says Osama Ammar President and founder of Hypios

Faithful to the spirit of the Nobel Prize in physics disappeared in 2007, the Foundation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes announced today the launch of the FPGG Network, a new virtual community at the service of innovation in health. This interactive platform has a double objective: promote interdisciplinarity between researchers 1,500 grouped within the Foundation and enable them to trade with innovative companies to resolve the complex issues of R & D as a whole.

"As Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, we are convinced that there is no great science without dialogue between industrial and academic worlds", said Gilles Rubinstenn, Director of the Foundation created in September 2007 by five partners: Ecole normale supérieure (ENS), the superior school of physics and chemistry industrial (Espci), the Institut Curie, CNRS and Inserm. "Since January 1, 2009, we tested a new economic model by using the tax credit research as a tool", continues Gilles Rubinstenn, which States have thus initiated and funded for a total amount of EUR 2.6 million, eight research projects in partnership with industrialist. For example, Urgo society has partnered with two teams of the Espci to elucidate the phenomenon of loss of membership on a wet media, such as a dressing on a wound, which plays at the molecular level.

Another project, which involves the start-up neurelec ABI and the Department of cognitive studies of the ENS, seeks to decrypt the fineness of the treatment of the temporal structure of the sound by the human auditory system, to develop AIDS really effective. Public-private partnerships mounted within a relatively short time: "To be on average seven months between the first contact and the start of operations", said Gilles Rubinstenn, recalling that the negotiations between the public and the private sector may sometimes more than two years.

With a true risk taking recognized by the beneficiaries of the aid: "the Foundation funds a research project that represents an opening to fields of activity where my team has already demonstrated particular excellence," said Simon Scheuring, Director of research at Inserm-Institut Curie, which also emphasizes the reactivity. "Calls to projects once per year, you can file a record at any time, knowing that he will be assessed at the next Steering Committee.

Hosted on the extranet of the Foundation, the new interactive platform will serve as a springboard to deploy the concept of transfer of non-standard technology to larger scale. "This tool can change the deal between the public and the private sector, which is not the ability to identify and implement such networks of multidisciplinary skills," said Mickael Tanter, Director of research at the Institute Langevin of the Espci. "Through this platform, the Foundation will bring to an industrial a global interlocutor, that has all the skills needed for its projects in very strong potential, since it is located on the border between all disciplines where are born the majority d es great discoveries."

Because the more complex part to manage is not technical. "Contact with the private sector is always difficult, the impression of living in a parallel world," raises Simon Scheuring. The major difficulty in the establishment of connections between all disciplines and interaction for welding teams a common goal.

For the design of the FPGG Network, the Foundation has appealed to the expertise of the Hypios company, which launched a social network of researchers 120,000 from 152 countries last year to help businesses solve their problems of R & d. "for the network of the Foundation, we have developed custom tools that take into account the need for custom administration of a private community".says Osama Ammar, President and founder of Hypios. To do this, it took imagine profiling tools very advanced to fine mapping skills and scientific publications of each of the researchers.

The first physical meeting of this new science-industrial community will take place during the days challenges & Research organized by the Foundation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, from 19 to 21 July, in Paris.