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A major advance for the use of medical cannabis!

Lucile Mollet and her team have been working on medical cannabis for several years. They are collaborating with the company Overseed and the CHU d'Orléans on preclinical and clinical work to study various therapeutic indications for cannabis.

Indeed, medical cannabis should be authorized in France and reimbursed by the health insurance system (with a secure prescription) from January 1, 2025.

To find out more, click here.

 

CNRS Chimie Emergence@International

Federico Perche, a researcher in the "MACS : Molecular Assemblies and Complex Systems" team, has been awarded CNRS Chimie Emergence@International.

He will be going to the United States to develop research collaborations in his field of mRNA and siRNA delivery.

During a 2-week stay, he will visit the Universities of San Diego (Pr Kwon and  Pr Shresta, Arizona (Dr Liu), Texas A&M (Dr Zhu) and Chicago (Dr Voth).

Federico has started a collaboration with Dr Shresta on mRNA vaccination and is looking to develop new collaborations.

Radio Campus Orléans broadcast “Astrobiology, search of life on Mars”

Astrobiology investigates the origin of life, the conditions and processes that support or challenge life, and whether life exists or has ever existed elsewhere in the Universe.

In this broadcast for Radio Campus, Tetyana Milojevic talks about Mars-relevant biosignatures, antient forms of life on Earth, microbial survival outside the International Space Station and other space life science investigations at CBM.

20th IDDST – OSAKA – Japon – session 7 : Frontiers in Pharmacology and Toxicology, Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics

Alcohol dependence remains a major public health issue. Depression alone affects almost 300 million people worldwide. Alcohol addiction is the second leading cause of avoidable death, with some 49,000 deaths a year in France. 5% of the French population has a severe alcohol use disorder (AUD), with the onset of dependence according to DSM-V and ICD-10 criteria. Against this backdrop, psychedelics have emerged in recent years as an attractive option. Among them, psilocybin, derived from mushrooms, although known for its hallucinogenic effects, has recently received renewed interest. Indeed, several studies have shown that it has promising therapeutic properties for treating major depression and addiction.

Dr Raphaël Serreau was selected to coordinate a session and give a conference at IDDST in Japan, with researchers from the USA, Australia and Germany. My presentation on psychedelics prompted many questions about the mechanisms of action in harm reduction, and what clinical trials were underway to demonstrate the efficacy of psychedelics.

To date, there are 134 clinical trials on the subject. The FDA has selected psychedelics as a molecule of major interest in mental health pathologies.

2024 edition of “The Future of Molecular MR” international conference

The "Metal complexes and MRI" group of CBM is organizing the 2024 edition of "The Future of Molecular MR" meeting in Orléans which will gather 120 participants from over the world.

The objectives of this international conference are to establish current state of the art in molecular MR and pinpoint knowledge gaps, to identify adjacent technologies that can be combined with molecular MRI to create more accurate, ensitive, rapid and quantitative methods, and to bring leaders from different fields to challenge orthodoxy and identify new opportunities in molecular MR.

The meeting will take place in Hotel Dupanloup, Orléans, 17-20 June 2024.

Congress website

 

 

2024, April 18 – “La plongée, un sport sous pression”

A la MJC d'Olivet - Le Moulin de la Vapeur - 127 rue Marcel Belot

Jeudi 18 avril à 18h30 - Entrée gratuite mais sur réservation Par ici !

Avec Martine Beaufour, enseignante à l'université d'Orléans et chercheure au Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, équipe "Spectrométrie de masse fonctionnelle des assemblages moléculaires"

Nos espaces aquatiques sont nombreux et parfois vastes : lacs, mers, océans... Quoi de mieux que la plongée sous-marine pour les explorer ? Faune, épaves, sites archéologiques, il y a tant de choses à voir !

Lors d’une plongée, tout plongeur s’expose à des variations de pression. Nous verrons pendant cette présentation comment la pression varie avec la profondeur en milieu aquatique, et en conséquence, comment la pression impacte la gestion d’une plongée sur de nombreux aspects.