CEA - IRIG (INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE INTERDISCIPLINAIRE DE GRENOBLE)

The IRIG Institute, conducts since 2019 research in biology, health, nanosciences, cryotechnologies, energy and environment. IRIG welcomes about 1200 people in 10 joint research units, enabling the development of multidisciplinary research and giving the institute the capacity to address major societal challenges.
This research is based on state-of-the-art platforms and infrastructures as well as on expertise of excellence in order to develop academic and industrial partnerships.

Bionspired chemistry - Biomaterials - Alternative energies - Hydrogen - Hydrovoltaïcs - Batteries - Biofuels from algea - Human & Environmental toxicology of Plastics & additives - Hydrolyzates

Technologies and Products

Bioinspired catalysts for H₂, biogas reforming, methane production

Algal biotechnologies for 3G biofuels

Photochromic solar cells, artificial photosynthesis, solar chemistry

e-Fuels and electrochemical energy storage

Eco-toxicology of metallic nanoparticles (safer-by-design)

3D bioprinting of tissues and organs-on-chips

Clinical proteomics, biomarkers, drug candidates in oncology, infectious diseases, rare diseases

PLASTnet: CEA plastics network

Platforms: nanocaracterization, bioactive molecule screening, proteomics, integration of nano-objects and nanomaterials, lipidomics, Mössbauer, high-field NMR, CryoEM, ultra-high-resolution imaging