Teams built around patients
Imagine’s strength is bringing research teams, reference centers and clinical departments together around patients with genetic diseases to provide them with better care. The synergy created from having doctors’ and researchers’ expertise and skills in one place inspires our teams to never give up, to form promising collaborations, and to innovate without stopping.
Research
Care
- Clinical research department
- 8 affiliated clinical units
- 31 affiliated reference centers for rare diseases
- 2 clinical investigation centers
Support teams in support of research and care
Under the leadership of Laure Boquet, General Delegate, the Imagine Institute’s support teams’ mission is to help research and care teams, and provide support for the Institute’s technological platforms on a daily basis.
Development and international philanthropy
The department plans and leads fundraising operations to accelerate discoveries and their applications through funding for new equipment and strategic recruitments. It also develops stakeholders’ and the general public’s awareness of the Institute.
Director of development and international philanthropy: Laurent Mellier
Communication
Director of communication: Marie de Bazelaire
Innovation, technology transfer and clinical research
The department includes:
- The innovation and technology transfer department, which identifies medical advances, helps to implement patents and licenses, and identifies potential industrial partners for research and innovative programs.
- The clinical research department, which facilitates and structures the implementation of clinical research projects in close collaboration with clinical research centers and the clinical research unit.
Director: Hélène Chautard
Human Resources
The department recruits and manages employees of the Imagine Foundation, coordinates the management of human resources with those of our institutional partners.
Director : Anne VISEUR
Legal department
The department advises and supports the Institute in legal matters, studies and analyzes legislation, regulations, legal precedents and the law.
Head: Nathalie Wuylens
Finances
The finance department manages the Institute’s budgets, monitors and manages common expenses of the building, and, if necessary, those of the labs and core facilities.
Director: Séverine Delalande
IT
The IT department helps teams to use and secure their computer data and ensures that the servers, network and the audiovisual system in the auditorium work correctly.
Head: Jérôme Flatot
Hygiene, Safety and Environment
The department ensures compliance with the current hygiene and safety regulations, develops a culture of standards, fosters dynamic sustainable development and attends to quality procedures.
Head: Anne-Marie Laurencine
Internal departments
The department ensures the proper functioning of the warehouse and laundry, and organizes the supply of nitrogen. It coordinates the proper management of the equipment and shared spaces.
Head: Cécile Bureau
Operations department
The department maintains the infrastructure and the building and coordinates operations of technical service providers.
Head: Stéphane Paillet
Education and Society programs coordinator
Coordination of education and training programs (MD-PhD, International PhD, Half-time research for MDs, MD-M2, 4th year PhD thesis, Imagine Thesis Award, Tutoring program, Science dissemination fellowships), and animation of Human and Social Sciences and societal programs aimed at improving the lives of rare genetic disease patients and their families.
Maura SAMARANI
maura.samarani@institutimagine.org
Conference center
The conference center is at the heart of the Institute’s scientific life as it hosts most of the conferences, seminars and trainings.
It can also be privatized by sponsors and client partners for scientific or charitable events.
For further information on the conference center
Imagine Foundation's WOMEN-MEN equality index
Pursuant to the Professional Future Act of September 5, 2018, Imagine publishes the results of its gender equality index within the Imagine Foundation.
This index evaluates the professional equality between women and men within companies in the form of an overall score out of 100 points, which each company calculates from four indicators. Below the threshold of 75 points, the company must define and implement corrective measures within three years.
The gender equality index at the Imagine Foundation is 84 points out of 100. Find here the details by indicator:
- Pay gap: 39/40
- Individual salary increase gap: 35/35
- Percentage of employees receiving a raise after returning from maternity leave: 0/15
- Number of employees of the under-represented gender among the 10 highest earners: 10/10
"We are satisfied with this result, which is up two points this year. We are continuing our commitment and actions to guarantee professional equality between women and men and to promote diversity and professional mix. With this in mind, we have launched an action plan dedicated to gender parity and professional equality at the end of 2021", notes Laure Boquet, General Delegate of the Imagine Foundation.
Parity and professional equality
Institut Imagine is committed to promoting parity and professional equality, with a dedicated action plan and two parity and professional equality advisors to support management in carrying out these actions.
In this context, Institut Imagine has set out its commitment in a Charter that promotes
- Equality in recruitment, remuneration, access to training and career development
- Equal access to positions of responsibility and promotion
- Equal participation of women and men in governance bodies
- A better balance between professional and personal life
- Support for parenthood
- Prevention of sexual violence, harassment and sexist behavior
Parity and professional equality
Institut Imagine is committed to promoting parity and professional equality, with a dedicated action plan and two parity and professional equality advisors to support management in carrying out these actions.
In this context, the Imagine Institute displays demonstrate its commitment through a Charter which promotes:
- Equality in recruitment, compensation, training and career development
- Fair access to positions of responsibility and promotions
- Equitable participation of women and men in governance bodies
- A better balance between working and personal lives.
- Parenthood support
- Prevention against sexual violence, harassment and sexist acts
