Health and biotech

π Health and biotech π Science and technology

3D printing in hospitals: open innovation during the COVID-19 crisis

With Benoit Tezenas du Montcel, Assistant Professor at Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, Charlotte Krychowski, Assistant Professor at Institut Mines-Télécom Business School

On October 28th, 2025
5 min reading time

Open innovation has helped counter shortages in hospitals during the COVID-19 crisis while boosting manufacturing processes.

π Planet π Health and biotech

Eating fewer animals reduces emissions, but by how much?

With Joël Aubin, Research Engineer at INRAE

On June 25th, 2025
4 min reading time

A reduction in animal protein consumption among adults in France could lead to a decrease of the impact of food on climate change, acidification and land use.

Guillaume Couillard
π Health and biotech

How to improve the hospital system: a question of organisation?

With Guillaume Couillard, Chief Executive Officer of Paris Psychiatry & Neurosciences GHU, Etienne Minvielle, Director of the Centre de Recherche en Gestion at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris)

On June 18th, 2025
4 min reading time
Estelle Peyrard
π Society π Health and biotech

Innovation: calling on the expertise of people with disabilities as a way to co-create

With Estelle Peyrard, Research Associate at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris) , Cécile Chamaret, Professor in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris)

On April 29th, 2025
4 min reading time
π Health and biotech π Society

Drug shortages: 39% of French people at risk in 2024

With Clément Dherbécourt, Assistant to the Deputy Director of Syntheses, Economic Studies and Evaluation at DREES

On April 23rd, 2025
5 min reading time

In 2024, 39% of French people said they experienced medicines shortages, and 35% of them said that no alternative treatments were made available.

π Neuroscience π Health and biotech

How do our bodies tune into the Sun's rhythm?

With Claude Gronfier, Researcher in Chronobiology at Inserm's Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon

On March 19th, 2025
4 min reading time

A study of RATP employees shows that tram and bus drivers (outdoors) have fewer sleep disorders than metro drivers (indoors).