Aurélie Mahalatchimy and a team of researchers in the humanities, social sciences and biomedical sciences have obtained funding from the French National Research Agency for a 4-year project to study the processes of fragmentation and defragmentation of European law applicable to innovations.
biomedical (mainly gene therapy, regenerative medicine and nanomedicine).
The aims of the project are to explore and explain these legal processes and to decipher their developments over time in the field of European biomedical innovation law. While building on existing work devoted to the legal framework of biomedical innovations, the temporality of law and the phenomenon of fragmentation in law, the I-Biolex project will use approaches which
comparative/comparative and interdisciplinary, and will combine a theoretical and conceptual scope with a practical dimension of modelling decision-making processes in order to determine how the law on biomedical innovations can meet the needs of patients.
different societal objectives.

The I-Biolex project team involves 5 French teams attached to laboratories at the University of Aix-Marseille:
- At the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales et Communautaires (CERIC, UMR 7318 International, Comparative and European Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science): Estelle Brosset (Professor of public law); Aurélie Mahalatchimy (CNRS Research Fellow, Law); Sandrine Maljean-Dubois (CNRS Research Director, Law); Martine Perron (CNRS Research Engineer, Communication and promotion), Nathalie Rubio (Professor of public law), Pascal Gauttier (Research Project Manager).
- At the Institut Louis Favoreu- Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Justice Constitutionnelle (ILF-GERJC, UMR 7318 International, Comparative and European Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science): Laurence Gay (CNRS Research Fellow, Law); Xavier Magnon (Professor of Public Law).
- At Mesopolhis (formerly Laboratoire méditerranéen de sociologie (LAMES UMR 7305, Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme): Marc Bernardot (Professor of Sociology).
- At the Marseille Cancer Research Centre (CRCM): Christian Chabannon, (Professor of Cell Biology).

- At the Centre for Cardiovascular and Nutrition Research (C2VN, Faculty of Pharmacy): Florence Sabatier (Professor of Haematology and Biotherapies).
To these can be added :
- 2 British laboratories at Oxford University (Michael Morrisson, Research Fellow in Science and technology Studies, HeLEX) and Queen's University Belfast (Mark Flear, Reader in law)
- 1 laboratory at Monash University in Australia (John Gardner, Senior Lecturer in Sociology).

The Scientific Advisory Committee is made up of four people renowned for their expertise in the areas covered by the project: Alex Faulkner (Sociology/STS, University of Sussex), Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag (Law, Université Toulouse III- Inserm), Virginie
Tournay (Sciences Po CEVIPOF) and Andrew Webster (Sociology/STS, University of York).