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Newsletter #35
August 25th, 2026
Dear all,

We hope you had a great summer! As we are preparing for the last year of BioConvS, we would like to share with you a light digest of summer news before we plunge in with all the juicy september news. From all of us at BioConvS, have a great "rentrée"!
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BioConvS news
Discover the 2026 PhD laureates
Our last PhD call closed in May and 5 candidates were announced. Discover their names and abstract on the BioConvS website, and stay tuned for the result of the equipment call in September!
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Event - iPSCs: Recent Clinical Insights & Progress

BioConvS is a proud co-sponsor of this international symposium, which brings together scientists, clinicians, biotechnology companies, manufacturers and regulatory experts to explore the development of iPSC-derived cell therapies—from discovery and translational research to clinical applications, manufacturing, scale-up and regulatory strategy. Its patient-centred “bedside back to bench” approach will examine how each development stage can be aligned to deliver safe, effective and scalable therapies.

Discover the program at the link below!
📅 November 12-13, 2026
📌16, rue Jean Rey - 75015 Paris

Abstract submission deadline and early bird registration: September 13th

Register to attend
Région Île-de-France announces a new DIM call

At the event celebrating 20 years of the DIM programme, at the end of June, Région Île-de-France's President Valérie Pécresse confirmed a fifth wave of DIM accreditations.

The competitive call will be open to all research fields, with no predefined theme. A new strand will support high-risk, disruptive and emerging research projects led by small consortia of two or three researchers or teams. BioConvS will apply for renewal! Stay tuned if you want to be part of the big next adventure!

Provisional timeline (to be confirmed):
Call opening: November 2026
Application deadline: May 2027
The BioConvS team evolves!

We are delighted to announce that our innovation manager Carole Oudot gave birth to a beautiful baby girl! I hope you'll all join us to wish her all the joy in the world for this fantastic new adventure. 
BioConvS is on HAL
By collecting the articles recensed through our latest laureates report, we have put together a collection of BioConvS laureates articles on HAL. Do you want to add your lab to the list? Contact us!
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Might interest you
BIO-RED Hackathon: Scaling Bioproduction

The European BIO-RED project is organising an international hackathon on the challenges of scaling bioproduction from the laboratory to industrial production.
Entrepreneurs, start-ups and students will work in multidisciplinary, international teams, supported by European experts. Participants will develop innovative solutions and present them to a jury including representatives from Servier, Sartorius and other industry leaders.
Winning teams will receive an incubation and mentoring programme worth €9,000, Medicen membership and support for 2026–2027, and the opportunity to join the BIO-RED accelerator and pursue European funding.
Travel and accommodation costs may be covered for selected participants.
📅 10–11 September 2026
📍 PariSanté Campus, Paris
📝 Application deadline: 2 September 2026
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Job opportunities
Full Professorship in Bioengineering for Health at CentrealeSupélec - Learn more

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Census of BioConvS labs
Starting January 2024, all labs affiliated or wanting to participate in a DIM BioConvS activity will have to be registered. Why? Most importantly because we want to build a cartography of biotherapy, bioproduction and synthetic biology in Ile-de-France and you want to make sure that you're on it!
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Recent publications
Do you want to see your paper featured in our next newlsetter? Write to chiara.fracassi@u-paris.fr

Bi, Y., Song, W., Glymenaki, M., Hu, J., Li, X., Huang, H., Peng, Y., Ni, S., Haonon, O., Liu, Zhu, Daowtak, K., Shen, X., Peng, H., Phetcharaburanin, J., Tang, H., Wang, Y., Li, J.V., Jiang, M., Powell, N., Zhong, V.W., Holmes, E., Xianyu, Y., Liu, Zhigang, n.d. The gut microbiome organ. iMeta n/a, e70144. https://doi.org/10.1002/imt2.70144

Khalilitousi, M., Dhingra, A., Rohani, L., Weiss, R., 2026. Current Progress and Future Outlook for Synthetic Gene Circuits in Cardiovascular Therapy. Biomolecules 16, 754. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom16050754

Roas, K., Kovalski, I., Mouhadeb, O., Aminov, T., Weinstein-Marom, H., Nissim, L., 2026. Modular Scalable Synthetic Gene Circuits for Complex Functions Within Minimal Computational Layers in Human Cells. Nat Commun. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74408-y

Unal, G., Mansouri, M., Xie, Y.-Q., Mueller, C., Charpin-El Hamri, G., Fussenegger, M., 2026. A synthetic angiotensin II/ACE2-based hormone shunt controlling experimental hypertension. Nat Commun 17, 5116. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71796-z

van den Brink, M., Claassens, N.J., Danelon, C., 2026. Combinatorial Optimization of Protein Systems in Synthetic Cells. ACS Synth. Biol. 15, 3285–3299. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.6c00166

Yun, S., Choi, K.-S., Min, H., Jo, Y.K., Jang, S., 2026. Development strategies for engineered live biotherapeutic products for metabolic diseases. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology 0, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/07388551.2026.2653692


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