Bernhard Witulski, an eminent German researcher, has been selected by the French State to conduct, on French soil, a project on the development of new hypervalent iodine derived reagents.And he has chosen the Laboratory for Molecular and Thio-organic Chemistry (LCMT – CNRS, ENSICAEN, UCBN laboratory) in Caen to carry out his research.
Within the framework of a programme supported by the ANR, Normandy’s IAEs’ shared laboratory is currently endeavouring to establish a link between advertising, eating habits and childhood obesity.
Fascinated by the human brain, her research has advanced our knowledge on cerebrovascular accidents. A researcher through and through, Myriam Bernaudin nevertheless constantly strives to focus her work on medical needs.
Since the 16th of January, Dr Valentin Valtchev, Dr Svetlana Mintova and eight other researchers from Mulhouse have joined the Catalysis and Spectrochemistry Laboratory (LCS – CNRS – ENSICAEN – UCBN Laboratory) in Caen. Thanks to this new research and development expertise in the field of porous nanomaterials, the LCS now boasts the finest skills in materials and catalysis.
Within the CHU in Caen, the University’s “Mobility: cognition and temporality” laboratory, recently certified by the INSERM, is currently measuring the impact of medicinal drug consumption, particularly sleeping pills, on road safety. This work is part of the European DRUID programme, aimed at establishing the influence of psychotropic drugs on driving.
With 12,000 molecular samples, useful to biologists and pharmacologists, Caen University’s combinatorial library has, in the space of 10 years, become one of France’s most dynamic. At a now mature age, the library has recently moved to new premises and has concluded a partnership with the Institut Pasteur, which is sure to accelerate its future development.
Via its FPRTD (Framework Programme for Research and Development), the European Union stimulates the employment of young researchers by facilitating their mobility throughout its territory. The CIMAP and the CRISMAT, both CNRS-ENSICAEN-UCBN laboratories, are actively involved in such programmes via their RAINBOW and SOPRANO projects, developed and negotiated by researchers in close partnership with the CNRS’ Normandy delegation.
A Regional Consultative Committee on Research and Innovation (CCRRT) for Lower Normandy was set up on the 15th of January within the premises of the Regional Council.