The Pacri school of innovation

This project will manage projects for teams of five students. Each student will be selected from different master courses and schools of engineering. The teams will be formed at the beginning of the M2 course and will be trained in three emerging fields: (i) engineering in systems biology, (ii) biological engineering (synthetic biology) and (iii) translational cancer research. For example, these teams may address collective tasks such as:

- Building synthetic agents integrating biosensors to induce apoptosis of heterogeneous tumor cells. This type of project requires knowledge in biological engineering and synthetic biology and would involve physicists in signal processing, biotechnologists and cancer specialists.

- Generating a synthetic agent controlling the deviated bioenergetics of tumor cells. This project would involve students with knowledge in biology, chemistry and physics, as well as strong skills in bioenergy.

- Building an organoid simulating a tumor mass. In this type of project, the team would integrate mechanics to take into account the physical properties of the organoid.


Specific courses will be dedicated to the interface between mathematics and biology. They will involve leading professionals and they will deal with specific aspects of oncological epidemiology, biostatistics, systems biology, data mining and analysis of large data sets obtained by high-throughput and high-content analyses.