Kick-off of the VIRESP industrial chair in infectious diseases (01/24/2024):
Wednesday January 24, 2024, the Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University (UCBL), the Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), the National Research Agency (ANR) and Sanofi officially launched the VIRESP industrial chair, a research project focusing on the development of methodologies, techniques and tools for the analysis of infection risk and disease morbidity rates in different populations, but also to determine the benefits of vaccination programs.
Opening of the Center of Excellence in Respiratory Pathogens (18/04/2023):
Result of the framework agreement signed in July 2021 between Hospices Civils de Lyon and Sanofi, French leader and world health, and in collaboration with Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, the Center of Excellence on respiratory pathogens (CERP, for “Center of Excellence in Respiratory Pathogens”) has probably started its activity at the start of 2023. Unique in France, this center of expertise dedicated to surveillance of respiratory infections has the mission of identifying and studying the evolution of agents infectious in order to deal with future epidemics.