News : Research

On November 14, four of the five candidates selected to participate in the First Step Challenge will submit their funding requests (which are required if a start-up turns out to be the chosen track to technology transfer). The four projects—a biomarker-based diagnostic test; a miniaturized, low-power geolocation system; software to ensure interoperability between connected objects; […] >>

This summer was a record one for two Grenoble start-ups. Isorg, which specializes in printed electronics, raised €6.4 million, while Primo1D, which focuses on integrated electronics for textiles and plastics, brought in more than €10 million. For Isorg, founded in 2010, the fresh capital will help the company achieve its target manufacturing launch date of […] >>

Dr. Alim-Louis Benabid, who founded Clinatec (the Edmond J. Safra Biomedical Research Center) along with Jean Therme, has won the 2014 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. Dr. Benabid and Mahlon DeLong, MD, received the award at a ceremony held in New York City on September 19 in recognition of the deep brain stimulation (DBS) technique […] >>

Just seven years after it was founded, Movea was acquired by US-based InvenSense this summer. Movea’s CEO Sam Guilaumé had been gearing up for the deal for a year and a half. He had informed the French company’s shareholders of the planned acquisition, moved to California, and contracted a US investment bank to handle the […] >>

Leti’s helium magnetometers—which are installed on the three Swarm mission satellites—made it through their in-flight commissioning with flying colors. The instruments provide an absolute point of reference for scalar field measurements and delivered the highest levels of performance ever achieved for observing the Earth. A vector mode provides a directional measurement of the field (via […] >>