The SOLEIL synchrotron is organising, with the next annual SOLEIL Users' Meeting (18-19 January 2012) gathering about 350 international scientists each year, a satellite workshop entitled: "Biology and medicine: from fundamental research to diagnosis".

The workshop aims to bring together medical doctors, bio-physicists/-chemists, structural and cell biologists as well as synchrotron scientists and will be held at SOLEIL on January 16-17, 2012 just before the 7^th SOLEIL Users' Meeting.

The participants in biology will highlight recent studies that combine complementary methods in order to understand the complexity of living organisms and their functional mechanisms, from atomic resolution macromolecular structures to cell and tissue imaging.
In medicine, synchrotron radiation related techniques are now used in cutting edge investigations for diagnosis and fundamental understandings of diseases. Recent advances in medical applications of SOLEIL synchrotron radiation related techniques to the study of various diseases such as urolithiasis, liver pathologies or endocarditis will be presented.