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Institut Carnot Voir et Entendre

Institut de la Vision

17, rue de Moreau

75012 Paris

France

Biology of sensory systems

development

  iPS cells (Progenitors of retina cells)
  Cell therapy
  Optogenetic
  Gene therapy
  Study of inflammation in pathological

processes

Processes of physiological and

pathological vascularisations

Pharmacology, drug discovery,

pharmaco-toxicity

Cohorts analysis : genotyping,

phenotyping

Low vision
Mathematical modeling of vision

Know-how and skills

Research personnel
(full-time equivalent):

270

including PhD students:

Partnership
research incomes:

4,5 M

€

Global budget:

25,8 M

€

www.instituts-carnot.eu

Technological core facilities

Imaging by brainbow-technique, two-photon and

confocal microscopy, slide scanner, etc...

Retinal Imaging: SLO, OCT, adaptive optics

Phenotyping of small animals and non-human

primates

Patch-clamp, Multi Electrode Array
Genotyping, sequencing
Vectorology, histology, biochemistry
Cell culture (cell models of pathologies)
High Throughput Screening (HTS/HCS)
Core facilities dedicated to handicap: HomeLab

(experimental apartment), Streetlab (artificial street),

low vision simulator

Imagerie Brainbow : hippocampe

Professor José-Alain Sahel

1,2,4

Director
+33 (0)1 53 46 25 13
secretariat.sahel@institut-vision.org
Professor Christine Petit

1,3

Professor at Collège de France
+33 (0)1 45 68 89 64
christine.petit@pasteur.fr
Romain Goument
Project manager
+33 (0)1 53 46 26 08
romain.goument@institut-vision.org

CONTACTS

Components of the «Voir et Entendre» Carnot Institute

Fondation Voir et Entendre (Foundation of scientific cooperation seeing and hearing)

Research Center Institut de la Vision (Joint Research Unit UMRS 968, INSERM/

UPMC/CNRS)

Research Unit on Genetics and Physiology of Hearing (UMRS 1120, INSERM/

PASTEUR)

Clinical Investigation Center (CIC 1423) of CHNO XV-XX (INSERM/CHNO)

Reference center for retinal rare diseases