The Research Centre UMR1231- LNC was initially created as UMR866 « Lipids, Nutrition, Cancer-LNC » on 1 January 2007 and is the result of a joint programme of several groups which led to the signature of a four-year contract with INSERM, the University of Burgundy and the EPHE. The founding teams of the LNC Research Centre are from INSERM units U498 (« Intravascular metabolism of lipoproteins »), U517 (« Cell death and cancer »), and EPI-106 (« Epidemiology of digestive cancers »)