The Carnot Prize for partnership-based research supporting the creation of startups was awarded to Thierry Rose and Sophie Goyard from the Institut Pasteur, which has been Carnot-certified since 2007, and to Vincent Poher from the startup BIOCELLIS, confirming the Institut Pasteur's entrepreneurial dynamism within the French biotech ecosystem. At the Rendez-vous Carnot event held on October 15 and 16, 2025, at the Lyon Centre des Congrès, this distinction rewarded a concrete project applying academic research.
The bioluminescence technology developed by the Institut Pasteur and licensed to Biocellis aims to revolutionize in vitro diagnostics by combining exceptional sensitivity (10 to 100 times greater than existing methods) with remarkable speed of execution: clinical results in 15 to 60 seconds, with minimal sample preparation.
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