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OPALE, the Organization for Partnerships in Leukemia

The OPALE Carnot institute is the reference partner to the healthcare industry for the research and development of innovative solutions aimed at diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients in the field of leukemia and related diseases.

A research consortium with no international equivalent

With 27 research entities, OPALE represents the largest part of France’s academic expertise in the research and development of therapeutic and diagnostic solutions for leukemia and related diseases. It offers healthcare companies top level expertise in the field and a unique and comprehensive range of state-of-the-art R&D offers to accelerate innovation across the entire R&D value chain. For the present event, they will be associated with a dozen other research entities that may join OPALE in the future.

One-stop-shop access to a comprehensive R&D offer

Thanks to a central coordination and operational support team, OPALE serves as a single destination for industry’s developments of new solutions for the treatment and diagnosis of leukemias and related diseases, regardless of partner’s size, nationality or project type. OPALE’s partnering offer ranges from the identification of novel therapeutic targets to RWE studies, going through preclinical, translational and clinical developments, including access to drug discovery, drug screening, clinical batches bioproduction and immuno-monitoring platforms, as well as to unique patient databases and annotated biocollections.

OPALE’s key figures (in 4 years since inception)

581 R&D contracts with 172 socio-economic partners / 55% big pharma with repeat contracts / 48% of foreigners among the industrial partners / 322 publications in referenced scientific journals in 2022 /several spinoff companies created or in construction.

The strength of the Carnot label

Founded in 2006 by France’s Ministry of Higher Education and Research, the highly selective Carnot Label aims at fostering partnership-based research, i.e. research conducted by academia in partnership with socio-economic players, primarily industry (from SMEs to large corporations), to serve their needs. The 39 Carnot institutes are public research organizations with proven, high-level R&I competencies, that develop top level basic research while professionalizing applied research to foster innovation with industrial partners.

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