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Leem Recherche : Public Research - Private Research, partners in the service of therapeutic progress
Leem Recherche is a joint association between the public research organizations involved in human health and the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Its objectives are promoting research and therapeutic progress that are consistent with the objectives of the European research policy. Leem Recherche acts in particular to facilitate the research partnerships between the public and private spheres. Leem Recherche participates in colloquia and organizes seminars to facilitate exchanges and the sharing of information.
To promote research and therapeutic progress that are consistent with the objectives of the European research policy, Leem Recherche holds the objectives of facilitating public/private research partnerships, of putting forward the issues of therapeutic research and of measuring competitiveness, in order to create a more favorable environment in France. The shared propositions and the initiatives taken up jointly make it possible to lend the necessary visibility to the development of this research that is directly related to health and human diseases. Currently, the project based approaches – multidisciplinary, regional, national, pan-European – involve a multiplicity of players and research platforms. The performance of players also depends on their organization and on their coordination. In the current context in which the public authorities are seeking to improve France’s competitiveness through the creation of competitiveness clusters and that of National Research Agency, Leem Recherche becomes a crossroads of necessary exchanges, making the integration of public and private research spheres possible. Therapeutic innovation is a continuous chain that runs from discoveries to the health care system. Leem Recherche unites all the players involved in making therapeutic progress in an association in order to establish this essential link for development that becomes the driver of such progress.
Presided over by Christian Lajoux, this association is endowed with a Board of Directors and a Joint Scientific Board. The Scientific Board, the operational arm of Leem Recherche, is presided over by Antoine Bril; Catherine Lassale, Scientific and Medical Director of Leem, sees to the organization. Leem Recherche brings together the research organizations, the administrations concerned, and the public and private researchers involved in basic research and clinical research, with the 38 pharmaceutical companies that have an R&D organization in France. The association is also the birthing grounds for discussion and studies by experts from the academic and industrial fields.
This sharing of ideas and knowledge is at the basis of the recommendations and propositions promoted by Leem Recherche. In this respect, the association participates in colloquia and organizes seminars to facilitate exchanges and the sharing of information.
Activities
Launch of 1st directory of R&D centers of pharmaceutical companies
In order to facilitate contact and to allow public laboratories to identify the representatives likely to interest them, the pharmaceutical companies created a first directory of all the research and development centers located in France. Regularly updated and easily consulted by company, by discipline or by therapeutic field, the directory can be accessed on the web site of Leem Recherche. Given the success of this initiative, Leem Recherche has released a first version of the directory, a copy of which is attached to this dossier. Others can be provided upon request to Leem Recherche.
Opening of the Leem Recherche Summer School
The objective of the Leem Recherche Summer School, which will open its doors in Summer 2006 at the Vaux de Cernay Abbey, will be the yearly training of a small group of forty public researchers in the R&D of the pharmaceutical industry : identification of targets, translational research, clinical development, intellectual property, regulatory constraints, etc.
The training program also includes courses and case studies, as well as an industrial research site visit.
Organized in collaboration with the Inserm (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research), the school curriculum will be adapted on a yearly basis to meet the expectations of our partners. This school curriculum will be regulary repeated and adapted to meet the expectations of our partners.
Post-doctoral fellowships organized by subject
Each year Leem Recherche awards six post-doctoral fellowships of 24 000 euros, in order to finance a one-year training program. It is possible to renew this fellowship once. The subject selected for 2005 and 2006 is the identification and/or the validation of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. The practical details and the application dossiers are avalaible on the french version of this web site.
