Gathering more than 1,250 companies, health is an important economic sector for the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (AURA) region. It notably hosts the headquarters of the largest pharmaceutical groups and unique cutting-edge infrastructures. The AURA region aims to support healthcare companies in their development by sticking as closely as possible to their issues:
Financial contribution to the Lyonbiopôle competitiveness cluster and the I-Care Cluster, which drive the ecosystem and support companies in their innovation projects
International Development Plan (IDP) allowing business delegations to participate in the main world trade fairs
Structuring the health sector thanks to financing tools such as PIA3 (State-Region partnership)
Call for expression of interest to help medical technology companies to comply with the new European regulation "CE marking medical device 2020"
Furthermore, veterinary public health is a strategic area for the territory, and the region is delighted to invest in the VPH HUB.
The IRT (Institute of Research Technologies) BIOASTER, at the interface between private and academic actors in the Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, collaboratively designs and supports projects to accelerate the development of new products and solutions for the benefit of both human & animal within the frame of the “One Health Concept”.
In close contact with product developers and academic partners, we bring together academic creativity and industry needs, by providing knowledge and technology competencies to design, manage investments and execute projects tailored to the question asked, to support decision-making through results driven and informed decision process.
This is possible through our multidisciplinary teams and transversal organization supporting the 4 areas of microbiology that are prophylaxis, diagnostic, therapy and microbiome. We focus in particular on understanding the host pathogen interactions, biomarkers as the basis for population stratifications and precision medicine development.
On a daily basis, we provide our partners and clients with innovative scientific and technological solutions by: • designing and implementing tailored technological solutions to open them new areas of opportunities or tackle technological barriers identified in their developments; • producing robust and quality data, meeting industrial needs.
Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) is engaged in Veterinary public health and fighting animal epidemics since more than 70 years. Therefore, BI is a privileged partner recognized by several governements and international organizations, such as the OIE or the FAO. In the future, the VPH HUB will syngerize complementary expertise and catalyze the strenghts of the regional life sciences ecosystem. In this context, we intend to play a major role as an industrial group.
Boehringer Ingelheim develops innovative therapies to improve human and animal lives. As a research-driven biopharmaceutical company, BI creates value through innovation in areas where there are significant unmet medical needs. Since its creation in 1885, BI is a familial company based on a long-term vision. Today, it employs more than 52,000 employees in more than 130 countries, in human health, animal health and biopharmaceutical manufacturing for other companies. Fore more information, visit www.boehringer-ingelheim.com.
As the only local authority in France that combines skills in public health and economic development in the health sector, the Métropole de Lyon has made improving health for better living conditions one of its priorities. In order to support the development of the main actors of its health ecosystem, the Métropole de Lyon promotes public-private collaborations and encourages innovation and entrepreunership, many issues that are part of the VPH HUB's action plan for the benefit of the local and international population.
Since its creation, the Institut Mérieux has been promulgating a borderless biology between human and veterinary medicine. It privileges pluridisciplinary partnerships with public and private health actors, in order to bring new solutions against infectious diseases. Convinced of the potential of the Auvergne Rhône Alpes region, the Institut Mérieux is engaged with the VPH HUB to promote the regional attractiveness on a global scale and therefore develop public health.
Lyonbiopôle Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is a competitiveness cluster with an international dimension, specialized in the field of health. It federates and animates the Auvergne Rhône Alpes' region health ecosystem. It represents and values this regional network made of actors of scientific, technological and medical innovation at a local, national and international level.
Today, Lyonbiopôle gathers and advises more than 250 members - inculding companies, academics - in their innovation , growth , internationalization or accommodation projects. Its aim is to support these actors in building the medecine of the future and in providing patients with the healthcare innovations of tomorrow.
The Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University of Science, Technology, Health and Sport has more than 47,500 students and has been offering excellent training and cutting-edge research in an attractive environment for 50 years. The 5,000 staff members who make up the University work every day to provide a demanding educational program that is as close as possible to the reality of research, and is supported by 2,800 teacher-researchers. Its staff is also involved on a daily basis in the development of quality research, conducted in 62 laboratories with unique equipment. The second largest French university in terms of patent applications, Lyon 1 is also an innovative university that has seen the creation of 65 start-ups since 2011. Lyon 1's research is interdisciplinary and focused on the major societal issues of our time, and is helping to advance science in France and internationally.
VetAgro Sup is an education and research placed under the supervision of the french Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Being 260 years old and benefiting of 10 years of multidisciplinary, VetAgro Sup is the only French structure to train both veterinarians, agricultural engineers and veterinary public health inspectors, in order to tackle health issues in a global way.
VetAgroSup is also developing its training, research and expertise activites in a "One Health" approach, at the interface of human, animal and environmental health.
VetAgro Sup's expertise is supporting national, European and international economic players in the fields of food safety, animal health, agricultural sciences and environment.
VetAgro Sup is also very involved academically speaking. The school is a member of the Univeristé de Lyon and the Université CLermont Auvergne et Associés, which respectively obtained the IDEX and I-Site labels in 2017.
Aderly is the Lyonnaise Region Economic Development Agency and was founded in 1974. Since then, it has been prospecting, supporting and advising companies in their will to set up in Lyon. Lyon has been implicated in veterinary medicine for a long time and has always been at the forefront of research regarding infectious diseases and vaccinology. The VPH HUB aims to build an important health sector in the field of veterinary public health in Lyon, to promote the region on an international scale, a goal to which Aderly fully subscribes.
ANSES is a public administrative establishment, founded in 2010 and placed under the supervision of the ministries responsible for agriculture, consumption, the environment, health and labor. ANSES’ expertise covers the assessment of health risks in the area of food, environment and work, in order to enlighten the public authorities on health matters thanks to a network composed of nine laboratories. ANSES is in charge of human, but also animal and plant health issues and is therefore perfectly anchored in the “One Health” concept. The agency tackles all the chemical, biological and physical risks to which humans may be exposed. Its laboratories, located across the country, conduct research in order to acquire scientific knowledge about health hazards. The Laboratory located in Lyon works in the following areas, linked with veterinary public health: neurodegenerative diseases in animals and humans, in particular subacute transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (national reference laboratory), antibiotic resistance, mycoplasmosis in ruminants, epidemiology by surveillance and research on animal disease surveillance and food safety methodologies. The laboratory also runs two large laboratory networks: the epidemiological surveillance network for antibiotic resistance to pathogenic bacteria of animal origin (Résapath), the epidemiological surveillance network for mycoplasmosis in ruminants (Vigymic).
INRAE, which is the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment, is a major player in research and innovation created on January 1, 2020. Finalized research institute resulting from the merger between the Inra and Irstea, INRAE brings together a community of 12,000 people, with just over 200 research units and around 40 experimental units located in 18 centers across France. The institute is among the world leaders in agricultural and food sciences, plant and animal sciences, and is ranked 11th in the world in ecology-environment. INRAE's ambition is to be a key player in the transitions necessary to respond to major global challenges. Faced with the increase in population, climate change, the scarcity of resources and the decline of biodiversity, the institute is building solutions for multi-performing agriculture, quality food and sustainable management of resources and ecosystems. In the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the Institute has one of its strongest representations, with 38 units spread over 18 sites, and nearly 1,400 agents. It is organized into 2 research centers, the Clermont-Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Center and the Lyon-Grenoble Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Center. The two Centers include their work in a unique scientific scheme which constitutes the variation of INRAE's research offer in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region around 6 themes:
1. the agro-ecology of pasture breeding systems, the quality of the products derived from them and animal health
2. the integrative biology of model and cultivated plants and their adaptation to their environment
3. water, watersheds, aquatic ecology and associated environmental technologies
4. territories and socio-ecosystems, their qualifications, their trajectories and their support
