Three leading institutions have joined forces in a bid for funding to become one of five new University Hospital Institutes being set up through France’s stimulus scheme.

Tailoring the treatment to patients is a grand idea. But there are many obstacles. Science|Business organised a roundtable to debate what could be done.

Sanofi-aventis has signed a research partnership with AVIESAN, the French Life Sciences and Healthcare Alliance.

Two papers have generated the first evidence of the value of using electronic patient records as the basis of research.