Pierre and Marie Curie University

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Pierre and Marie Curie University
Université Pierre et Marie Curie

Established:	1971,following the division of the University of Paris (1253)
Type:	Public
President:	Jean-Charles Pomerol
Students:	30,000
Location:	Paris, France
Campus:	Paris Ivry Orsay Saint-Cyr-l'École Roscoff Banyuls-sur-Mer Villefranche-sur-Mer
Nickname:	Paris 6
Affiliations:	Paris Universitas LERU EUA
Website:	www.upmc.fr

The UPMC

Pierre and Marie Curie University (Université Pierre et Marie Curie or UPMC - Paris Universitas or Paris 6) is a French university, principal inheritor of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris. UPMC is now the largest scientific and medical complex in France, active in all fields of research with scope and achievements at the highest level, as can be seen with the many awards regularly won by UPMC researchers and with the many international partnerships it has across all five continents.^[1]

It has over 180 laboratories, most of them associated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.

It is located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement in Paris.

Some of its most notable institutes and laboratories include the Institut Henri Poincaré, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6, Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu/Chevaleret (shared with University Paris Diderot) and the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel (shared with Ecole Normale Supérieure).

The University's Faculty of Medicine includes the Pitié-Salpêtrière and Saint-Antoine hospitals.

The University is ranked 39th in the World and 1st in France by the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities.^[2] The UPMC is a member of Paris Universitas.

Some statistics about UPMC:^[3]

30000 students (22 000 science students – 8 000 medical students)
8000 post-graduate students
2200 post-graduate diplomas (DEA and DESS i.e. master' equivalent) and 150 engineering degrees (master' equivalent) awarded each year
4000 teaching academics/researchers
3000 engineers & technicians, administrative & logistic staff 4 broad interdisciplinary sectors of research
180 research laboratories
300 doctorates in medicine
700 doctorates in science on thesis work
550 contractual cooperation agreements for research on innovative programs
330 partner institutes in science and medicine
100 contractual agreements under the terms of research projects subsidized by the European Commission
6 Centers of Excellence selected by the European Commission to host doctoral students granted Marie Curie scholarships
4250 students and 121 different nationalities

1 History
2 Main Research Sectors
3 The UPMC Doctoral Schools(Les écoles doctorales de l'UPMC)
4 Research Institues
5 Research Laboratories, and Units
6 University Campus(Locations)
7 See also
8 References

[edit] History

The campus was built in the 1950s and 60s, on a site previously occupied by wine storehouses. The Dean, Marc Zamanski, saw the Jussieu campus standing as a tangible symbol of scientific thought in the heart of Paris, with the Faculty of Science, set in the Latin Quarter, as part of an intellectual and spiritual continuum linked to the university history of Paris. In 1968, the Paris Faculty of Science was divided into a number of different universities. The University of Paris 6 is the main heir to the scientific tradition and was set up in 1971; it shares the Jussieu campus with the University of Paris 7 and the Paris Geophysical Institute (Institut de Physique du Globe). In 1974, The University of Paris 6 chose a prestigious champion when it adopted the official title of "Université Pierre et Marie Curie", and ever since has endeavored to perpetuate the scientific legacy of these prestigious forebears. UPMC is now the largest scientific and medical complex in France, active in all fields of research with scope and achievements at the highest level, as can be seen with the many awards regularly won by UPMC researchers and with the many international partnerships it has across all five continents.^[4]

[edit] Main Research Sectors

Research at UPMC covers fields converging with the major lines of international research : life sciences, health, genomics & post-genomics, sciences of the universe and the environment, optics, laser technology, information processing, communications, and modeling.

Research falls into four broad, interdisciplinary sectors :

Modeling & Engineering

Matter & New Materials

Space, Environment & Ecology

Genomics, Cellular Communication Systems & New Therapeutic Approaches

These sectors cover a full range, from pure and basic research to application-focused studies only. Many research laboratories are involved in more than one sector. The development of research projects can be seen as the foundation stone for innovation and as the medium-term response to the challenges of a modern society expressing genuine solidarity.

Modeling & Engineering

UPMC has achieved levels of excellence in most fields in the modeling & engineering sector. UPMC is the leading university in the world in mathematics: pure mathematics, digital computation, probability, statistics, and combinatorics. Information Technology is focused on areas of excellence: architecture, networks, systems, artificial intelligence, programming and scientific computation. In the field of electronics, work is concentrated on the articulation of architecture, electronics, artificial intelligence and signal processing.

In mechanics strong links have been built up with applied mathematics and macroscopic physics, working on future developments: fluid dynamics, instability, turbulence, energy transfers, complex systems and coupled phenomena.

In this sector, UPMC encourages initiatives in scientific and medical imaging, artificial intelligence and robotics. Such genuinely multidisciplinary initiatives involve the concerted efforts of mathematicians and experts in electronics, information technology and mechanical science, who have the facilities for working with medical teams wishing to collaborate on projects on medical imaging, micro-surgery, assistance for disabilities and artificial organs. Research cooperation agreements have been set up with leading industrial groups and these cooperation programs will now be institutionalized through the new department for industrial and business activities [SAIC - Service d’Activités Industrielles et Commerciales].

Matter & New Materials

Research in physics at UPMC covers virtually every field in the discipline. Subject areas which are often cross-disciplinary, involving a number of research laboratories, have been organized around four lines where the university has developed extensive expertise and is now at the leading edge of research :

Historic View of University

basic phenomena: fields, particles, atoms and molecules
optics (lasers and measurement) and diluted matter
condensed matter: structure, order and disorder and complex materials
nanonetworks, surfaces and interfaces

The chemistry laboratories have based their lines of research on the principle of interdependence between synthesis, analysis, studies of structures and properties of new chemical compounds :

design and production of new materials
characterization of new materials using different forms of spectroscopy and microscopic techniques, and the study of their properties
studies of reaction mechanisms
modeling chemical reactions
development of new analytical techniques

Projects involving a number of disciplines are mainly joint studies of new materials. Applications concern fields as diverse as concretes, catalysis and new materials for rapid information technology, for analytical sciences and environmental tests, as well as new forms of energy storage and conversion.

Space, Environment & Ecology

Environmental studies, ranging from global to local, are at the borderlines or intersections of physics, chemistry, earth sciences and biology, and have expanded greatly. Two key lines have been developed :

the environment in the terrestrial context with research projects related to climate change, the impact of human activities on the continental and marine ecosystems, and the management of natural resources.

the environment in the context of space for astrophysics, with the establishment of the Paris Institute of Astrophysics, and investigations in the field of astroparticles.

Genomics, Cellular Communication Systems & New Therapeutic Approaches

Modern biology requires an integrated approach encompassing genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology, cell biology, the biology of development and physiology. UPMC has focused on two strategic areas as priorities:

further development of Group Research Institutes [IFR - Instituts Fédératifs de Recherche] The IFR at Saint-Antoine Teaching Hospital specializes in the physiopathology of cancers, inflammatory processes and the hormonal mechanisms involved.

The Pitié-Salpêtrière Teaching Hospital is organized with two IFRs, one concentrating on neuroscience and the other on the heart, muscle and vessels. A third area of research covers the subjects of immunity and infection.

The IFR on Cell Communication & Regulation on the “Cordeliers” campus is a center of excellence in the field of cell biology, nutrition and immunology.

On the Jussieu campus, the IFR for integrated biology focuses on the integrated study of cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in development, reproduction, and the major physiological functions of animal and plant organisms, and their evolution.

Network development of the interface between physics, chemistry, biology and medicine, by establishing a network of laboratories around an interdisciplinary technological platform development of a group program on post-genomics and proteomics, and specifically focused on the phenotyping and imaging of smalls animals.

[edit] The UPMC Doctoral Schools(Les écoles doctorales de l'UPMC)

The UPMC doctoral schools are built around their own research teams, which are mostly associated with the CNRS, INSERM, INRA, INRIA, or IRD, as well as on research teams from other universities and partner organisations in the Île-de-France area. Each school organises doctoral studies in its own particular field and these are grouped around the four main research themes of the university.

View from the Seine River

Internal View

Pole of Modeling and Engineering

Pole of Matter and New Materials

ED 107 - Doctoral school of physics
ED 381 - Elementary components - complex systems
ED 388 - Physical chemistry and analytical chemistry
ED 389 - Physics from particles to solids, models & experiments
ED 397 - Physics and chemistry of materials
ED 406 - Molecular chemistry

Pole of Spaces, Environment, and Ecology

Pole of life sciences and health

[edit] Research Institues

[edit] Research Laboratories, and Units

Historic View of The University

Pole of Modeling & Engineering

Francilienne federation in mechanics of materials (F2M2SP) - FR 2609
Mathematics of Paris Centers - FR 2830
Equip with Combinative and optimization - UMR 7090
Laboratory action, neuroimagery, modeling - UMR S 742
Laboratory of musical acoustics (LAM) - UMR 7604
Laboratory of energetics and mechanics of the internal fluids (LEMFIRE 2866
Laboratory of epidemiology, information system, modeling - UMR S 707
Laboratory of functional imagery - UMR S 678
Parametric laboratory of imagery (LIP) - UMR 7623
Laboratory of data processing of Paris 6 (LIP6) - UMR 7606
Laboratory of data processing for the mechanics and the engineerings SI) - UPR 3251
Laboratory of fluids - automatic - thermal systems (FAST) - UMR 7608
Laboratory of genius of the processes plasmas and surface treatments 3492
Electric laboratory of genius of Paris (LGEP) - UMR 8507
Laboratory of mechanics and technology (LMT-Cachan) - UMR 8535
Physical laboratory of mechanics (LMP) - FRE 2867
Laboratory of modeling in mechanics - UMR 7607
Laboratory of cognitive neurosciences and cerebral imagery - UPR 640
Laboratory of physics and mechanics of heterogeneous mediums - U 36
Laboratory of probabilities and random models - UMR 7599
Laboratory of public health & medical computing (SPIM) - EA 2389
Laboratory of advanced simulation of the transport of hydrocarbons - 1058
Laboratory of theoretical and applied statistics (LSTA) - EA 3124
Laboratory of the instruments and systems of Ile de France (LISIF A 2385
Jacques-Louis Lions Laboratory - UMR 7598
Laboratory for the use of intense lasers (LULI) - UMR 7605

Pole of Matter & New Materials

Molecular chemistry of Paris Centers: organics, inorganic and biolog - FR 2769
Dynamics of the complex systems out of balance - EDF 21
Fundamental interactions - FR 2687
Chemical sciences of the measurement and the analysis of Paris Cente FR 2702
Spectroscopy, matter and radiation, reactivity and theory - FR 2622
Laboratory of electrochemistry and analytical chemistry - UMR 7575
Laboratory of molecular, cellular and tissue biophysics (BioMoCETI) 7033
Chemistry laboratory of the condensed matter - UMR 7574
Chemistry laboratory of polymers - UMR 7610
Inorganic chemistry laboratory and molecular materials - UMR 7071
Organic chemistry laboratory - UMR 7611
Physical chemistry laboratory - matter and radiation (LCP-MR) - UMR
Theoretical chemistry laboratory - UMR 7616
Laboratory of dynamics, interactions and reactivity (LADIR) - UMR 70
Laboratory of physicochemistry Curie - UMR 168
Laboratory of physicochemistry of polymers and dispersed mediums R 7615
Laboratory of nuclear physics and high energies (LPNHE) - UMR 7585
Laboratory of statistical physics of the ENS - UMR 8550
Laboratory of theoretical physics of the ENS - UMR 8549
Laboratory of theoretical physics of the condensed matter - UMR 7600
Laboratory of theoretical physics and high energies (LPTHE) - UMR 75
Laboratory of reactivity of surface - UMR 7609
Laboratory of spectroscopy in polarized light - UPR 5
Laboratory of synthesis, structure and function of bioactive molecules UMR 7613
Laboratory of electrochemical interfaces and systems - UPR 15
Laboratory of the ionic liquids and charged interfaces (LI2C) - UMR
Laboratory of nanometric and mesoscopic materials (LM2N) - UMR 7070
Laboratory of the processes of activation by transfer of energy uni ronic or radiative - UMR 864
Laboratory of the selective processes in organic chemistry and bioor - UMR 8642
Laboratory of proteins: structural biochemistry and functional calcu FRE 2852
Laboratory of the interfacial systems on a nanometric scale - UMR 71
Laboratory Kastler Brossel (LKB) - UMR 8552
Laboratory Pierre Aigrain - UMR 8551

Pole of Space, Environment & Ecology

TYPE OF VINE Centers Paris Azur in Geology - FR 32
Ecology, biodiversity, evolution, environment - IFR 101
Biological station of Roscoff - FR 2424
Center for the study of terrestrial and planetary environments - UMR 8
Laboratory of adaptation and diversity in marine environment UMR 714
Laboratory for the study of radiation and matter in astrophysics A) - UMR 8112
Laboratory of space and instrumental studies in astrophysics (LESIA) R 8109
Biological laboratory of oceanography of Banyuls - UMR 7621
Laboratory of oceanography of Villefranche/sea (LOV) - UMR 7093
Laboratory of oceanography and the climate: numerical experiments on roaches - UMR 7159
Laboratory of biogeochimy of the continental environments - UM 7618
Laboratory of biology of marine organizations and the ecosystems R 5178
Laboratory of biology of development - UMR 7009
Laboratory of conservation of the species, restoration and followed ations - UMR 5173
Laboratory of geoscience - Azure - UMR 6526
Laboratory of marine geoscience - UMR 7097
Laboratory of dynamic meteorology (LMD) - UMR 8539
Laboratory of mineralogy - petrology - UMR 7160
Laboratory of paleobiodiversity and paleoenvironments - UMR 5143
Laboratory of evolutionary parasitology - UMR 7103
Laboratory of physicochemistry of geological fluids - UMR 7047
Laboratory of molecular physics for the atmosphere and astrophysics A) - UMR 7092
Laboratory of the structure and operation of continental hydrous sys (SISYPHUS) - UMR 7619
Laboratory of systematic, adaptation, evolution - UMR 7138
Laboratory of tectonics - UMR 7072
Laboratory of the adaptations and evolution of muscular systems - FRE 2696
Laboratory of biomineralisation and paleoenvironments - I 247
Laboratory of the adaptive Mechanisms: organizations at the communit UMR 7179
Laboratory of models in cellular and evolutionary biology - UMR
Laboratory of marine plants and biomolecules - UMR 7139
Laboratory of the operation and evolution of ecological systems 7625
Laboratory of the time-space frame of reference - UMR 8630
Sea and health Laboratory - UMR 7150
Oceanological observatory of Banyuls - UMS 2348
Oceanological observatory of Villefranche/Mer - UMS 829
Aeronomy service - UMR 7620

Pole of Genomics, Cellular Communication Systems & New Therapeutic Approaches

Integrative biology - IFR 83
Heart, muscle, vessels - IFR 14
Immunity, cancer and infection - IFR 113
Neurosciences - IFR 70
Center for molecular genetics - UPR 2167
Group myology - UMR S 787
Laboratory antibiotics and digestive flora - EA 2392
Laboratory of chemical and therapeutic epidemiology of infection HIV - UMR S 720
Laboratory of cellular and molecular immunobiology of the parasitic tions - UMR S 511
Laboratory of cellular and clinical immunology - UMR S 255
Laboratory of cellular and tissue immunology - UMR S 543
Laboratory of immunopathology and therapeutic immunointervention - U 681
Laboratory of infectious immunophysiopathology - URA 1961
Cellular laboratory of biochemistry - UMR 7098
Laboratory of biology of the interactions neurons/glie - UMR S 711
Laboratory of biology of the development - UMR 7622
Laboratory of biology and physiol. interactions neuroresp. and cardi . - EA 2397
Laboratory of biology and therapeutic of immunizing pathologies - UM 7
Laboratory of orofacial biology - UMR S 714
Laboratory of fundamental cancerology and private clinic of the soli ours - UMR S 482
Laboratory of tumour growth, differentiation and processes - UMR 51
Laboratory of experimental cytology and vegetable morphogenesis (CEM EA 3494
Laboratory of differentiation and proliferation of the adult cells s - EA 1638
Laboratory of dynamics of genetic information: base fundamental and r - UMR S 7147
Laboratory of dynamics and physiopathology of the neural networks - 667
Laboratory of genetics of the reproduction - EA 1533
Laboratory of genetics of the sensory deficits - UMR S 587
Cardiovascular laboratory of epidemiologic and molecular genetics of ologies - UMR S 525
Laboratory of genetics and pathogenic capacity of the viruses - EA 2
Laboratory of genetics mol. neurotransmission and neurodegenerative process fs-UMR7091
Molecular laboratory of genetics of yeasts - URA 2171
Laboratory of molecular viral genetics - EA 3500
Laboratory of the instability of microsatellites and cancers - U 762
Laboratory of nutrition and obesity: genetic and tra. approaches ptonic - UMR S 755
Laboratory of metabolism and intestinal differentiation - UMR S 505
Laboratory of modeling in clinical research - EA 3974
Laboratory of functional neuro-anatomy of behavior and its disor - UMR S 610
Laboratory of neurobiology of the adaptive processes - UMR 7102
Laboratory of neurobiology of intercellular signals - UMR 7101
Cellular laboratory of neuroimagery in vivo - ERT 1059
Laboratory of neurology and experimental therapeutics - UMR S 679
Laboratory of neuropsychopharmacology - UMR S 677
Laboratory of molecular and cellular neurosignalisation - UMR S 706
Vascular laboratory of pathology and renal endocrinology - UMR S 36
Laboratory of pharmacologenetic, metabolism and pharmacodynamics - E 6
Laboratory of physiol. and pharmaco. syst. cardiac, vasc. and musk. hy and patho. - EA 3975
Laboratory of cellular and molecular physiology of plants - FRE
Laboratory of physiology of the insect, indication and communication R A 1272
Laboratory of physiology of seeds - EA 2388
Laboratory of renal physiology and genomics - UMR 7134
Laboratory of physiology and vascular and renal pharmacology - UMR S
Laboratory of physiology and physiopathology - UMR 7079
Laboratory of physiology and physiopathology of motricity at the man R S 731
Laboratory of physiology and cellular therapy of the cornea - EA 398
Laboratory of membrane and molecular physiology of the chloroplast - 7141
Laboratory of physiology, biology of organizations, populations, ractions - UMR S 719
Laboratory of cellular and molecular physiopathology of the retina - S 592
Laboratory of physiopathology of the adipocyte and the hepatic cells R S 680
Laboratory of physiopathology of development - EA 4053
Laboratory of physiopathology and therapy of the striated muscle - U 582
Laboratory of physiopathology, genetics, pharmacol. cardiovascular r ning - UMR S 621
Research laboratory exp., epidemio. and mol. for resistance to antib s - EA 1541
Molecular research laboratory on antibiotics - UMR S 655
Epidemiologic research laboratory in neurology and psychopathology - S 708
Epidemiologic research laboratory in perinatal health and health of omen - UMR S 149
Laboratory of replanning and repair of renal fabric - UMR S 702
Laboratory of resistance and survival of the tumoral cells - UMR S 7
Laboratory of cellular, dynamic indication circulatory and athéroscl - UMR 7131
Membrane laboratory of traffic and indication in the epithelial cell MR S 538
Laboratory of transduction of the signal and plasticity in the nervo stem - UMR S 536
Laboratory of vulnerability, adaptation and psychopathology - UMR 75
Laboratory of the affections of the myeline and the muscular ionic c ls - UMR S 546
Laboratory of the chimiokines and their receivers: cerebral function neuroendo. - UMR S 732
Laboratory of bio. determinants and comport. obesities and disea f the nutrion - EA 3502
Laboratory of the pathogenic interactions plants - UMR A 217
Laboratory of the diseases with let us request and immune system - U 712
Laboratory of the neuropeptides exchanges and hydrous and cardiovasc regulation - UMR S 691
Laboratory of nutritional and metabolic pathologies: obesity and dia - UMR S 671
Laboratory of the conveyors ABC and epitheliums normal and tumoral - 499
Laboratory of pain and stress - UMR S 713
Laboratory of the cortex and epilepsy - UMR S 739
Laboratory of the normal and phatologic development of the brain - U 6
Laboratory of dyslipoproteinaemia and atherosclerosis: genetics, metabol nd therap. - UMR S 551

[edit] University Campus(Locations)

In PARIS
Campus Jussieu
Campus Pitié
- CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière
- Stomatologie et chirurgie maxillo-faciale
Campus Saint-Antoine
- CHU Saint-Antoine
Campus Les Cordeliers
- Centre de recherches biomédicales des Cordeliers
Campus Curie
Campus Boucicaut / Lourmel
Campus Passy - Kennedy
- Laboratoire d'informatique
Campus Chevaleret
- Laboratoires et services de mathématiques
Campus Raspail
- Biochimie des signaux régulateurs cellulaires et moléculaires
In REGION PARISIENNE
Campus Ivry
- Chimie théorique
- Cytologie expérimentale et morphogènese végétale
- Physique moléculaire et applications
- Instruments et systèmes
- Interfaces et systèmes électrochimiques
- Plasmas denses
- Utilisation des lasers intenses
- Etude du rayonnement et de la matière en astrophysique
- Physiologie végétale appliquée
- Parasitologie végétale
- Physiologie cellulaire et moléculaire des plantes
Site Orsay
- Energétique et de mécanique des fluides internes
- Fluides automatiques et systèmes thermiques
Site Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole
- Laboratoire de Mécanique physique
In Other REGIONS
Campus Roscoff
- Observatoire océanologique de Roscoff
Campus Banyuls sur mer
- Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls sur mer
Campus Villefranche
- Observatoire océanologique de Villefranche sur mer

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