Thursday noon, at the gates of 15e arrondissement of Paris and the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine). The building, with its all-glass façade, overlooks the capital’s ring road. Installed in the atrium under the huge glass roof bathed in sunlight, a group of entrepreneurs discusses animatedly, while another one is exchanging business cards. A few tables further, a third lunches quietly. “The ANRS infectious and emerging diseases team, the new agency created during Covid-19”details Antoine Tesnière, before greeting them.
Welcome to the ParisSanté Campus, the “new beating heart of e-health innovation”, continues our host. The professor of anesthesia-resuscitation, former adviser in charge of Covid-19 to Olivier Véran, has been overseeing the launch of this young structure for a year, announced in December 2020 by President Emmanuel Macron, and intended to be the bridgehead of the French digital health ecosystem.
Inaugurated on December 14, 2021, the place, installed in the former headquarters of the Technicolor company, covers approximately 20,000 square meters, and brings together pell-mell start-ups, research institutes specializing in e -health, SMEs and large groups, like Doctolib or Dassault Systèmes, and institutional players.
Thirty start-ups
It is part of the France Relance plan, launched in 2020 to boost the French economy, from which it benefited from an envelope of 45 million euros, to which was added funding from five public operators: Inserm , PSL University, Inria, the Health Data Hub, and the Digital Health Agency. “Ultimately, the site will accommodate more than 1,500 people”rejoices the CEO, who sees this new entity as the merger of the highly reputed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in the United States, and Station F, the start-up incubator, launched in 2017 by Xavier Niel (also an individual shareholder of the World). The place also echoes the Campus Cyber which has just opened in the business district of La Défense (Hauts-de-Seine). “The objective is to break down silos and bring together the various actors and experts in the sector under one roof so that they can meet, discuss, imagine and create the health of tomorrow. A place dedicated to e-health in this dimension is unprecedented”explains Antoine Tesnière.
In the interior courtyard, with its sober and modern decor, nothing lets guess the vocation of the place, except in a corner a teleconsultation cabin, developed by the start-up H4D, which is one of the young shoots in growth which joined the building as soon as it opened. The opportunity for the master of the place to praise the synergies that take place between its walls. “Precisely, his contractor came across an imagery researcher here. After a few minutes, they said to each other that ultrasound probes should be added to the cabin, and exchanged contact details.said M. Tesnière, smiling.
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