The INRAE research unit of Excellence in Microbiome Analysis

Pioneers in decoding the second human genome: the microbiome.

High-resolution microbiome analysis for accurate and actionable insights.

A unique ecosystem of experts and technologies for tailor-made projects.

At the heart of Le French Gut: mapping the microbiome of a nation.

From science to society: advancing microbiome knowledge for global health.

Accelerating microbiome knowledge to improve global health

A certified industrial process

Quality requirement for industrial clinical studies

Validated & standardized protocols (IHMS coordinator)

Secure and automatized high-throughput pipelines

Internal R&D to improve performance

Continuous improvement to remain competitive

Research taxe credit agreement

Partners feedback

  • « I have had the opportunity to work with MGP on several occasions and in several settings. The scientific challenge is always raised while carefully taking into account the orientation desired by the industrialist. Our exchanges are always enriching and filled with good humour, which doesn’t spoil anything ! »

     

    ROQUETTE

    Clémentine Thabuis, Nutrition & Health Research Scientist at ROQUETTE

  • « MGP is a good partner and the interlocutors conduct themselves with good professionalism, while showing flexibility to our needs. »

     

    SANOFI

    Marco Perez, Global Medical Affairs | Digestive Health | Consumer Healthcare at SANOFI

  • « The technologies and skills developed by MGP and BIOASTER are very complementary.

    This complementarity allows us to work in synergy, which proves to be profitable both in bipartite MGP-BIOASTER projects and in multipartite projects with industrial or academic partners. »

    BIOASTER

    Vincent Thomas, Head of Microbiome Program at BIOASTER

  • « I have had the opportunity to work with MGP on several occasions and in several settings. The scientific challenge is always raised while carefully taking into account the orientation desired by the industrialist. Our exchanges are always enriching and filled with good humour, which doesn’t spoil anything ! »

     

    ROQUETTE

    Clémentine Thabuis, Nutrition & Health Research Scientist at ROQUETTE

  • « MGP is a good partner and the interlocutors conduct themselves with good professionalism, while showing flexibility to our needs. »

     

    SANOFI

    Marco Perez, Global Medical Affairs | Digestive Health | Consumer Healthcare at SANOFI

  • « The technologies and skills developed by MGP and BIOASTER are very complementary.

    This complementarity allows us to work in synergy, which proves to be profitable both in bipartite MGP-BIOASTER projects and in multipartite projects with industrial or academic partners. »

    BIOASTER

    Vincent Thomas, Head of Microbiome Program at BIOASTER

3 innovative offers

A personalized and open partnership

The protocols and procedures implemented at MGP are based on proven and published know-how and are constantly kept at the cutting edge of technology

In collaboration with industries, academics and clinics, MGP conceives and implements projects tailored to the partners’ needs:

– Consortia on research shared between different manufacturers on themes of general interest

– Donation via the Microbiome Foundation with the mention INRAE

– B2B collaboration with two types of partnership:

Our strengths

  • A strong expertise in Metagenomic data analysis

    MetaGenoPolis’ expertise in bioinformatics and statistics is recognized in the international scientific community. Metagenomics analysis of multivariate and heterogeneous datasets powered by our informatic and biostatistic team. Our scientists were the first to explore in depth the microbial genes of the human intestinal tract – and today, they conduct standardized high-throughput DNA metagenomics analyses for applications in human and animal health.

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  • If there is something to see, we’ll see it!

    MetaGenoPolis is a scientific excellence INRAE research unit in microbiome analysis. MetaGenoPolis offers end-to-end microbiome analysis services, including DNA extraction, library preparation, shotgun sequencing, quantitative and functional metagenomics, big data storage and computing facilities, bioinformatics, statistical analysis, and data interpretation – all under innovant scientific platforms, accompanied by the SOCA – Social Acceptability platform UCLy (Lyon Catholic University).

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  • Tailor-made research collaborations to create intellectual property

    MetaGenoPolis drives innovation by partnering with companies from the health, pharmaceutical, nutrition, and animal health industries. We offer to your organizations a chance to work with some of the foremost scientific experts in the microbiome field (KOL), facilitating unique R&D projects that aim to create market advantages and growth.

    MetaGenoPolis is labeled Carnot Qualiment and offers its scientific excellence to the service of innovation of industries. The Qualiment® network, labelled Carnot, is supported by INRAE and gathers laboratories and a technical center recognized for their scientific excellence and the quality of their research partnerships. They have transversal competences in human food, to propose to companies a complete research offer in the field for their innovation, improvement or repositioning projects.

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  • All the best french Microbiome expertises accessible to your company

    We belong to a large public INRAE ecosystem to give you the largest expertise in Microbiome: omics, vivo models, clinical data, national cohorts.

    We are a non-profit organization and this allows us to propose you the best price for the best quality (cumulative with research tax credits and other public grants).

    We continuously contribute to create successful start-ups (enterome, maat pharma and Novobiome).

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What's new

  • RECENT EVENT

    MetaGenoPolis was present at the JFHOD 2023. Our scientist Sébastien Fromentin presented our project Le French Gut.

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  • RECENT NEWS

    Le French Gut : Pilote phase successful !
    3000 participants registered in few days !
    To date : 16 700 participants registered
    Pilote phase recrutment completed with 3000 fecal samples received and passing control quality

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  • RECENT PUBLICATION

    Fan et al. 2023
    Gut microbiome and anorexia nervosa : multi-omics reveal gut microbiota alterations in women with anorexia nervosa, and FMT experiments can transfer an anorexia-associated phenotype to GF mice

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