Health: Macron announces multi-billion euro plan for research and innovation

Emmanuel Macron at the launch of the meeting of the French Strategic Council for Health Industries (CSIS) at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, June 29, 2021. REUTERS - SARAH MEYSSONNIER

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Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday June 29 a plan to boost research and innovation in health, including more than four billion public funds for research, supplemented by four to five billion private funds, after the French failure to discover quickly get an anti-Covid vaccine.

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On the research side, I cannot do a huge cocorico 

", admitted President Emmanuel Macron by presenting the Health Innovation 2030 strategy with the announcement in particular of the creation of large research " 

clusters

 " to " 

break decades of downgrading 

" and "

 heaviness that slowed us down

 ".

These are four billion additional to the research law that we are mobilizing with obviously at least as much from the private sector: four billion in public funding, in addition to the LPPR (the multiannual research programming law), four billion from the private sector, therefore it is a massive strategy to accelerate public research,

 ”said the Head of State.

And it is " 

a change also in philosophy, organization, creation of ecosystems which responds in particular to the lessons of the crisis 

", he added.

Tens of millions for future talents 

These four billion public funds include 400 million euros for priority research programs, 600 million to create " 

clusters 

", in other words sites integrating research, care, private actors and industrial development of discoveries.

One of them, focused on cancer, will be linked to the Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR), in collaboration with Polytechnique, Saclay, Sanofi and Inserm, in the Fort de la Redoute, former buildings of the Ministry of the Interior, told AFP the director general of the IGR, Professor Jean-Charles Soria.

In addition, 300 million will go to research infrastructures (databases, cohorts, etc.).

The State will also finance several tens of millions to allow future talents to create their research laboratory in France, with three to five million each, as well as 800 million for biotherapies (supplemented by two billion in private funds), 650 million for digital health (and 1.5 billion private funds) and 750 million for emerging and infectious diseases, said the Elysee.

Our system today has created too many antibodies to innovation ...

Emmanuel Macron

Lucie Bouteloup

In addition, two billion euros for health start-ups, allocated through BPI France (one billion for grants and loans, one billion for investment funds).

Finally, 1.5 billion euros will support European industrialization projects.

This plan responds to the analysis carried out by the experts appointed by the Strategic Council of the Health Industries, at the request of the Head of State, who formulated 200 proposals to make France an innovative nation in health.

They regretted the obstacles to research, in particular the lack of cooperation between institutions.

We have made a rather sad trip in a world of non-cooperation and even of mistrust,

 " said Agnès Auditer, one of the experts, presenting her conclusions to Emmanuel Macron.

Make France the leading European nation in health innovation.

We can do it.

We are going to invest 7 billion euros in this strategic area, to give priority to those who take risks, but also to simplify and decompartmentalize.

- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) June 29, 2021

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AFP

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