Our vision of innovation

Innovation, a priority for bioMérieux

From the start, bioMérieux has invested in sectors where our expertise differentiates us and generates real added value. This has enabled us to become leaders in several areas: clinical microbiology, the syndromic diagnosis of infectious diseases, and industrial microbiological control.

Our teams are working to develop diagnostic tests to maintain this standard of excellence and provide solutions to address new public health challenges – for example, the emergence of new infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, the fight against sepsis, microbiological quality control in agri-food and cosmetic products, as well as sterility testing for pharmaceutical products – with two priority objectives:

• Increasing the medical value of diagnostics with tests that support decision making and generate clinical value for physicians by identifying and characterizing disease agents with greater precision;
• Providing faster, more reliable results to improve health outcomes for patients and to protect consumer safety.

Our core focus: the patient and the consumer

In the clinical and the industrial fields, innovation for bioMérieux aims to provide laboratories with results as quickly as possible, everywhere in the world, to improve the health of patients and ensure the safety of consumers.

What sets us apart is our holistic approach to diagnostics and our portfolio of complementary solutions. As pure players of in vitro diagnostics, we develop solutions based on our expertise in its three key areas: microbiology, molecular biology and immunoassays.

For clinical applications, the combination of these three types of expertise makes it possible to provide high medical-value solutions at the best cost. Take the case of sepsis, where every minute counts when it comes to diagnosing the infection and determining the response by the host, i.e., the patient. With our highly diverse, complementary product offering, we can give healthcare professionals the essential information they need to make the appropriate medical decision as quickly as possible and improve the patient’s health.

Our research project choices are guided by paying attention to our customers’ needs as well as our technology watch and technical watch. In the face of a revolution in diagnostics using information technology, we are intensifying our research in the fields of genomic sequencing, ultra-fast microbiology and smart data.