MINATEC in figures

Startup Diabeloop raises €13.5 million in order to develop and commercialize its smart artificial pancreas for insulin-dependent diabetics.     More about Diabeloop's technology : Diabeloop: “Pancreas 2.0” undergoes patient testing (MINA-NEWS June 2016) Diabeloop website More information

June 28 and 29, The Maion MINATEC hosts the "Leti Innovation Days" event. Visitors came from many different countries to discover les "routes de l'innovation", where they can learn everything about Leti's labs' technologies through three spaces dedicated to design, environment and health.   More information

This year Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school and Grenoble-Alpes University (UGA) will once again enter the iGEM synthetic biology competition held by Boston’s MIT. The Grenoble team, which includes four students from Phelma and six from UGA’s School of Pharmacy, will develop a portable, self-contained cholera test kit. A DNA sequence from the bacteria responsible for cholera will be integrated into a DNA sequence from a common E. coli bacteria to detect cholera in a stool sample and… More information

The photonics platform, originally slated for delivery in November 2016—later pushed back to January 2017—, finally opened on May 2, 2017. In all, it took the builder six months to resolve the variety of issues plaguing the project and deliver a building compliant with the original specifications. One of the major problems observed was excessive vibration caused by malfunctioning acid-base extraction equipment. The move, which concerns 260 Leti Optics and Photonics Department employees and 360 pieces of lab equipment, will… More information