France’s public health research institute Inserm is joining forces with Germany’s Helmholtz Association to create two joint research laboratories in a bid to foster the establishment of a new form of cooperation in life sciences and health between the two countries.
The two labs will be set up for an initial period of five years, with an annual funding of €250,000 coming from the two institutions. They will be located in France, working in close relationship with two Inserm research centres and will closely interact with an associated Research Centre of the Helmholtz Association.
The first will be headed by Julien Marie of the Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie, Université Lyon 1, working in cooperation with the German Cancer Research Centre, DKFZ, in Heidelberg; and the second by Michael Sieweke of the Centre d'immunologie Marseille-Luminy, Université Aix-Marseille 2, working with the Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin.
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