Key Industrial Partners

• Becton Dickenson - France and USA. BD is a medical technology company that serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public. BD manufactures and sells a broad range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products. BD is headquartered in the United States,
• Pevion Biotech, Switzerland. Pevion Biotech successfully applies its proprietary Virosomes®-based technology platforms to the development of efficient and safe prophylactic/therapeutic vaccines. Additionally, Pevion Biotech gives access to these platforms (PeviPROTM and PeviTERTM) as well as to the Virosomes®-based drug delivery platform (PeviPHARTM) to third parties. Pevion Biotech is located in Bern, Switzerland.
• Protein'eXpert, France. Protein’eXpert is an expanding Contract Research & Manufacturing Organization devoted to recombinant protein engineering & production.The company offers custom designed services focusing on the discovery, optimization and production of valuable target or therapeutic proteins.

Key Technical Industrial Partners

• Bachem AG, Basel, Switzerland: peptide synthesis under GMP conditions (Phase I to III),
• Centre Lago, Vonnas, France: germ-free rabbit immunizations.
• Monogram Biosciences, Inc. (formerly ViroLogic Inc.), San Francisco, USA: PhenoSense neutralizing assay.

Key Governmental Institutions

• Cochin Institute, France. The Cochin Institute was founded to develop cutting edge research to tackle viral diseases. The 600 member site provides an ideal scientific and medical environment represented by the University Hospital Centre (Cochin Institute and Hospital), and more indirectly by the other major centers of research on the Left Bank of the Seine, all close at hand. The Cochin Institute is a mixed research unit, dependent on the public research organizations.
• INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale), the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), and the Paris Descartes Université
• CEA, France. CEA is a French government-funded technological research organization and is a prominent player in the European Research Area. It is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.
• San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy. San Raffaele Institute has relentlessly pursued its three interrelated lines of clinics, research and education since 1971 when it was established. The institute is one of the first examples of a fully independent private hospital in Italy. Shortly after its foundation San Raffaele was granted the status of IRCCS (Research Hospital), which favored its development as a site for clinical research, originally specialized in diabetes and metabolic disorders.
• NIH, USA. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.