The French Alliance for Life and Health Sciences

3rd International Biomedical Research Meeting
June 10th 2011
Résidence de Marigny
Pr André Syrota

The French Alliance for Life and
Health Sciences: Aviesan
Created in April 2009
To optimise scientific foresight and put forward scientific
programming to Funding Agencies
To facilitate the development of top-level clusters and
research centers
To promote national projects and to set up national core
facilities
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•Research operating agencies :
•Inserm
•CNRS life sciences department
•CEA (atomic energy commission)
•Inra (national institute for agricultural research)
•Inria (computer science and automatic control)
•IRD (research for development)
•Pasteur Institute
•Universities
•Hospitals

Ten Thematic Institutes
covering the entire field of Life and health Sciences
Neurosciences
Cognitive Sciences
Neurology,
Psychiatry
Genetics,
Genomics
Bioinformatics
Immunology
Hematology
Respiratory
diseases
Microbiology
Infectious
diseases
Public
Health Health Technologies
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Cancer
Cell Biology
Development
Molecular
and
Structural
Biology
Nutrition
Circulation
Metabolism
Keywords: Sharing a common strategy
to ensure an improved coordination

« Epidemiologie France » : a new
internet portal for health research
•A web catalog of major health databases from French sources that may be useful to improve
research and public health expertise
•This catalog contains descriptions of 237 databases including 130 cohort studies, 76 industrial
studies and 31 morbidity registries
•A standardized description form for each database describes the main features: aims, population,
methods, acces modes, responsible of the database
•Search engine and browse tools allows the visitor to explore the on line catalog in three ways:
browse, simple and advanced search
•English version under construction
http://epidemiologie-france.fr

35 billion €
21.9 devoted to
Research and
Higher
education
Investments for the future : a major
opportunity for boosting R&I