The Oncosphère Bordeaux project, led by the University of Bordeaux in collaboration with Inserm, CNRS, Institut Bergonié, CHU Bordeaux and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regional Council, aims to unite and promote all research efforts focused on cancer within the Bordeaux metropolitan area. This collective initiative is driven by an interdisciplinary scientific community of over 800 people.

Oncosphère Bordeaux plans to bring together most of its components on a single site, or even within a single facility, in order to create a unique and internationally renowned research ecosystem. This will foster inter-community collaboration to enhance attractiveness, innovation, knowledge transfer, and patient care. The project is part of the larger Oncosphère Nouvelle-Aquitaine initiative, which also includes sites in Limoges, Poitiers, La Rochelle, and Pau, broadening its research and development potential through regional complementarity.

Researchers affiliated with Oncosphère Bordeaux have authored over 10,000 scientific publications in international journals since 2007, nearly 50% of which have appeared in the top 10 most influential journals. They collaborate with research teams in more than 20 countries.

The teams have filed a substantial number of patents—186 over the past 10 years—with two-thirds still active. Technological teams have a particularly high patent retention rate, with 74% still active. According to the International Patent Classification (IPC), the OncoBio and OncoSTIM teams share 55 IPC codes.

Professor Pierre Soubeyran is the coordinator of the Oncosphère project for Bordeaux and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

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The Biological and medical sciences (SBM) research department includes around twenty research teams that are internationally recognized for their expertise and scientific output in the field of fundamental and medical infectious microbiology. This community, composed of around sixty researchers and teacher-researchers, is spread across the UMR MFP, BRIC (BaRITOn), IBGC, ImmunoConcEpT, MRGM, and LAMC.

Beyond the SBM Department, the Bordeaux microbiology community, rich in its diversity, is also represented in four other departments at the University of Bordeaux (SE, STS, SMR, SP) and spans various disciplinary fields, including infectious microbiology, synthetic biology, environmental microbiology, biotechnological microbiology, and structural microbiology.

In order to bring this community together on strong foundations, we have been organizing an annual Microbiology Day (MicrobioDay) since 2020 to foster and strengthen interactions.

Driven by the SBM Department, which funded its website, the community has since grown into MicroBio-NA, encompassing microbiologists across the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. To date, it includes 250 researchers and teacher-researchers from the universities of Bordeaux, Poitiers, Limoges, La Rochelle, and Pau.

The SBM Department is home to a large and dynamic community of around one hundred researchers who are deeply involved in university teaching and internationally recognized for their expertise and scientific output in the field of metabolism. Notably, the department hosts a unique concentration of experts in energy metabolism, well known at both national and international levels.

The remarkable diversity of skills, approaches and areas of expertise within this community explains its geographical spread across the different research units of the SBM Department. Their collective expertise ranges from the metabolic characterization of unicellular organisms (bacteria, yeast, trypanosomes) to multisystem organisms such as plants, animals, and humans.

Beyond advancing knowledge and deepening our understanding of living systems, the community's work contributes to the development of diagnostic and therapeutic tools for numerous diseases including cancer, infectious, neurodegenerative, cardiovascular and liver diseases, as well as obesity and aging.

In recent years, the SBM Department’s Metabolism Community has launched several initiatives involving other university departments (STS, SE, Neurocampus), such as organizing scientific conferences (MetaBoDay, Metabolism and Cancer Congress) and participating in major research programs.

This community is also strongly supported by the emergence of new technological platforms, such as the Metabolic Analysis Service (SAM), complemented by bioinformatics services and Cellomet, a service company managed by the university’s private branch (Adera SAS), which conducts metabolic, multi-omics, and bioenergetics studies for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and academic sectors.