Press Releases

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