CNRS/ UMR 7241 - INSERM U1050

The Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB) is a novel Collège de France / CNRS / INSERM research structure located at the Collège de France in the Center of Paris. Nine teams from different horizons have recently founded this structure with the spirit to foster new collaborations within biological domains and across the usual disciplinary divide. In the long term the nine founding groups, specialized in the fields of infectious diseases, neurosciences and cardio-vascular research, will be rejoined by a similar number of new groups, primarily junior groups, including chemists, physicists and mathematicians with a strong interest for biological sciences. The new Center will benefit from being in the vicinity of several other laboratories and from an extraordinary rich intellectual milieu, with conferences that cover all aspects of knowledge. Outside of Collège de France, CIRB has developed strong interactions with high profile neighboring institutions, in particular the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Curie Institute.

The Nine Founding Teams

Dynamics and Pathophysiology of Neuronal Networks
Group Leaders: Jean-Michel DENIAU, Laurent VENANCE
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Molecular Control of Vascular Development
Group Leader: Anne EICHMANN
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Role of Matrix Proteins in Hypoxia and Angiogenesis
Group Leader: Stéphane GERMAIN
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Junctional Communication and Interactions between Glial and Neuronal Networks
Group Leader: Christian GIAUME
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Cell Biology of Homeoproteins
Group Leader: Alain JOLIOT
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Central Neuropeptides in Cardiovascular and Hydric Regulation
Group Leader: Catherine LLORENS-CORTES
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Early Development and Pathologies
Group Leader: Geneviève NGUYEN
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Homeoprotein Function in Morphogenesis and Physiology
Group Leader: Alain PROCHIANTZ
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Intercellular Communication and Microbial Infections
Group Leader: Guy TRAN VAN NHIEU
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