It all started a year ago when Sanofi-aventis sponsored a French BioBeach event presenting Lyon Biopole to the San Diego biotech community. Stephane Richard had then

Sanofi-aventis announced the signature of a memorandum of understanding laying the foundation for a strategic alliance with the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

The CNRS, Inserm, the CEA, Inra, Inria, the IRD, the Institut Pasteur and the Conférence des Présidents d’Université (CPU), have taken a major step forward in the coordination of life and health sciences by creating the National Alliance for Life and Health Sciences (Alliance nationale pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé).