News : innovation

In September, three students from Grenoble INP – Phelma, UGA and a musicology student from UGA started a club, called Radio Plaisir, to help fill the void left by students’ social lives, interrupted by the pandemic. Every Wednesday evening, they go live on streaming platform Twitch.tv. The recordings are then dispatched to social media. The […] >>

Exposing degenerating neurons to near infrared light could slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease. A preclinical trial of this approach in 2016 produced excellent results. The first patient in a new clinical trial was implanted with the neuron-illuminating device at Clinatec at the end of March. Parkinson’s disease affects 6.5 million people worldwide. Although treatments—like […] >>

Leti’s FD-SOI transistor model, used by companies like Samsung and STMicroelectronics, was recently recognized by the Si2 Compact Model Coalition, a working group made up of 30 international semiconductor industry stakeholders. The fact that Leti’s L-UTSOI model is now recognized as a standard model guarantees that it will be maintained and updated to meet the […] >>

Grenoble startup eLichens finished rolling out 30 air quality monitoring stations in San Francisco in March. The stations’ sensors monitor fine particles, carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and methane in real time. And, because they are installed 2 meters to 3 meters off the ground, the stations monitor the air that people are actually breathing. […] >>

The Grenoble-Alpes medtech industry will soon have a 150 sq. m promotional and event space all its own at Biopolis, near Grenoble University Medical Center. The new space, called Medytec, will be home to a showroom and conference and meeting facilities. Around 30 events are scheduled to take place at Medytec between now and September. […] >>