens, etc.)

Identifying, then validating new biological targets, selecting molecules likely to act on such targets, with preventive or therapeutic action, assessing their effectiveness, action mechanisms and their toxicity, their impact on the population(epidemiology and clinical research)

Controlling their synthesis and integration into a food, ingredient or drug

Developing and improving suitable preventive practices

Members of the cluster

Academia
Regional University Hospital Centre of Lille, University of Lille 1, University of Lille 2, University Of Lille 3, Pasteur Institute of Lille, I.N.S.E.R.M, C.N.R.S, INRA, Oscar Lambret Centre, Medical School…

Companies
Beghin, Meiji / Tereos, Bonduelle, Copalis, Finaler (Leroux), Ingredia, Kalys, Lesaffre, Mc Cain, Roquette, Soufflet Alimentaire, Superdiet, Moypark, Kerry Ingredients, Bifinove, Cellial Technologies, Heart And Arteries Foundation, Genfit, Macopharma, Orgametrie, LFB, Tate & Lyle…

A very active cluster

Since the creation of the Nutrition Health & Longevity Cluster:

Over 60 collaborative projects have been developed

Representing over 160 M€ of R&D investment