2023-11-02 07:00:05
A woman works on a vaccine against lung cancer at the Ose Immunotherapeutics laboratory, in Nantes, October 1, 2023. LOIC VENANCE / AFP
Who will coordinate research in biology and health in France? Philippe Berta, MoDem deputy for Gard, added, Thursday October 26, a new proposal to the debate launched by the President of the Republic, on May 16, at the Institut Curie. Emmanuel Macron called for an action plan “to have more unified and more efficient biomedical research”.
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Rapporteur of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education of the National Assembly for opinion on the research component of the finance bill for 2024, Philippe Berta proposes to entrust the Health Innovation Agency with the steering function overall. In the form of an interministerial directorate for health research and innovation placed under the supervision of Matignon, “this structure would aim to ensure the coherence of the biomedical research strategies of ministerial supervision and major operators, and the creation of synergy between the different actors, in order to combat compartmentalization of all kinds. It would intervene across the entire value chain, from fundamental research to valorization, through ad hoc internal structures”argues the MP, himself a former genetics researcher at CNRS and Inserm and university professor.
It thus goes against the recommendations of the report that geophysicist Philippe Gillet submitted on June 15 to Sylvie Retailleau, Minister of Higher Education and Research, as part of the mission on “the ecosystem of research and ‘innovation’ which had been entrusted to him. The geophysicist recommended structuring research programming around national research organizations (ONR) which would be transformed into program agencies. In the process, Ms. Retailleau entrusted, on July 13, with her colleagues in health and industry, François Braun and Roland Lescure, a mission to Raymond Le Moign, general director of the Hospices Civils de Lyon, and Manuel Tunon of Lara, university professor, to propose a “plan for the renovation of biomedical research”. A plan in which Inserm is entrusted with the foreshadowing of a health program agency.
A harmful dispersion
Philippe Berta does not call into question the initial observation nor the need to create a national structure for steering and coordinating biomedical research. “You just have to look on the Internet who is doing infectious disease research in France. When we see the number of public structures that intervene in this area, without relationships between them, it’s scary”, he summarizes. Another example of a dispersion that he considers detrimental, “INRAE, under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture, which also works on human health”.
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