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Physics to transcribe athletes' sensations. This is the credo of Phyling, the company founded in 2018 by École polytechnique alumni Romain Labbé and Jean-Philippe Boucher. On their former campus, in the Drahi X-Novation Center, the two comparses and their eight employees are now developing customized power sensors (speed and force) for top-level sport. The aim is to improve athletes' performance...and a little more.

If social and environmental impact is becoming key for all companies, how can we analyse the specific case of young innovative startups, for whom impact is still only an ambition? A study conducted by researchers in Management Sciences at the École Polytechnique and the Technology for Change Research Chair at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris has explored how the integration of social and environmental issues shapes the entrepreneurial project and strengthens so-called 'impact-native' startups. This work is published in the Journal of Management & Organization [1].

Against a backdrop of ever-pressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and declining profitability, the development of new drugs targeting pathogenic bacteria and viruses has shifted from the pharmaceutical industry to startups and academic research. Leading the interdisciplinary Antires project, Julian Garrec, a researcher at the Chemistry and Processes Unit (UCP*) of ENSTA, is coordinating the creation of an algorithm capable of predicting the mutations of a pathogen subjected to the pressure of a drug molecule.

Discover for half a day our Master's program in BioMedical Engineering (BME) and the campus of Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

The Next 40 2024 index unveiled on May 22, at the opening of the VivaTech trade show, bears witness to the dynamism of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris ecosystem. Fourteen of the startups listed were incubated in one of the three IP Paris incubators or founded by alumni, and ten of the 33 unicorns in France are IP Paris companies.

If you want to fight your enemy effectively, you have to know him well. Hannu Myllykallio, research director at Optics and Biosciences Laboratory of the École Polytechnique, and post-doc Rima Zein-Eddine, are studying the molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, particularly in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The enzymes they have isolated are involved in the replication and repair of microbial DNA. They open up encouraging prospects in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.

While the poorly controlled use of antibiotics contributes to antibiotic resistance, infection prevention and diagnostic aids are levers for taking action against this phenomenon. At the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics (PMC*) of the École Polytechnique, Anne Chantal Gouget specializes in modifying the surface properties of materials. Her work is applied to the development of innovative techniques for pathogen detection and identification, as well as antimicrobial surfaces to combat nosocomial diseases.

Antibiotic resistance is a major public health problem today. At the crossroads of human, animal and ecosystem health, it needs to be tackled in a global way (One Health), and calls for a different approach to research, also involving civil society players. This is what the Institut Polytechnique de Paris is proposing with its antimicrobial resistance (AMR) project.

The consortium led by IP Paris and HEC Paris, and including Inria, CNRS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and Université de Technologie de Troyes, won the AI Cluster call for projects. Based on the Hi! PARIS Interdisciplinary Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis, the project has been awarded €70 million to create a world-class AI research, training and innovation cluster serving society in France.

The EuroTech University Alliance, of which IP Paris is one of six members, is organizing two conferences on Tuesday June 4, in Brussels and online, on two very different yet intertwined topics : developing excellent research in Africa and resilient water systems in the context of climate change.

For the second edition of INNOV'NIGHT, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) brought together over a hundred students from its member schools as well as partner schools. The challenge that awaited them throughout the night was to immerse themselves in the world of entrepreneurship and develop innovative solutions in teams.

IP Paris ranks 6th in the 2024 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings, which list the world's top institutions with 50 years of existence or less. It climbs two spots from 2023.