India and France announce partnership between C-CAMP and PariSanté Campus to establish Life Sciences Sister Innovation Hub
The Hindu
The move signifies deeper co-operation between the two countries for the greater goal of mitigating challenges in the United Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG) domain of healthcare.
The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), a life sciences technology innovation hub by the Department of Biotechnology (Government of India) based in Bengaluru, has inked a pact to launch a bilateral innovation collaboration in the healthcare domain called the Indo French Life Sciences Sister Innovation Hub withPariSanté Campus, a digital health innovation cluster in France.
One Health and Digital Health Technologies have been identified as the two focus areas. The intent is to enable targeted innovative solutions from one geography for challenges impacting another. The aim is to foster links between both hubs to enhance science-based entrepreneurship, research, academia, and businesses by leveraging each other’s ecosystems.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron formally announced the partnership, following bilateral talks at the Paris AI Summit, in a joint communiqué.
Welcoming the joint statement, C-CAMP Director-CEO Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed said, “We are delighted to have our Letter of Intent (LOI) with PariSanté Campus to be formalised by the highest leadership of the two countries. This clearly indicates the urgency of intent between the two countries to improve the quality and delivery of healthcare for the larger society. The partnership’s first goal would be to galvanise global networks of excellence and leverage mutual ecosystems to support researchers and innovators developing cutting-edge solutions from one geography to the other. C-CAMP and PariSanté Campus will play the central role in enabling this.”
The LOI was signed on February 10 by Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed and Pr. Antoine Tesnière, Director, PariSanté Campus. The first initiatives of the LoI are expected to be announced in the coming days.
The Consul General of France in Bengaluru, Mr. Mark Lamy, also shared his excitement about this partnership, saying, “The Letter of Intent between C-CAMP and PariSanté Campus for Indo-French Life Sciences Sister Innovation Hub will bring together the best of innovation hubs from our two countries to work together on two very important areas: One Health and Digital health. This partnership will pave the way for groundbreaking innovations. Indeed, the French government that I represent is very proud to see the emergence of such a collaboration, and we will keep on supporting the scientific and academic cooperation between our two countries.”
The move signifies deeper co-operation between the two countries for the greater goal of mitigating challenges in the United Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG) domain of healthcare.
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