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Overview

The study of biological systems now offers the ambition of creating artificial forms of living systems.

The EnLife Major Programme, or Engineering Life, will focus on a detailed understanding of the mechanisms that characterise living systems. The team will then focus on the control and engineering of these systems.

The aim? To create new artificial biological systems whose properties can be chosen: whether synthetic cells, artificial tissues and organoids, or other forms inspired by living systems.


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Axis 1: Controlling and programming biological living matter

Axis 2: Emergence of spatial and temporal organization in living matter

Axis 3: Information processing and dynamics of biological active matter

Axis 4: Driving evolution within living systems

Ours news

  • Call for Collaborative seed projects 2025

    EnLife announces the launch of its new call for collaborative seed projects!

  • Permanent fundings

    EnLife offers permanent co-financing

  • Collaborative projects 2026 laureates

    On Thursday, 18 February 2026, applicants for the collaborative seed project call presented their projects to a jury and the EnLife community. Discover the six projects supported by EnLife!

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The Engineering Life research program is conducted as part of a partnership between member institutions and associate members of Université PSL: Institut Curie, ESPCI Paris - PSL,  École normale supérieure - PSL, Collège de France et Chimie Paris - PSL.