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STIC \| Biology – Health – Food processing \| Chemicals and Materials \| Environment and Energy

"Biological technologies" are being developed in close cooperation with the most diverse sectors of industry: from car manufacture to pharmaceuticals or textiles to food processing.

The increased number of gateways between extremely productive and diversified high tech disciplines is having an impact on the expansion of research activities. Although not specialised in the health sector, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille University of Science and Technology) alone represents more than 20% of regional research in this sector, in terms of resources and number of researchers; this is due in part to its strong involvement in the Lille Génopole..

The areas covered by the laboratories are:

Health: research into new therapeutic targets, new strategies for the treatment, diagnosis and prognosis of cancers and neuroendocrinological pathologies - auto-immune, infectious and parasitic diseases, diabetes, metabolism disorders, high blood pressure, obesity, neuromuscular disorders, mental illnesses, drug addiction, neuro-degenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s), etc. USTL laboratories are also carrying out research on medical devices (e.g. antibacterial medical products used to prevent nosocomial diseases), means of testing drugs and health foods (functional foods, neutraceuticals), synthesis of biologically active compounds (antimicrobials), bone and dental replacement (medical prostheses), biomaterials, therapeutic materials, synthesis of molecules with active properties of pharmacological interest, etc.

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Food Processing: in close cooperation with manufacturers in the sector, upstream research on subjects relating to the preparation of genetic maps of wild plants and genetically-modified plants, research on procedures and methods for controlling GMO crops, and processes for studying the level of hygiene and food quality of products (study of bacterial contamination through food).

Other sectors and emerging sectors: research on plant biomaterials and their applications in textile/clothing and car manufacturing.

In the emerging sector of biotechnological engineering, the laboratories have access to specialised equipment such as sequencers, molecular biology equipment (cloning, genetic transformation, etc.), proteomic analysis equipment, a mass spectrometer, patch-clamp system, etc.