Newsletter #25
June 23rd, 2025

Dear all,

Summer is coming and we are already getting ready for the next academic year! Don't miss the chance to present at our annual symposium in November - last day to submit an abstract!!! - , and don't miss our most recent initiatives:

👉 apply for a training funding
👉 join our innovation events
👉 lookback on our past initiatives

Please share these initiatives with the young researchers of your entourage, and have a lovely start of summer!

Apply for a training funding
One of the objectives of BioConvS is to support technical training around its thematics (bioproduction, biotherapy, synthetic biology). Since the members of BioConvS vary greatly in their needs in terms of training, we decided to allocate funding on demand, as no one knows our community’s needs better than our community itself.

TOMORROW! Last change to register:

Awareness Session on Intellectual Property and Value Proposition
Join us for an in-person session (in English) on Tuesday afternoon, June 24 in Paris. A guest expert in intellectual property from a leading biotechnology company will share insights on protecting innovation and defining your value proposition. For more information, contact us!

BioConvS calls

Our events

Our Innovation Day 2025 will be held again at the Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France on November 26th!

Abstract submissions deadline TONIGHT!

Lookback

Festival Double Science

Over the weekend of June 15–16, DIM BioConvS proudly took part in the Double Science Festival, a joyful and popular event held at Ground Control in Paris’ 12th arrondissement. The festival, co-sponsored by several DIMs from the Île-de-France Region, aimed to bring science closer to the general public in a welcoming, family-friendly setting.

Discover the project who participated and the gallery of the event:

VivaTechnology 2025

DIM BioConvS was delighted to attend VivaTech on June 11, 2025, and to showcase one innovative start-up and two researchers from its community:
👉ZebraMed
👉Amir Pandi

👉Julien Mozziconacci

Opportunities

Apply to Shaker #17 by July 18th

The Genopole Shaker program supports aspiring deeptech entrepreneurs in the life sciences with six months of coaching, lab access, and expert mentoring to validate innovative biotech, medtech, or agtech projects. The next call for applications for the Shaker program will run from May 26 to July 18, 2025.

Apply to Gene.io before July 21st

Are you a biotechnology companiy (post-POC) seeking investors or business partners in biotherapy and bioeconomy? Thene sign up to Gene.io, a Genopole programme that speeds up the process of obtaining initial financing or signing a first commercial agreement.

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!

Recent publications

Do you want to see your paper featured in our next newlsetter? Write to chiara.fracassi@u-paris.fr

Ahavi, P., Hoang, A., Meyer, P., Berthier, S., Fiorini, F., Castelli, F., Epaulard, O., Gouellec, A.L., Faulon, J.-L., 2025. Cellular computing without bioengineering. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.12.612674 

De Angelis, B., D’Amore, M.L., Lecot, P., Neininger, K., Lorrain, M., Gambotti, L., Dreuillet, C., Courcault, E., Chatterjee, S., Delgado, J., Galy, A., Franz, P., Rodriguez-Madoz, J.R., Cabrerizo, Y., Richter, A., Girvalaki, C., Noviello, M., Tassi, E., Sanges, C., Luu, M., Hudecek, M., Kremer, A., Locatelli, F., Negre, H., Quintarelli, C., 2025. European survey on CAR T-Cell analytical methods from apheresis to post-infusion immunomonitoring. Front. Immunol. 16, 1567582. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2025.1567582 

Kim, W., Han, J., Chauhan, S., Lee, J.W., 2025. Cell-free protein synthesis and vesicle systems for programmable therapeutic manufacturing and delivery. Journal of Biological Engineering 19, 55. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13036-025-00523-x 

Marton, C., Clémenceau, B., Dachy, G., Demerle, C., Derenne, S., Ferrand, C., Giverne, C., Latouche, J.-B., Lemée, L., Martinet, J., Bonig, H., Bensoussan, D., Chabannon, C., Köhl, U., Deschamps, M., De Vos, J., Diana, J.-S., Dougé, A., Forcade, E., Galaine, J., Thiant, S., Galy, A., Larghero, J., Reppel, L., Viel, S., Boyer, O., Yakoub-Agha, I., 2025. Harmonisation of quality control tests for academic production of CAR-T cells: a position paper from the WP-bioproduction of the UNITC consortium. Bone Marrow Transplant 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-025-02637-8 

Quero, F.J., Aidelberg, G., Vielfaure, H., Kermadec, Y.H. de, Cazaux, S., Pandi, A., Pascual-Garrigos, A., Arce, A., Sakyi, S., Gaudenz, U., Federici, F., Molloy, J.C., Lindner, A.B., 2025. qByte: An open-source isothermal fluorimeter for democratizing analysis of nucleic acids, proteins and cells. PLOS Biology 23, e3003199. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003199

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