Inaugurated last October 13, the international research center marks a new stage of the Curie Institute's scientific and medical policy, underscored by a 16% growth in research activity. A staff of one hundred with recruitment ongoing has been broken into about 10 teams that will be working out of the 3,225 square-meter center on Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the heart of Paris, near the Hospital and other facilities of the Curie Institute Research Center. The operation cost 26 million euros, including 19 million for the building and 7 million for the initial equipment at the Center.
The Center, a bridge between research and medicine, will be exploring the ties between stem cells and cancer. "The development of an egg cell, with the properties of a stem cell, is a mirror image of tumor transformation, a slightly deformed mirror image to be sure, but a mirror that nonetheless sheds light on how cancer arises," explained Professor Daniel Louvard, Research Center Director at the Curie Institute, and CNRS
special class research director. The Center opening reflects the logic of the additional scientific topics and bench-to-bedside transfer that has been ongoing for several years at the Curie Institute. "The Hospital will provide the Center with the opportunity to establish, cultivate, and explore the ties with medicine, specifically in pediatric cancers," underscored Professor Pierre Bey, Director of the Curie Institute Hospital.
