Institut de Biologie de Lille

In 1996, the “Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique” (CNRS), the French national organization for scientific research, with strong support of national and regional authorities, created the “Institut de Biologie de Lille” (IBL) located on campus of the Lille Pasteur Institute. The IBL research centre was founded to reinforce basic biology science in the North / Pas-de-Calais region by, for example, welcoming group leaders and permitting them to develop highly competitive research. Research programs were initially conducted in the fields of human genetics, cellular biology, cancer, microbiology and biomolecule chemistry.
IBL covers a total of 12,000 square meters with about 300 people : senior scientists, post-docs, PhD and master students, research assistants and technicians. The building possesses multiple core facilities such as in protein chemistry, biochemistry, molecular, cellular (confocal microscopy, atomic force microscopy...) and structural biology (radiocristallography), and genetics. Moreover, in close collaboration with the Lille Pasteur Institute, with which IBL forms a federative research institute (IFR 142), animal and NMR facilities are also available to conduct research programs.


Within the framework of a partnership with the universities of Lille I and Lille II, the IBL welcomes in its laboratories numerous graduate and under-graduate students.

The new Institute of Biology in Lille was launched in 1997 as a major basic research facility of the C.N.R.S. (National center of Scientific Research), out of a decision also involving the Ministry of research and the Conseil Regional Nord-Pas de Calais (country council). It is aimed at developing forefront international research in Life Sciences, especially in the fields of Human Genetics, Signal Transduction, Development and Cancer, Microbiology, and Structure-Function Relationships.