BIOMIM : Collaboration

Researchers from the IMBM group : Franz Bruckert, Marianne Weidenhaupt, Didier Delabouglise and Valérie Stambouli-Sené.

 

Dr Corinne Albiges-Rizo, Institut Albert Bonniot, INSERM-UJF-CNRS Grenoble, FR (WP2)

CNRS Research director. Head of the Dynamics of cell adherence group.

http://www-iab.ujf-grenoble.fr/

 

Professor Rachel Auzely-Velty, Centre de Recherche sur les Macromolécules Végétales, Grenoble (WP3)

Associate Professor; Group leader :Structure and Function of Polysaccharides. Design of functional materials based on chemical modification of polysaccharides.

http://www.cermav.cnrs.fr/structure.htm

 

Dr Laurent Blanchoin, Institut de Sciences pour le Vivant (iRSTV), CEA Grenoble (WP4)

CNRS Research director, leader of the « Cytoskeleton dynamics. Molecular Mechanisms controlling actin dynamics group.

http://www-dsv.cea.fr/dsv/instituts/institut-de-recherches-en-technologies-et-sciences-pour-le-vivant-irtsv/unites/physiologie-cellulaire-vegetale-pcv/equipe-05

 

Dr David Peyrade, Laboratoire des Technologies de la Microelectronique (LTM), Grenoble (WP3)

CNRS Researcher, leader of the « Biological and colloidal nanodevices team.

http://www.ltm-cnrs.fr/

 

Dr Cécile Gauthier-Rouvière, Centre de Recherche de Biochimie Macromoléculaire (CRBM), Montpellier, FR (WP2)

INSERM research director. Head of the « GTPases Rho GTPases, cellular adhesion and musculo-skeletal physiopathology » group.

http://www.crbm.cnrs.fr/spip.php?rubrique94

 

Dr Karine Glinel, Institut de la Matière Condensée et des Nanosciences
Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve (WP3)
Bio and Soft Matter
http://www.uclouvain.be/en-bsma.html


Professor Ali Khademhosseini, MIT Boston, USA (WP3)

Associate Professor Harvard-MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Develops microscale biomaterials and engineering systems for tissue engineering.
http://www.tissueeng.net/lab/  

Prof Dennis Discher, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (WP3)Full professor, Departement of Bioengineering. Molecular and cellular biophysics; polymer engineering
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~discher/index.html 

Professor Helmuth Möhwald, Max Planck Institute Postdam-Golm, Germany (WP1)

Professor, head of the Interfaces department at the Max Planck Institute of Colloid and Interfaces in Golm (Postdam, Germany).

http://www.mpikg.mpg.de/159235/Interfaces

Professor Glenn Prestwich, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA (WP4)

Presidential professor of Medicinal Chemistry. Prestwich lab focus on three main research areas: (i) new reagents for phosphoinositide and lysophospholipid signaling in cell biology and cancer treatment, (ii) biomaterials for cell therapy, wound repair, cartilage repair, tissue engineering, scar-free healing, toxicology and xenograft models, and (iii) sulfated glycosaminoglycan analogues as inflammation modulators for clinical use.

http://www.pharmacy.utah.edu/medchem/prestwich/index.html

 

Professor Cay Kielty, Wellcome Trust Center (WTC) for Cell-Matrix Research, Manchester, UK (WP2)

Chair in Medical Biochemistry within the WTC for Cell-Matrix Research working on extra-cellular matrix assembly.  

http://www.wellcome-matrix.org/research-groups/cay-kielty.html