ICR grants from NeuroMarseille (Aix-Marseille University)

Harold Cremer and Julia Schaeffer won ICR grants from NeuroMarseille (Aix-Marseille University). The ICR project grants aim to promote and support innovative, collaborative initiatives within the NeuroMarseille community. Harold Cremer will work with Aurélie Tchoghandjian’s (INP) to decode macrophage identity during cancer development to overcome immunosuppression in glioblastoma. Julia Schaeffer will work with Christophe Leterrier (INP) to visualize ribosomes in growing and regrowing axons.

MITI (CNRS Mission pour les initiatives transverses et interdisciplinaires)

Andrea Pasini won a grant from the MITI (CNRS Mission pour les initiatives transverses et interdisciplinaires) together with Jean-Michel Arbona (IBDM) and Philippe Roudot (Institut Fresnel). This grant is received after the call « Formes optimales : entre géométrie, nature, art et conception ». They will work on the cellular bases of plasticity of body shapes in Trichoplax.

PEPR MEdooc

The HITOC project, in which Virgile Viasnoff is involved, has been selected under the PEPR MEdooc call for proposals. It brings together teams from IBDM, Institut Pasteur Lille, Institut Pasteur Paris, the University of Rennes, and IEMN Lille to develop a new generation of intestine-on-chip systems derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs).The goal is to recreate the rostro-caudal segmentation of the digestive tract, from the duodenum to the colon, and its functional integration with the enteric nervous system. The approach, inspired by developmental biology, relies on spatially controlled morphogen gradients and micro-engineering confinement strategies to guide segment-specific differentiation directly on chip. The platform will also integrate microelectrodes to monitor and stimulate neuronal activity.