Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

FEDER

LBS

Participant : Marie-Dominique Devignes [contact person] .

The project “LBS” (Le Bois Santé) is a consortium funded by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) and the French “Fonds Unique Interministériel” (FUI). The project is coordinated by Harmonic Pharma SAS. The aim of LBS is to exploit wood products in the pharmaceutical and nutrition domains. Our contribution has been in data management and knowledge discovery for new therapeutic applications.

ANR

Fight-HF

Participants : Marie-Dominique Devignes [contact person] , Bernard Maigret, Sabeur Aridhi, David Ritchie.

This “Investissements d'Avenirs” project aims to discover novel mechanisms for heart failure and to propose decision support for precision medicine. The project has been granted € 9M, and involves many participants from Nancy University Hospital's Federation “CARTAGE” (http://www.fhu-cartage.com/). In collaboration with the Orpailleur Team, Marie-Dominique Devignes is coordinating a work-package on network-based science and drug discovery for this project.

IFB

Participants : Marie-Dominique Devignes [contact person] , Sabeur Aridhi, Isaure Chauvot de Beauchêne, David Ritchie.

The Capsid team is a research node of the IFB (Institut Français de Bioinformatique), the French national network of bioinformatics platforms (http://www.france-bioinformatique.fr). The principal aim is to make bioinformatics skills and resources more accessible to French biology laboratories.

PEPSI

Participants : David Ritchie [contact person] , Marie-Dominique Devignes.

The PEPSI (“Polynomial Expansions of Protein Structures and Interactions”) project is a collaboration with Sergei Grudinin at Inria Grenoble – Rône Alpes (project Nano-D) and Valentin Gordeliy at the Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS) in Grenoble. This project funded by the ANR “Modèles Numériques” program involves developing computational protein modeling and docking techniques and using them to help solve the structures of large molecular systems experimentally.