Gérard Collomb, Senator and Mayor of Lyon, President of Greater Lyon and Chairman of SEM Patrimoniale urban development company, Jean-Jack Queyranne, President of the Rhône-Alpes Regional Council, former State Minister, Philippe Archinard, President of Lyonbiopole, Alexis Perret, Delegate General Manager of Nexity Immobilier d’Entreprise business property developer, inaugurated the new building of the Accinov platform in the presence of Jean-François Carenco, Prefect of the Rhône-Alpes Region and Rhône County, and Philippe Chêne, President of Accinov, along with Alain Mérieux, Chairman of Mérieux Institute, and Christopher Viehbacher, CEO of Sanofi.

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Lyonbipole Celebrates Inauguration of Biotech Park

Feb 02 2014

Lyonbiopole, the competitiveness cluster for health in the Rhône-Alpes region, celebrated the launch of Accinov, a new start-up park for biotech companies developing breakthrough technologies, products and services. Selected through a call-for-projects process launched jointly by the DGCIS (General Directorate for Competitiveness, Industry and Services) of the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Employment, alongside the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations development bank, the park was also supported by local government: Greater Lyon and the Rhône-Alpes Regional Council through a State-Region project contract for the period 2007-2013. It provides ready-to-use clean room labs offering bio-safety level (BSL 2 facilities as well as support services for advanced technological activities.

Opened in November Accinov already hosts the core facility for bio-production protein engineering of The BIOASTER Technology research Institute.

After 16 months of construction work, business property developer Nexity has just delivered a 6500 square-meter turnkey building of four stories, with 3 bio-production units, 24 BSL-2 clean room labs and offices to the owner, SEM Patrimoniale of Greater Lyon.

"We are very proud to have completed this ambitious project for SEM Patrimoniale. It demonstrates the wide range of skills offered by Nexity, from simple office buildings to highly complex sites with labs, clean rooms, bio-production units, cleaning, cooling and storage rooms,” added Alexis Perret, Delegate General Manager, Nexity Immobilier d’Entreprise.

“We are pleased to offer companies a one-of-a-kind platform that complements Lyonbiopole’s other infrastructures, in particular that of the Infectious Diseases Center. Accinov will host firms entering the market phase of their development. The aim is to boost the regional ecosystem of such firms by giving them a solid basis for development. These industrial-quality turnkey facilities give them a leading edge,” explained Philippe Archinard, President of Lyonbiopole.