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Bengaluru-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), India’s premier science and technology innovation hub in the life sciences domain has inked a pact to launch a bilateral innovation collaboration in the healthcare domain called the Indo French Life Sciences Sister Innovation Hub with PariSanté Campus, a leading digital health innovation cluster in France.
After detailed discussions, both sides identified two focus areas – One Health and Digital Health Technologies. The intent is to enable targeted innovative solutions from one geography for challenges impacting another. The aim is to foster links between both the hubs so as to enhance science-based entrepreneurship, research, academia and businesses by leveraging upon each other’s ecosystems.
The Letter of Intent (LOI) has been signed by Dr Taslimarif Saiyed, Director-CEO of C-CAMP and Prof Antoine Tesnière, Director, PariSanté Campus.
The primary focus of the LoI remains the milestone agreement to jointly facilitate research and innovative solutions in a bilateral manner. This is more critical since it would initiate for the first time deeper co-operation by the two countries in terms of breaking barriers for the greater goal of mitigating challenges in the crucial UNSDG domain of healthcare.
The other notable point is the two key areas to be addressed which have the potential to impact healthcare access and equity not just in Global North but also in the South. The first initiatives of the LoI will be announced soon.
PM Narendra Modi and President Emmanuel Macron during bilateral talks at the Paris AI Summit have formally announced the partnership in a joint communiqué earlier this month.
Dr Taslimarif Saiyed, said, “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.”
