Labex

Laboratories of Excellence (LabEx) were launched in 2011 and 2012 as part of the Investments for the Future, and extended from 2020 to 2024. There are 4 LabExs located within the perimeter of Université Côte d'Azur.

The research program SIGNALIFE has been selected by the French Ministry of Research and Education during the highly competitive Labex “Laboratoire d’Excellence” call, within the framework of the governmental initiative “Investments for the Future” in 2011. It is part of the UCA^JEDI program awarded to Université Côte d’Azur.
SIGNALIFE aims at developing a research network between six leading academic research institutes in Nice. This project thus contributes to establishing an interactive network of regional institutes in the life sciences, focused on the study of signaling pathways in animal and plants, essential to our understanding of human health and fundamental biological processes. The research program is organized into 5 main scientific themes around signaling:

• Cellular Architecture
• Cell Plasticity
• Stress Signaling
• Aging and Disease Progression
• New Principles

LabEx ICST comprises 16 teams from 5 research units: Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IPMC, Sophia Antipolis), Laboratoire de Physio-Médecine Moléculaire (LP2M, Nice), Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle (IGF, Montpellier), Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences (GIN), Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS, Grenoble) and Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire (PhyCell, Villeneuve d'Asq).
The overall ambition of ICST is to become a world-wide recognized cluster in ion channel studies carrying out research and innovation at the interface of biology and medicine.

Research teams
LabEx ICST comprises 16 équipes from 5 research units: Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IPMC, Sophia Antipolis), Laboratoire de Physio-Médecine Moléculaire (LP2M, Nice), Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle (IGF, Montpellier), Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences (GIN), Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS, Grenoble) and Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire (PhyCell, Villeneuve d'Asq).

Within the SophiaTech Campus, integrated in the first European techno-park, Labex UCN@Sophia offers, to researchers, students and industrial companies, a unique platform of international outreach for research, training and innovation on User-Centric Networks.
Around a common vision which positions the user at the center of the network, Labex UCN@Sophia concentrates the knowledge and skills of 120 IT and telecommunications researchers to invent next generation network services: smart data searching, reliable and effective distributed applications, high performance and energy-efficient wired or wireless infrastructures as well as a network ensuring the safety and the privacy of data.
The Labex UCN@Sophia research program accompanies the emergence of the digital society. It is conducted in response to a massive growth in needs (connected citizens), number of connected devices (Internet of Objects) and of the volume of the available data (Big Data) which require a new generation of networks (5G) and a genuine social reflection.
The Labex UCN@Sophia is part of the UCA^JEDI of Université Côte d'Azur, linked to Networks, Information and Digital Society Academy of Excellence.

GaNeXT is a network of French laboratories working on a common theme, element III nitrides (AlInGaN) whose emblematic representative is GaN. Nitrides are forbidden broadband semiconductors whose intrinsic properties predispose them for emission in the visible / UV region and for electronic components working at high temperature, high frequency and in harsh environments.
GaNeX’s activity is organized around 6 thematic areas:

• LEDs and lighting
• Advanced photonics
• Power electronics
• High frequency electronics
• Sensors
• Energy harvesting and photovoltaics
• Materials, technology and fundamental research 

In addition, an education component completes these activities.