The board of directors of the Institut Cochin is composed by the director and vice-director of the Institute, the general secretary and the directors and vice-directors of the scientific departments. In addition, the heads of technology transfer and PhD Committee are systematically invited to the board meetings, as well as delegates from the administrative authorities (INSERM, CNRS, Paris Descartes University).
The board of directors is intended to
Board meetings are organized on a monthly basis.
The Institute committee is composed by the members of the board of directors, and by delegates from all the staff categories: permanent scientists/University teachers/ clinicians, post-doc fellows, research assistants with a permanent or contract position, PhD students.
The Institute committee is intended to discuss about working and living conditions in the Institute, and, accordingly, to address recommendations to the direction of the Institute in order to optimize these conditions.
The Institute committee meets twice a year, in place of the corresponding board meetings.
Over one hundred PhD students, in addition to about 50 Master students, are working in the Institut Cochin where they get a high quality research education. The PhD committee is in charge of a number of actions, aiming at the optimization of working conditions of all PhD and Master students:
The PhD Committee actively collaborates with the association of “Young Scientists from the Institut Cochin” namely, JeCCo, as well as with other partners such as Charities, Universities and national biotech incubators (including Paris-Biotech Santé, located on the Cochin campus).
In addition, individual survey of post-doc fellows will be set up to provide them with the latest informations about fundings, employment and training offers and new regulations or legislation: A dedicated scientist in the PhD committee is in charge of this survey.
A technology transfer committee has been created in the Institute in 2007 to assist the Institute's scientists: it is composed of a dozen of team leaders of the Institute who have personally experienced some technology transfer processes of their results.
The major objectives of the committee are: