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Healthcare and life sciences: leading the way in Europe

Paris Region stands out as Europe’s pre-eminent life sciences region, hosting a multitude of international corporations and pharmaceuticals laboratories, including Pfizer, GSK, Novartis, Astra Zeneca and Roche, alongside key French industry players like Sanofi, Pierre Fabre, Servier, Ipsen Guerbet and others.

  • More than 1,000 life sciences organizations
  • Pharmaceuticals industry: more than 300 companies
    including Sanofi, Servier, Ipsen, Roche, GlaxoSmithKline
  • Biotechnologies: more than 200 companies
    including Sanofi’s biotherapeutic platform, Genzime, Cellectis
  • Medical technologies: more than 360 companies
    including GE Medical Systems research center, Siemens, Philips, Sorin Medical, Guerbet

 

Europe’s largest hospital network

  • Assistance-Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP): 37 hospitals, 22,500 beds and 71,800 healthcare professionals (15,800 doctors) in 2011
  • Europe’s biggest hospital: Pitié-Salpêtrière (1,800 beds)
     

Healthcare and life sciences: world-class research

  • 300 public and private research centers
  • 11,800 life sciences researchers
  • Globally renowned institutions including the Pasteur Institute (Institut Pasteur), Curie Institute (Institut Curie), the Gustave Roussy cancer center (Institut Gustave Roussy), INSERM (French institute of health and medical research), CEA (French alternative energies and atomic energy commission), etc.
  • Top-tier higher education: 9 universities, 20 “Grandes Écoles” (competitive-entry elite universities)

 

Europe’s leading region for clinical trials

  • Europe’s no.1 biomedical research center: 865 clinical trials every year involving 20,000 patients; 2,800 ongoing research projects
     

Fostering innovation

  • Incubators and bioparks for innovative start-ups: Genopole, Paris Biotech, Agoranov, Paris Biopark, Biocitech, Villejuif Biopark, etc.
  • Leading venture capital operations including Truffle Capital, Edmond de Rothschild, Investment Partners, CMC-CIC, Auriga Partners and Sofinnova.

 

Video : Interview of Stefano di Lullo, President, Cardiac Rythm Management - Sorin Group

 

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A healthcare and life sciences cluster: Medicen Paris Region

  • 220 members
  •  208 accredited projects receiving funding – representing total investments of €753 million including €353 million of state funding.
  • 18 new products marketed in the fields of medical imaging and devices and biological tools.
  • 3 therapeutic fields: central nervous system, cancer and infectious diseases
  • 3 key technologies: imaging, tissue and cell therapy, pharmaceutical technologies
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  • No.1 in Europe for the pharmaceuticals industry
  • No.1 in Europe for clinical trials
  • No.1 in Europe for its hospital network
  • No.2 for medical technology
  • No.3 for biotechnologies

See also

Paris Region Entreprises news
Paris Region at the International BIO convention
07.01.2014
The international convention for biotechnologies, Bio Convention, ended last Thursday in San Diego, USA. The major event, held from June 23-26, brought together over 15,660 of the world’s leading industrial players from 70 different countries.
What entrepreneurs say about us
Japanese company MNEXT choosing France to initiate its European presence
11.05.2012
Specialised in the development of surgical device management and control systems, MNEXT has chosen to establish its first subsidiary on the Champs-Elysées in Paris to commercialise its innovative technology.

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