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On April 9, 2015, François Houllier, Chairman and CEO of Inra, inaugurated on the site of Saint-Martin-du-Touch in Toulouse, the renovated buildings of TOXALIM in the presence of Pascal Mailhos, Prefect of Haute-Garonne and the Midi-Pyrenees region, Jean Tzakzuk, President of Research and Higher Education Committee of the Midi-Pyrenees Regional Council and François Chollet, Vice President of Toulouse Metropole. Michèee Marin, President of Inra's Toulouse-Midi Pyrénées Research Centre and Stephanie Brehin, Director of Support Services, were on their side. Over 200 guests, both from outside and internal Toxalim staff attended this milestone event of our unit's lifetime.

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• After more than two years of work, the almost total renovation of Toxalim, Inra's Reseach Centre in Food Toxicology, has achieved its objectives: increase Toxalim's scientific visibility by acquiring completely renovated and efficient research premises, innovative equipment and high technology platforms with the help of the State, local authorities and Europe.

• Toxalim received a total funding of € 4.364 million under the State-Region Project Contract 2007-2013 with a 20.62% share of Inra, 47.23% from the Midi-Pyrénées Region, 11.53% of ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) and 20.62% of Toulouse Metropole.

• This funding enabled the rehabilitation of 4000m² premises including the creation of 600 m2 of laboratories and offices from unused surfaces and the purchase of equipment such as a mass spectrometer for metabolomics analysis, a confocal microscope (optical microscope that produces images of very low field depths) for cellular imaging and instruments to identify and quantify gene expression.