The IPBS is a joint research center of CNRS and the University of Toulouse in the heart of the main campus of the University of ToulouseIII - IPBS-Toulouse, Hybrid Seminar (Seminar Room)

Dr Olivier Neyrolles

Institut de pharmacologie et de biologie structurale, Toulouse, France The IPBS is a joint research center of the CNRS and the University of Toulouse. Occupying 12,000 m2 in the heart of the main campus of the University of Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier, which offers high-level multidisciplinary training in the fields of science, health and engineering, the IPBS is part of one of the most important scientific research poles in health and biological sciences in France.

The IPBS currently hosts more than 230 scientific and administrative staff, including more than 40 PhD students and post-doctoral fellows of multiple nationalities, who work in a stimulating and highly collaborative environment. The IPBS currently comprises 15 research groups working in the fields of tissue and cell microenvironment biology, and of molecular and structural mechanisms of disease, as well as 4 state-of-the-art technological facilities in proteomics, biophysics and structural biology, molecular and cellular imaging, and functional exploration, including in several BSL-3 laboratories for the study of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and other pulmonary and enteric infections, and more recently COVID-19. Our teams are involved in numerous national and international networks, and our work is supported by prestigious funding :

• from the European Commission, including the ERC and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie program,
• the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation,
• the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
• the NIH, MSDAVENIR,
• the Agence Nationale de la Recherche,
• the French National Agency for research on AIDS,
• the ARC Fondation for cancer research,
• the Ligue contre le cancer, and the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale, to name a few).