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The past two years have been a fruitful collaboration between our laboratory and the European Innovation Center from Shimadzu.A joint study for early detection of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers using mass spectrometry opens the door to new research advances. We...

This week, the M2 - DMCC students had the opportunity to visit our platform within the IRMB, accompanied by Professor Hirtz. We are always happy to show our platform to people interested in research!

Meet our team: a combination of engineers, technicians and PhD students. All our individual skills and knowledge combined makes our platform so much more interesting!

We are pleased to share with you the latest poster from our PhD student Marie-Laure PONS on the analysis of the synucleins by LC-MRM in biological fluids (plasma, CSF and saliva) in the context of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease.

Latest news! Our new Simoa HD-X from Quanterix has arrived to replace our previous model HD-1. This model is a fully automated Simoa bead-based immunoassay platform and delivers major productivity improvements, greater user flexibility, unparalleled sensitivity, and...

Thanks to LCGC to share the work done by our team on quantification of tau and ptau by LC-MS/MS for Alzheimer's disease ! Jerome VIALARET, Christophe HIRTZ, Sylvain LEHMANN, Laura FICHTER More information :...

Shimadzu: "Even during that pandemic situation, we continue to develop application, instrument solution for solving analytical problems with our partners accross Europe!" Our PlasmaBoost project (beta amyloid in blood) and the thesis of Marie-Laure PONS (synuclein...

Celebrate women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality. #ChooseToChallenge With a special shoutout to the women in our team : Aurore ATTINA, Laura FICHTER, Nelly GINESTET, Jana KINDERMANS, Lisa MORICHON et Marie-Laure PONS. #IWD2021...

We are happy to announce a new project financed by the INCa in the framework of the Montpellier-based partnership* SMART: RNA methylation and FTO activity steer colorectal cancer cell phenotype Fat mass and Obesity-associated protein (FTO), a nuclear m6A demethylase,...

The PPC is happy to announce that we are strengthening our team with two new flemish students: Guillaume Le Berre and Ryan Trouvé. Both are students at HOWEST University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen) and are doing an internship during 4 months, at...

Axelle Vinot is doing an 8-week internship with us as part of her BTS with option in biotechnology. She will carry out assays on the Tau protein, an essential biomarker in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, particularly in mass spectrometry.

Étienne Mondesert is a medical biology intern at the Montpellier University Hospital, doing a Master 2 internship at our platform. His work focuses on mass spectrometry quantification and clinical evaluation of a biomarker in the context of Parkinson disease.

For the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC), our assistant engineer Jana Kindermans made a scientific poster on the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease biomarker, namely plasma amyloid peptides. For the quantification of these plasma amyloid...

Recently, our PhD student Marie-Laure PONS gave a presentation for her the thesis follow up committee. After one year of doing research and experimenting, her topic is beginning to take shape: the development of an innovative multiplex and targeted mass spectrometry...

Very proud of the financial support of @IsiteMUSE for our new CoVIMOD project dealing with an exhaustive analysis of the modification landscape of viral and cellular RNAs in SARS-CoV2 infection and the study of their functional impact on virus replication and cell...

Interested in using our numerous skills and techniques to analyse your samples? This workflow explains exactly how we work. For more information, check our website ppc-montpellier.com or contact us directly! #massspectrometry #proteomic #epitranscriptomics

We would like to introduce Pablo Mohaupt, a new PhD student who joins our team. As part of MIRIADE.eu, Pablo will work on novel ideas and methods contributing to biomarker discovery in neurodegenerative diseases. His main focus is on mass spectrometric analytical...

Thanks to the latest ELLA system, we are joining the fight against the COVID-19 virus for the Immuno-monitoring of patients. In partnership with the virology department, the PPC participates in the evaluation of the worsening clinical condition of patients in order to...

This Friday, February 28th, Professor Sylvain Lehmann and our PhD student Marie-Laure Pons were present at the teachers’ symposium "From Research to Clinic, Encounter on Neuroscience" at the New Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier. They had the opportunity to present...

Last week we were happy to welcome two new interns Salomé and Michelle, who will be part of our team for the upcoming time. Salomé Coppens is a M2 BIOTIN student. She will stay six months to work the development of a method of detection and localization of RNA...

Dr. Syrine Dimassi, graduated with a PhD in materials chemistry and more specifically in the field of biopolymers and medical devices, joined our team a few months ago as a Temporary Teaching and Research Associate. She will develop a multiplex and targeted mass...

Are you interested measuring the amount of monoclonal antibodies in human serum? We offer you nSmol: a sample preparation allowing to decrease the sample complexity before LC/MS quantitation of monoclonal antibodies. This method used a limited sample volume (5µL) and...

Congratulations to our technical manager Jérôme Vialaret for his PhD in science entitled "Development and validation of innovative proteomic methods for clinical biochemistry applications"!

During the IRMB open doors on November 20, we had the opportunity to hear from Mrs Emilie BARDE (Director of Research and Innovation at the CHU de Montpellier), Mr Jacques MERCIER (Vise-President of Research at the Université de Montpellier) and Mr Jacques CAVAILLE...

Our first year doctoral student Marie-Laure Pons, in collaboration with Shimadzu Corporation, had the opportunity to present her thesis research project "mass spectrometry detection of synucleins and its isoformes in blood and CSF of patients with neurodegenerative...

This Wednesday May 22nd, Jérôme Vialaret, our mass spectrometry engineer, was present to explain the automation of biological sample preparation with AssayMap Bravo at the ELRIGfr Congress (OMICS, DIAGNOSTIC & LAB AUTOMATION) in Montpellier. We would like to thank...

Marie-Laure Pons has join our team in order to perform a CIFRE PhD in collaboration with the SHIMADZU company. Her project is on the devolpment of innovative approaches by mass spectrometry to detect and quantify biomarkers of interest in neurodegenerative diseases...

Some of you may have recognized the SHIMADZU CORPORATION scotch! Thanks a lot to those who helped us opening this big box. We are proud to present our new Maldi-Tof: the AXIMA Assurance! Stay tuned, you will soon read more about the project for this mass spectrometer.

Two weeks ago we received a huge parcel! But what was inside? A big fridge? A coffee machine? There are some hidden clues in the images...

Jana Kindermans joined our team a few weeks ago. As a student in the Flemish province of Howest, her internship at the end of her bachelor's degree (4 months) focuses on the FoxIgA project (Analysis of glycosylation abnormalities in the renal impairment of Rheumatoid...

At the beginning of February a new trainee engineer joins the platform: Laura Fichter for a Master 2 internship until the end of July. She will work on a project aiming at quantifying the Tau protein in neurodegenerative diseases, by mass spectrometry with our...