A pluri-disciplinary and integrative approach

Institut Carnot LISA 

11, rue Gaspard Monge 

Parc Industriel Bersol 2 

33600 Pessac

France

Jean-David LEAO 
+33 (0)5 56 07 42 99 
jd.leao@iterg.com

CONTACTS

Research personnel  
(full-time equivalent): 

149

including PhD students: 

37

Partnership  
research incomes: 

4 700 k

€

Global budget: 

9 800 k

€

www.instituts-carnot.eu

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© IMBL

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The professional expertise of the LISA 

Carnot Institute covers a broad range 

of research in the field of fats and oils: 

specialty chemicals, biophysics, clinical 

studies, epidemiology, biochemistry 

and nutritional physiology.

The strategic positioning of the 

LISA Carnot Institute is focused 

on three major themes:

 Health and Nutrition & Food Safety

•   

Improving the general health 

of the population by optimizing 

the quality of dietary lipids

•   

Balancing the health benefits 

and risks of dietary lipids by 

improving industrial processes

•   

Encouraging the fats and oils industry 

to adopt a sustainable approach 

consistent with economic, environmental 

and societal expectations

 Health & Biomolecules

•  

Understanding lipid metabolism 

and biological function

•  

Developing simple and effective analytical 

tools adapted to biological media

•  

Developing non-invasive medical 

diagnosis methods (lipid probes 

and stable isotope tracers)

 Green chemistry and Bioenergies

• 

Developing new biofuels

•  

Pursuing innovative research in order 

to develop new bioproducts

•  

Scaling-up technological processes 

to industrial level in order to 

develop new bioproducts

Electron microscope image 

of the lipid-rich tubercle 

bacillus inside an infected 

macrophage.

© Chantal de Chastellier

Galactolipid

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