NeurATRIS is a research infrastructure intended to accelerate the transformation of basic research discoveries into medical innovations for the treatment of nervous system diseases.
NeurATRIS benefits from a unique positionningAll research work carried out by NeurATRIS focuses on Parkinson's, Huntington's, Alzheimer's diseases and Multiple Sclerosis as well as neurodevelopmental disorders.
NeurATRIS’ objectives are mutiple :
- To accelerate the understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms in the adult or developing brain,
- To facilitate the realisation of pre-clinical and clinical trials in order to validate new therapies,
- To develop innovative approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of these pathologies.
NeurATRIS combines two additional approaches :
1- Research for innovationThis first approach aims to strengthen fundamental research by innovation, through 4 major research programmes initiated and carried out by the NeurATRIS partner teams:
- Cellular therapies,
- Gene therapies,
- In vivo assessment and therapeutic efficacy
- Drug therapies
The objectives of this approach are to :
- identify the scientific and technical difficulties in translational research, in neuroscience and in neurology and design projects to overcome them.
- develop innovative translational research methods, develop and make available predictive and relevant cellular and animal models, and propose new effective therapeutic approaches.
2- A complete offer of services for collaborative researchNeurATRIS also proposes a complete range of services and/or collaboration for the realisation of external projects dedicated to the development of technologies and their applications in the diagnosis and care of neurological neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental diseases.
Thanks to a one-stop shop, NeurATRIS proposes an easier access to high-technology platforms by offering to public and private actors (academic researchers, biotech, pharmaceutical, industrial, clinicians). The whole consortium's preclinical and clinical facilities offer a complete and powerful range of services covering the entire value chain of translational research in neuroscience.