A mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary team coor­di­nat­ed by Séver­ine Padi­ol­leau, bring­ing togeth­er the UTC Enzy­mat­ic and Cel­lu­lar Engi­neer­ing Lab­o­ra­to­ry (GEC), the Com­piègne Applied Math­e­mat­ics Lab­o­ra­to­ry (LMAC) and UTC’s Knowl­edge, Organ­i­sa­tion and Tech­ni­cal Sys­tems Lab­o­ra­to­ry (Costech), as well as the Saint-Côme poly­clin­ic for the clin­i­cal aspect, has been formed to devel­op a direct, inex­pen­sive, reli­able and rapid method for detect­ing Lyme dis­ease. This dis­ease is espe­cial­ly preva­lent in for­est areas, as is the case in the Com­piègne area. The Saint-Côme poly­clin­ic is also one of the nation­al cen­tres of exper­tise ded­i­cat­ed to this dis­ease. Their work is part­ly fund­ed by UTC, the Sor­bonne Uni­ver­si­ty Alliance, the Hauts-de-France Region and patient asso­ci­a­tions, and address­es a region­al issue. Fur­ther proof of the dynamism of research at UTC is the award of a CNRS sil­ver medal to Anne-Vir­ginie Sal­sac, CNRS research direc­tor at the UTC Bio­me­chan­ics and Bio­engi­neer­ing Lab­o­ra­to­ry (BMBI).