Our goal is to support big projects over the long-term, and here are some examples:

ARCELOR-SOLLAC partnership

CP2M laboratory (Centre Pluridisciplinaire de Microscopie électronique et de Microanalyse)

Dual-Phase study on the development of new steels for the automobile industry. 5 doctoral theses funded and several patents filed.

ATOFINA partnership

Chemical, Biological and Free Radicals Laboratory

New nanostructured polymeric materials particularly for use in automobile construction. Several patents filed and a pilot industrial development project run by partners in industry.

TOTAL FINA ELF partnership

Complex Chemical Systems (New and fossilised organic materials) Laboratory, in partnership with the Central Laboratory of the Ponts et Chaussées Engineering School

Development of polymer resins to improve the properties of road surfaces leading to several patent applications and thesis funding.

GlaxoSmithKline/ Aventis Pasteur/ PACA Regional Council Partnership

Laboratory of clinical pharmacology

Research into the TAT protein and its antagonists,

Development of an anti HIV vaccine which may lead

to a cure for AIDS.

Funding of several theses.

ESSILOR International partnership

An Organic Chemistry and Molecular Materials Group

Design of photochromatic pigments and the improvement

of their fatigue strength in polymer matrices.

Funding of 6 PhD theses and 3 post-doc posts, ten patents filed.