Institute Carnot LISA

The Institute Carnot LISA is a novel alliance of public and private skills and knowledge, from academia and from industry.

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The Institute Carnot LISA (Lipids for Industry, SAfety and health) is a novel alliance of public and private skills and knowledge, from academia and from industry. The Institute Carnot LISA comprises of a French consortium consisting of ITERG (French Institute for Fats and Oils), IMBL (Institute for Multidisciplinary Biochemistry of Lipids) and PRES “University of Bordeaux”.

The Institute Carnot LISA has been specifically designed and created to bring together like-minded scientists with the aim of adding value in research in the field of lipids, in line with the objectives of the French public authorities involved in creating the Carnot label.

The Institute Carnot LISA has a wide interdisciplinary scientific range addressing chemistry, biochemistry, physics and biology.

Assets of the Institute Carnot LISA

A permanent structure consisting of 130 researchers and 50 PhD students.
Sets of themes that are complementary to research in the field of lipids.
A transverse range of competences.
International recognition.
A guarantee of professionalism.

The three themes (see below) that the Institute Carnot LISA specialises in examine scientific and technological challenges, in line with important political and social issues.

Nutrition - health and food safety

To contribute to the wellbeing of the population, from birth to old age.
To ensure the Benefit-Risk balance of food lipids by the controlling industrial production and promoting healthy, risk-free eating.
To encourage sustainable fat systems at the economic, environmental and social level, by producing foodstuffs that respect the environment.

Health and biomolecules

To understand the metabolism of lipids and their biological functionality, understanding better prevention and cure of ill health.
To develop sensitive, simple and specific analytical tools adapted to biological environments (optimising costs).
To develop non-invasive medical diagnosis methods using lipid probes and lipids labelled with stable isotopes (diagnosing without risks).

Green chemistry and bioenergies

To develop new biofuels (moving towards renewable sources).
To continue innovative research in order to develop new bioproducts (more environmentally-friendly solvents, lubricants, detergents, paints, etc.).
To carry out a complete technological transfer at industry level in order to develop new bioproducts, going from laboratory to pilot and production at lower cost.

Concerning this last sector, action is already underway with the creation of a CEDOP platform: a European Research and Development Centre for the industrial-scale production of bioproducts and green chemistry processes.

The depletion of fossil resources has created huge changes within the chemical industry. To manufacture not only fuels, but common consumer products such as paints, detergents, lubricants, inks, and the intermediaries for medicine synthesis, renewable carbon substrate sources must gradually replace oil, gas, or coal.

In this context, raw materials resulting from agricultural production are therefore precious resources.

The CEDOP platform will transfer adapted technologies from laboratory-scale to pilot-scale production, and then to industrial pre-productions for wide-scale and/or test market formulation testing, in addition to developing new processes and bioproducts.

The examples and uses of bioproducts are numerous: biosolvants, biosurfactants, biolubricants, biopolymers and cosmetics.

Institute Carnot LISA enables all the necessary steps to be made, in order to obtain a successful research/development/innovation from the initial idea to the marketplace.

For more information, contact:

Jean-David LEAO,
marketing manager,
Institute Carnot LISA
Tel: +33 5 56 07 42 99
E-mail: Jd.leao@lisa-carnot.eu
Website: www.lisa-carnot.eu

Added 02 July 2010 in category Innovation EU Vol2-1