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EUROBIOMED
The cluster's aim is to create synergies between the health sector's
economic and scientific actors on the Mediterranean seaboard through joint
research projects, to encourage value-building (patents, royalties, sales, jobs, etc.),
enhance the sector's visibility and outreach, and boost the economic appeal of
the LR and PACA regions. It has two main orientations: emerging pathologies and
orphan diseases, developed along 4 lines:
- infectious and tropical diseases,
- cancer diagnostics and immunotherapy,
focusing on rare or aggressive cancers,
new tools for peronalised medecine
,
- treatment and care for the aged,
neurological and disabling pathologies
,
- medical devices and bio-engineering.
141 members - 3 joined from the Var in 2010.
Eurobiomed is the competitiveness cluster that draws together all the health sector operators in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Languedoc-Roussillon regions.
Our missions:
- Develop and organise the network of health sector operators and in particular the SMEs, to streamline medication, diagnostics tools, new medical devices and services developments,
- Support the growth of the region’s companies by setting up services, tools and access to funding,
- Promote the network and the quality of public- and privately-funded research carried out in the South of France,
- Encourage and support the implementation of collaborative R&D projects and help them secure funding.
5 priority project areas:
- infectious, tropical and emerging pathologies,
- rare and orphan diseases,
- medical devices, primarily: biomarkers, diagnostics,
- immunology and its therapeutic applications.
- neurological diseases, ageing and disability.
www.eurobiomed.org