Organizers > Aviesan

The purposes of Aviesan, the French National Alliance for Life sciences and health created in 2009, are to:

• coordinate the strategic analysis, scientific programming and operational implementation of life and health science research;

• give a fresh boost to translational research by speeding up the transfer of fundamental knowledge to clinical application;

• increase cross-disciplinarity by opening biology and medicine up to contributions from mathematics, physics, chemistry, information technology, engineering sciences, human and social sciences;

• ensure that projects are consistent in thematic and infrastructure terms;

• carry out clinical, economic and social promotion of knowledge, particularly by facilitating industrial partnerships;

• define shared standpoints in terms of European research and international cooperation;

• harmonize and cut down on red tape for laboratories so as to free up the creativity and excellence of teams.

These objectives will be performed within 9 thematic multi-organization institutes (ITMOs) whose primary role will be to chair the strategic debates within their own scientific community.

ITMO Molecular and structural basis of life sciences