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The 2018-2019 school year was a success for the Nano@school educational outreach program, which brought 800 high-school students, including 80 international students (from Turkey, Luxembourg, and Italy), to CIME Nanotech. The low-tech workshop introduced last year was a big hit. Students use parts from everyday electronics like DVD players, for example, to learn the fundamentals […] >>

Once again this year, a group of students from Grenoble (including four from Phelma) will go to Boston in November to compete in the MIT iGEM international genetically-engineered machine competition. This year’s team is currently putting the finishing touches on NeuroDrop, a system that uses a genetically-modified bacteria to detect a protein called alpha-synuclein, which […] >>

Catherine Picart has been leading a research team at LMGP for eleven years now. She was assigned to the CEA on September 1, 2019 to head the Health Department at IRIG. The department is made up of two joint research units*, one on large-scale biology and one on the biology of cancer and infection, which […] >>

Vivien Gatard graduated from Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school in 2018. He recently won the French Chemistry Society’s “Master’s in Electrochemistry Internship” award for the Master’s thesis he completed during his internship at LEPMI (a lab specializing in the electrochemistry and physiochemistry of materials and interfaces). While Vivien was enrolled in the Physics-Nanosciences […] >>

Of the 31 ERC Advanced grants awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) to researchers in France at the end of March, five were given to researchers in Grenoble, and three went to researchers at IRIG. Martin Blackledge is investigating the structural and dynamic behavior of viral-replication machines. Renaud Demadrille is developing dye-sensitized photovoltaic cells […] >>