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News 23 October 2024

Thesis award: a biosynthetic pathway for the anticancer drug Etoposide

On 16 October, the third IFPEN-ANRT thesis prize was awarded to Jennifer Perrin for her thesis in the field of life and health sciences entitled “Approches d'ingénierie métabolique en levure pour la sécurisation de la production de l'anticancéreux Etoposide en Région Centre-Val de Loire” (Yeast metabolic engineering approaches to secure the production of the anticancer drug Etoposide in the Centre-Val de Loire region), defended on 31 January 2023 at Tours University. This thesis was conducted within the framework of a CIFRE agreement signed with the SME Axyntis. The company, the award winner and her thesis supervisors explain the significance of this research.

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Fundamental Research
News 23 October 2024

From the control of a pollution remediation system to that of a wind turbine via random set learning

As part of the drive to develop more environmentally-friendly mobility solutions, PhD research conducted at IFPEN resulted in a methodology to estimate control parameters in a urea injection-based pollution control system for vehicles (figure 1), where pollutant gas emission standards must be strictly respected [1,2,3]. This methodology was then extended to two other applications in the field of wind turbine control and simulation.

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