Programs
Institut Curie researchers are involved in many national and international, public and private research programs. As a private foundation, the Institut Curie mobilizes all available funds to ensure that cooperation between public and private funding is a daily reality. This financial policy enables the Institut Curie to diversify resources, reduce risks, and thereby guarantee the independence of its research policy.
The basic and translational research is the fruit of various projects, such as:
- Incentive and Cooperative Research Programs (Pics) of the Institut Curie funded by the Institut Curie itself and guaranteed by provisions specially collected for this purpose, notably through public donations.
- National and international research proposals submitted in response to funding opportunity announcements by state bodies such as the French Cancer Research Institute (INCa) and French National Research Agency (ANR), by research organizations (centers of excellence in cancer research, etc), and by the European Union, through the European Research Council (ERC). These funding bodies select and finance the best proposals from research teams working in specified fields.
Such financial backing is frequently allocated directly to Institut Curie researchers, teams, and research units.
- Specific funding programs to host junior and senior researchers who come to the Institut Curie. Research teams can in this way benefit from the experience of eminent professors on sabbatical leave at the Institut Curie, and innovative projects of young post-doctoral fellows—all from outside France—help create a research environment conducive to discoveries and future collaborations.
- Research contracts which closely link the research projects of certain Institut Curie research teams with foundations working in the healthcare field, patient groups, research centers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and so forth.
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