The mission of this service consists in helping the R&D staff in the search for scientific information, internal and published in the literature.

This service relies on a scientific library (books and periodicals) as well as specific data bases (chemistry, biology, pharmacology, R&D, buisness regulations…)

In the perimeter considered, it does not appear indispensable to possess central data processing; it would be rather desirable to work on leasing, to use a server hosting service and an external supplier for the management of the group and its applications (wages, purchases…). This requires a strong internal expertise, capable of controlling the quality of the services. On the other hand the scientific data processing, as well as the bio-computing, requires a deep knowledge of the services, the structures and activities, and a good experience of the site, capable moreover of assuring processing assistance of quality, which must exist.

The patent service has as its objective, to protect the inventions coming from the research as well as from the development (processes, new therapeutic applications, formulations…) and possibly to do the documentary information retrieval and to elaborate or give advice on the contracts.

It has as its main mission to write the requests for patents, deposit them in France and Internationally, to conduct the procedures of obtaining them, and to evaluate the liberties of exploitation. The anti-infectious patents are currently managed internally.

This service supplies the necessary international regulatory recommendations to the development of the products (BPL, BPF, BPC), as well as obtaining the appropriate approvals from the authorities for putting them on the market. It is heavily involved in the life cycle of the products commercialisation.

In the structure envisaged this service should exist in five areas:

- development (EDC to phase III)

- regulatory management of the products commercialsied (by the individual case or a range of products would be ceded)

- monitoring drug side effects and epidemiology

- regulatory affairs applied to Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) quality assurance

Storage of the documents of pre-clinical and clinical research and the registration files. Preparation and publication of the registration files: in addition, and within the context of the Nereïs project, a significant part of the work will be done in collaboration with external enterprises, public or private. Such a strategy results in the development of multiple contracts, and must therefore rely on a legal service and a service of significant contracts.