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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
CEA and the Cyclopharma Laboratories, in partnership with company Orphachem and University Francois Rabelais in Tours, signed an exclusive license agreement for a new radiotracer for the early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease by PET scan. Phase I trials are underway.
A consortium composed of CEA, the European Vaccine Initiative, Institut Pasteur and Themis Bioscience is launching the Zikavax project, with the goal of developing a vaccine against infection by the Zika virus.
The WEST tokamak produced its first plasma on December 14, 2016 and is now preparing to test key components for ITER.
Stanislas Dehaene, professor at the Collège de France and a researcher at the CEA-I2BM, has won the “Lire” prize for the best book of the year in the science category, for “Le code de la conscience” (The Code of Consciousness).
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CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.