Press Releases

Gene.iO 2023 – 8 award-winning innovative biotechs

October 16, 2023 – 8 innovative biotech companies have just been selected in the 3rd promotion of Genopole's Gene.iO program: they win a year's coaching at the cutting edge of biotech expertise, to help them successfully raise their first funds or sign their first commercial agreement.

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Gold medal for the Genopole Évry Paris-Saclay team at iGEM 2024

the Évry Paris-Saclay team won gold with PHAGEVO, a project focused on the directed evolution of proteins to better detect compounds resulting from plastics degradation.

05 November 2024

Enalees launches the Astéria kit for coronavirus diagnosis in cats

17 October 2024 – Enalees, a leader in veterinary molecular diagnostics, announced today the launch of their new Astéria Feline Coronavirus kit for the rapid and accurate diagnosis of coronaviruses in cats.

17 October 2024

Genopole reveals the laureates of the 2024 Shaker and Gene.iO programs

During a recent Welcome Session event held to present newcomers to the biocluster, Genopole announced the ten candidates retained for the 15th edition of its Shaker accompaniment program and the 4th edition of its Gene.iO acceleration program, designed to enable success for an initial fund-raising campaign or commercial agreement.

09 October 2024

Four Genopole-accompanied start-ups, laureates of the i-Lab innovation competition

Four companies affiliated with Genopole, bYoRNA, CGenetix, endogene.bio (health) and Fungu'it (foodtech), are bringing home i-Lab prizes attesting to the pertinence and solidity of their innovations. The i-Lab competition recognizes the most-promising deep-tech start-ups and contributes to their growth by providing up to €600,000 in financial assistance.

04 October 2024

Genopole launches APROVALS, a European project for cellular agriculture

Launched in September 2024 for a period of 2.5 years and coordinated by Genopole, the APROVALS project aims to facilitate the deployment and integration of emerging technologies in the field of cellular agriculture by implementing a testing environment that serves innovators throughout the development process of their products

25 September 2024

Genopole and the COBIOE project consortium open an interconnection platform for the European biomanufacturing sector

The COBIOE project aims to build a shared and inclusive strategy for strengthening and interconnecting Europe's healthcare biomanufacturing sector. A part of the Horizon Europe program's European Innovation Ecosystems theme and coordinated by Genopole, the 24-month project is initiating the first step of its Europe-wide interconnection platform for biomanufacturing professionals.

20 February 2024

Genopole is organizing the third edition of the D4Gen Hackathon

On 22–24 March 2024, Genopole will hold its third annual D4Gen Hackathon for innovation in life sciences. Students, researchers and start-uppers will build teams and imagine novel digital solutions to better understand the mechanisms of life and complex systems, to model them and find inspiration therein.

13 February 2024

Genopole announces 5 i-Lab startup winners

July 6, 2023 – Five biotech companies from Genopole, a biocluster dedicated to innovation for health and sustainable development, have won the i-Lab national competition run by Bpifrance and the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, to support the most promising deep-tech companies in France.

06 July 2023

Genother, excellence in gene therapies, named as France 2030 biocluster

The founders of the GenoTher project: Genethon, Genopole, AP-HP, Inserm, the University of Évry-Paris Saclay, Spark Therapeutics and Yposkesi, were delighted to learn of the project's accreditation on 16 May 2023 by the French National Research Agency for the Biocluster Call for Expression of Interest, a part of the France 2030 Plan.

19 May 2023

Genopole inaugurates a new incubator to accelerate innovation in cosmetics biotech

17 April 2023 – On Tuesday, 28 March 2023, Genopole and L'Oréal Recherche & Innovation inaugurated a new biotech innovation acceleration program for green sciences

17 April 2023

Biopharmaceuticals Major Challenge: The University of Évry and Genopole present in three of the eight laureate projects

ART-TG, CiTHERA, I-Stem and Yposkesi are contributing their expertise to three projects named on 3 February 2022 as laureates for the French Government's Major Challenges program.

02 March 2022

IGEM 2021: Yet another Gold Medal!

19 novembre 2021 – Pour la 5ème année consécutive, l’équipe d’Évry décroche une médaille d’or au célèbre concours international en biologie de synthèse iGEM, grâce à son projet « Evolution T7 » reposant sur l’évolution génétique dirigée et ouvrant un vaste champ d’applications.

19 November 2021

Algentech: High-Yield Molecular Farming Of Industrial Ingredients In Plant Chloroplasts

22 juin 2021 – Algentech, a Genopole-accredited French company, has achieved a world's first with its disruptive technology . The company's patented method enables the production of proteins and nucleic acids in plant chloroplasts.

22 June 2021

Genopole earns EU|BIC certification

5 décembre 2020 The European Commission's European Business Network (EBN) voted unanimously to certify Genopole as a European Union | Business and Innovation Center (EU|BIC), thus recognizing France's leading biocluster as a key contributor to R&D and Innovation in Genomics in France and Europe.

5 December 2020