Department of Biology
Life sciences are at the heart of sweeping changes related to ever-increasing knowledge and how it interfaces with key societal issues: healthcare, ethics, bioengineering. Research in the field of biology seeks to better understand biological processes, incorporating concepts and technologies from fields such as chemistry, physics and computer sciences. These interactions with other disciplines are often a driving force for developments that directly benefit society.
Fundamental and applied research in biology at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris aims to:
- Improve our understanding of biological processes
- Develop personalized medicine
- Develop more effective diagnoses and treatments
World-class research areas
- Structural biology
- Cristallography
- Cryo-EM
- Structural modeling
- Biochemistry
- Assembly of multi-protein complexes
- Assembly of RNA-protein complexes
- Initiation of translation
- Microbial adaptation
- Optics and spectroscopy
- Nonlinear optics
- Tissue microscopy
- Nanoparticle imaging
- Protein relaxation
- Cellular biology
- Cytoskeleton
- Cell migration
- Cell transformation
- Developmental biology
- Cell migration
- Zebrafish embryo
Laboratories
Members of the Education and Research Departement
The research strategy in this field is implemented by researchers from Institut Polytechnique de Paris schools. They work together to conduct world-class research at state-of-the-art facilities.
Head of the department
