Entrepreneurship

We want to create new standards for medical diagnostics by becoming major actors in the field of health, in order to bring down the empirical antibiotic treatment era.

Our Work

The birth of DIANE was possible thanks to a motivated, close-knit and dynamic team of 10 hardworking students from different fields of study (i.e law (Paris Sud), biology (Sup ‘Biotech), chemistry (Chimie ParisTech, ENS Cachan), and physics (ESPCI)).
Our main asset was the diversity of knowledge distributed amongst the team members: but we’re only students, and as such, we lack expertise. Thus, we have involved experts from diverse fields to help us build our project : Ms. Sylvie Renard Dubois, Dr Marcel Hollenstein, Dr Lebeaux, Dr Clauteaux, Ms. Couture and others, in order to learn from their experience and listen carefully to their advices. Our project relies on a strong bond between all the members of our team, and on mutual support. We have organized our working time by making sure we could all fully understand every aspect of the project, by reporting back to others during bi-weekly meetings. Those meetings helped us develop autonomous behaviors, by including the opinions of others on all the subjects.

Moreover, we have worked with short iterations, and by creating numerous milestones along the way. This working method, called Agile method (learn start up method) helped us minimize the risk of failure by involving as much customers and experts in our domain, to help us find solutions and answers to hypotheses we claimed, and ensure that we can get maximum reactivity on any oncoming problem. We kept in touch with reality by making little steps forward every day. We wanted to make sure that we would create a product that would stand up to the expectations of our market. In order to enforce this method in our team, at the end of each development phase, we have reviewed our strengths and weaknesses and made sure that we would get better at each new phase. This working mindset has helped us consolidate our project, by compensating our flaws with new solutions.