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Long a boring cash-cow for a pharmaceutical industry in search of highly profitable blockbusters, vaccines experienced a spectacular return to favour with the Covid-19 pandemic. The speed of development of VOC-2 SARS vaccines has been astonishing, with the first products becoming available less tha…

Valeo and École polytechnique engineering school announce they have renewed their research and innovation partnership for two years, with the aim of supporting innovative projects in the field of new low-carbon mobility. These projects will be eligible to take part in the X-CORP program for busines…

On December 1, 2025, École Polytechnique welcomed a ministerial delegation from the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire for discussions focusing on strengthening academic and scientific collaborations between École Polytechnique and the Félix Houphouët-Boigny National Polytechnic Institute. During their visi…

Christophe Josserand, CNRS researcher and professor at École Polytechnique, and Qiang Du, Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, spent three months as visiting professors at the respective other institution in the United States and France. As they crossed paths at Éc…

Of the eight start-ups incubated at École Polytechnique and present at VivaTech 2025, five have been selected for the Tech for Change 2025 program, which recognizes start-ups helping to address major contemporary environmental and societal challenges. Six École Polytechnique-incubated start-ups fea…

A dedicated Welcome Desk for international students and scientists (BasiX) provides support and assistance to international students and scientists who join École Polytechnique. The BasiX department offers help with formalities linked to the arrival in France (residence permit, medical insurance, o…

As part of the École Polytechnique’s international academic exchange program, more than sixty students from thirty excellent partner institutions across the globe have joined l’X for the start of the 2024 academic year. Students will get the opportunity to discover the French academic and scientifi…

With more than 100 nationalities on campus, 40% international students, and 40% international professors and researchers, École Polytechnique is highly internationalized. This strong international framework is a result of the School’s policies aimed at attracting and training talents from around th…

The role of the actin filaments as the skeleton of the cell is very well identified, but its implementation has so far been unclear. It is the veil of this mystery that Alexis Gautreau, CNRS Research Director at the Laboratory of Structural Biology of the Cell (BIOC)* and professor at the École pol…

Credits: Antoine Desjardins, artist, professor at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs - EnsAD and researcher at EnsadlabThe first edition of "Useful Fictions", the summer school of the arts & sciences Chair, allowed 18 international students, supervised by some fifteen artists, scientists a…

The extinction of fish populations due to overexploitation is a current problem that stems in particular from the lack of models capable of simulating the dynamics of fishing boats. This is what José Moran and Antoine Fosset, young researchers at the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*), Michael Benz…

Some fluorescent molecules used to produce microscopic images of biological processes cause the cells into which they are introduced to stiffen. This phenomenon has just been demonstrated and quantified by a collaboration involving the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*). He is featured on the cover…

Studying Retroactions between society and biodiversity, analysing the evolution of small bacteria population and a phylogenetic approah of cancer: these are the new themes handled by the Chair « Modélisation mathématique et biodiversité ». thanks to its international influence at the in…

In early 2024, Charles Baroud, professor and researcher at the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*), was awarded an ERC Advanced Grants for his Melcart project. Acronym for Mechanical Characterization and Stimulation of Microtissues, this research project aims to develop technologies and knowledge ar…

At the 2026 ‘AI for Impact’ Spring School, École Polytechnique’s ‘Data Science & Industrial Processes’ Chair is reaffirming its role as a bridge between cutting-edge research and the business world. By bringing together students, scientists and businesses from around the world in Morocco, the event…