The team
Ecocatalysis®: an innovation of Prof. Claude Grison
Ecocatalysis® is a unique technology, patented by Prof. Claude Grison, co-founder and scientific director of BIOINSPIR.
Prof. Claude Grison is the founder and director of the Bio-inspired Chemistry and Ecological Innovations Laboratory.
She is at the origin of more than thirty CNRS patents allowing the use of plants to progressively depollute degraded terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, but also to exploit the metallic elements that these plants have concentrated.
Her work has been awarded 10 scientific prizes including the Alexandre Joannides Prize of the Academy of Sciences 2016 and the CNRS Medal for Innovation 2014.
Prof. Claude Grison wins the European Inventor of the Year Award!
The European Patent Office revealed on June 21 its prize list: Prof. Claude Grison is the winner of the European Inventor Award 2022 in the category “Research”.
A passionate and demanding team
BIOINSPIR is fascinated by the power, complexity and technicality of the living world. From a scientific point of view, many plants have long been neglected or reserved for biologists. As chemists, we are amazed by their properties and their potential, previously unexploited.
We like to look for answers in places that humans have not traditionally explored, but which have been right in front of us for millennia. It is through in-depth, rigorous and scientific observation and analysis that we are able to create Ecocatalysts®.
At BIOINSPIR, each employee moves the lines of conventional chemistry by contributing to the creation of a new sector.
A winning collaboration with Technofounders
In 2020, Prof. Dr. Claude Grison joined forces with the venture builder Technofounders to found the company BioInspir and to industrially develop a sustainable chemistry.
The startup studio Technofounders is a major player in technology transfer in France. Its original model of executive co-founder alongside ambitious research teams allows the launch of young innovative companies based on cutting-edge work, and the continuation of research activities carried out by inventors in their laboratories.
Learn more about the Technofounders venture builder