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The IRT Nanoelec research institute was founded on April 11, 2012 through a joint venture between the French National Research Agency (ANR) and the French Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission (CEA), and comprises 17 public- and private-sector research partners—including Leti and Grenoble Institute of Technology. The institute is slated to receive €73 million of French […] >>

The 2012 MIGAS® international summer school on advanced microelectronics will bring together 50 research and teaching faculty, PhD students, and industry professionals in Autrans, France, from June 23 to 29, 2012. This year the focus will be on micro and nanotechnology for biology and medicine, with a series of lectures, panel discussions, and poster sessions […] >>

Following the appointment or election of three of Phelma’s senior managers to the Grenoble Institute of Technology management team—Anne Vilcot as Vice President of Human Resources, Lorena Anghel as Head of the Doctoral School, and Didier Bouvard as Vice President of the Scientific Board—Phelma is pleased to announce four new appointments. Stéphane Pignard has been […] >>

The cross-university team that will represent Grenoble in the 2012 iGEM synthetic biology competition is gearing up to make its final selection between two possible projects: adding an innovative genetic network to a shared bacteria so that the bacteria can visibly detect a pathogen and secret a molecule to destroy it; or, enhancing a genetic […] >>

A second-year PhD student from IMEP-LAHC is currently performing a six-month research assignment under Dr. Zhong Lin Wang at Georgia Tech in the United States. Dr. Wang is a pioneer in the application of nanowires’ piezoelectric proprieties, and is working to use nanowires developed in Grenoble in systems for harvesting mechanical energy. The project with […] >>