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Jean Louis Viovy is a French physicist and polymer scientist and currently a researcher at

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

(France). Since 1999, he leads within the

Curie Institute (Paris) Centre of protontherapy Institut Curie is one of the leading medical, biological and biophysical research centres in the world. It is a private non-profit foundation operating a research center on biophysics, cell biology and oncology and a ho ...

the MMBM team (Macromolecules and Microsystems in Biology and Medicine) dedicated to research on lab-on-chips, bioanalytical methods and

translational medicine Translational medicine (often called translational science, of which it is a form) is defined by the European Society for Translational Medicine as "an interdisciplinary branch of the biomedical field supported by three main pillars: benchside, beds ...

. He was awarded the Bronze Medal of the CNRS (1983), the Polymer Prize of the French Chemical Society (1996), the Philip Morris Scientific Prize in 1996 and two OSEO Entrepreneurship Awards in 2004 and 2005.

Works

He is author or co-author of more than 180 articles and 20 patents and is a member of the board of the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society and of the Editorial Board of «

Biomicrofluidics ''Biomicrofluidics'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of research on fundamental physicochemical mechanisms associated with microfluidic, nanofluidic, and molecular/cellular biophysical phenomena in addition to n ...

». He is cofounder and member of the scientific advisory board of the French company Fluigent. He is also a cofounder of the Institut Pierre Gilles de Gennes for Microfluidics (IPGG).

References

External links

Research group website

Fluigent website
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