The CEA Fontenay-aux-Roses research centre
Transitioning from nuclear engineering to biological engineering… CEA Fontenay-aux-Roses is progressively dismantling its nuclear facilities and reorienting its research focus towards the biomed sector: radiation biology, emerging diseases, toxicology, imaging, genomics…
Since as early on as 1946, the CEA’s Fontenay-aux-Roses research centre has played a pioneering role in leading nuclear science research for progress in energy and biology. The site’s nuclear facilities were shut down in 1995, and are being handled through a global clean-up and nuclear decommissioning programme.
Certain technologically important research activities continue to be hosted at the centre (including robotics, virtual reality, and software technologies), but the brunt of the site’s research activity is in the life sciences. CEA Fontenay-aux-Roses networks other research institutions plus university groups and regional hospitals to lead research efforts in the fields involving major strategic socio-economic and public heath challenges: radiation biology, emerging diseases, neurovirology, environmental toxicology, functional imaging, blood immunology, genomics, and more…
The Fontenay-aux-Roses centre has been a functional branch of the CEA Life Sciences Division (‘DSV’) since 2005. Its core mission is to become a research and innovation cluster with international-scale reach in imaging and biomed technologies.
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