Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday a plan to boost research and innovation in health, including four billion public funds, supplemented by four billion private funds, after the French failure to quickly discover an anti-Covid vaccine.
No “huge cocorico”
“On the research side, I can’t do a huge cocorico”, he admitted, presenting the Health Innovation 2030 strategy, announcing in particular 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 of acceleration of public research “, affirmed 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.
Building research clusters
These four billion public funds include 400 million euros for priority research programs, 600 million to create “clusters”, otherwise known as 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.).
Funding of research laboratories
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 of private funds), 650 million for digital health (and 1.5 billion private funds) and 750 million for emerging and infectious diseases, said the Elysee. 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.
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