In a world that must undergo a metamorphosis to become sustainable for future generations, the INSA Lyon engineer in Biotechnologies and Bioinformatics is a humanist engineer, at the service of the common good, who is committed to and acts with determination on behalf of human health and ecosystems.

Depending on the focus of his or her training, he or she will be able to work in a variety of professional situations.

• As a bioprocess engineer, he or she could produce a vaccine or biomedicine, extract a bioactive compound or clean up environmental pollution through bacterial activity.
• As an engineer in biological engineering and digital tools, he or she will be able to detect contaminants with a biosensor, discover targets for a drug, search for the biological signature of a disease or environmental exposure, or biologically protect crops from pests.
• As a toxicology and ecotoxicology engineer, he or she will be able to assess the toxicity of a chemical substance and its impact on ecosystems.
• As a biomodeler, he or she will be able to simulate the functioning of an organ, the effect of a drug, the dynamics of a population or the spread of an epidemic.
• As a data scientist with expertise in biological data, he or she can develop artificial intelligence methods for analyzing biological or medical images, or automatically analyze genomes for clinical or forensic purposes.