Institut Imagine

In a building designed by Bernard Valéro and Jean Nouvel on the campus of the Necker-Enfants malades AP-HP hospital, Imagine is the first center for research, care and teaching on genetic diseases. With the mission of understanding and curing them, the Institute brings together 1000 of the best doctors, researchers and healthcare personnel in an architecture that creates synergies. It is this unprecedented continuum of expertise, combined with proximity to patients, that allows Imagine to make discoveries for the patients. The approximately 9,000 genetic diseases that have been identified affect 35 million patients in Europe, and nearly 3 million in France, where 30,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Nearly 60% of the children received in consultation leave without a genetic diagnosis and 90% of genetic diseases have no cure. Faced with this major public health issue, the challenge is twofold: to diagnose and cure.