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Dr. Alim-Louis Benabid, who founded Clinatec (the Edmond J. Safra Biomedical Research Center) along with Jean Therme, has won the 2014 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. Dr. Benabid and Mahlon DeLong, MD, received the award at a ceremony held in New York City on September 19 in recognition of the deep brain stimulation (DBS) technique […] >>

Just seven years after it was founded, Movea was acquired by US-based InvenSense this summer. Movea’s CEO Sam Guilaumé had been gearing up for the deal for a year and a half. He had informed the French company’s shareholders of the planned acquisition, moved to California, and contracted a US investment bank to handle the […] >>

Leti’s helium magnetometers—which are installed on the three Swarm mission satellites—made it through their in-flight commissioning with flying colors. The instruments provide an absolute point of reference for scalar field measurements and delivered the highest levels of performance ever achieved for observing the Earth. A vector mode provides a directional measurement of the field (via […] >>

Marie-Noëlle Semeria has been appointed Director of Leti, effective October 1, 2014. She succeeds Laurent Malier. Ms. Semeria holds a Ph.D. in physics and has considerable industry experience, working first for Sagem and then for start-up Pixtech. She came to Leti in 1996, where she has held a number of positions including that of Deputy […] >>

Leti and bioMérieux recently teamed up to conduct quantitative protein measurements using MRM mass spectrometry with automated data processing and sensitivity levels of around 10-8. The research was part of the BHI-PRO* project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). The partners’ Bayesian inversion software performs just as well as—and, in some cases, better […] >>