HealtH & NutritioN

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A mAjor heAlth & nutrition cluster in europe

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LILLE

France

Strasbourg

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Rotterdam

Le Havre

Zeebrugge

Dunkerque

Calais

St-OmerBéthune

LensArras Douai

Cambrai

Valenciennes

Maubeuge

ArmentièresBoulogne/Mer

AMSTERDAM

PARISCDG AIRPORT

Germany

Netherlands

Belgium

United Kingdom

CHANNEL

NORTH SEA

Antwerpen

LONDON

BRUXELLES KÖLN

LONDONHEATHROW

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TGV CDG AIRPORT 50MTGV PARIS 1H

TGV BRUSSELS 35M

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78 millioN coNsumers

Part 1.0 Lille Region, direct access to Europe’s top markets

rePreseNtiNG €1,500 billioN PurcHasiNG Power witHiN a 300-km radius

lille reGioN: at tHe Heart of euroPe’s larGest coNceNtratioN of coNsumers

HealtH & NutritioNPart 2.0 A leading health cluster in France and Europe-wide

a leadiNG HealtH cluster iN fraNce aNd euroPe-wide

close-uP: toP comPaNiesbiotecHNoloGies Genfit, EFS - Établissement Français du Sang – French Blood Agency, LFB - Laboratoire Français du Fractionnement & des Biotechnologies – Laboratory for Fractionation and Biotechnologies, Diagast, AlzProtect, IBD - Intestinal Biotech Development, Bifinove, Genoscreen, ImaBiotech, LungInnov, InnoBioChips, Purifunction and more.

PHarmaceuticals aNd ParaPHarmaceuticals AstraZeneca, GSK Vaccines, Bayer Healthcare France, Accord Healthcare, Boiron, Delpharm, Rottendorf Pharma, Super Diet and more.

fiNe cHemicals aNd PHarmaceutical iNGredieNts Ajinomoto, Synthexim, Minakem, Produits Chimiques de Loos, and more.

traditioNal biotecHNoloGies DSM Food Specialties, Lesaffre, Roquette Frères and more.

biomaterials/imPlaNts Cousin Biotech, Intech Medical, Arthrex, Goblet Daumas, Symmetry Medical, Westlake Plastics Europe and more.

medical electroNics Horiba, Medtronic, Metrodoloris, Surgiview and more.

medical aNd HosPital equiPmeNt Lille Healthcare-Ontex, MacoPharma, Biolume, HMS – Home Medical Service, Active Medical Disposable, Mölnlycke HealthCare, Ontex Healthcare, Plastiques Gosselin-Corning, Surgiris, Ethilog, Phorexy and more.

HealtHcare it solutioNs Alicante, Aquilab, Atao Audio System, EBL, Etineo, Osyris, Symbiofi, EtiBox Life and more.

a maGNet of iNterNatioNal iNvestmeNtvalue-added ProductioN Gsk vacciNes chose Saint-Amand-les-Eaux to develop its new manufacturing platform for vaccines - a €600 million investment. In a hotly-contested competition with sites in other European regions, Saint-Amand won out, thanks to its expertise in complex production processes, its strategic location and highly qualified labor pool.

researcH aNd develoPmeNt In Lille Métropole, Britain’s tate & lyle is currently expanding its new European innovation center dedicated to developing new functional ingredients. The nutrition expertise on tap at Lille Region’s Nutrition-Health-Longevity competitiveness cluster was a key factor in its decision to locate here.

Headquarters bayer HealtHcare fraNce has moved its head office from the Paris region to Lille Métropole’s Eurasanté Business Park.

key fiGures• 3rd-ranked health cluster in france

• over 800 companies

• more than 23,000 jobs

• €7.3 billion in sales

• No. 1 region in france for technical textiles with health applications

• No. 2 region in france for medical and hospital equipment

HealtH & NutritioNPart 2.1 A leading health cluster in France and Europe-wide

key comPaNies oPeratiNG iN lille reGioN

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VALENCIENNES

MAUBEUGE

AVESNES/HELPE

LILLE

CAMBRAI

ARRAS

DOUAI

LENS

MONTREUIL/MER

BOULOGNE/MER

SAINT-OMER

CALAIS

DUNKERQUE

BÉTHUNE

LSO Medical

Lille Healthcare - Ontex

Ontex Healthcare

Anios Laboratoires

Boiron Alzprotect

Genoscreen

LFBInnoBioChips

LungInnov

Maco Pharma

BifinoveAccord Healthcare

Symmetry Medical Polyvac

DiagastEFS

IBDGenfit Isovital

Ecodas Westlake Plastics Europe

Metrodoloris

Surgiris

HMS VilgoBiolume

ASP AstraZeneca

AlkosCosmetiques

Active Medical

Lesaffre

Sakura FineTek

Horiba

AjinomotoSweeteners

In Tech Medical

Biorad

Roquette

Silliker

Superdiet

L'Oréal

Laboratoires Rodael

Scora

SyntheximTioxide

Plastiques Gosselin - Corning

DelpharmMölnycke Healthcare

Cousin Biotech

Cereplas

GSK Vaccines

Rottendorf Pharma

Sarbec

Minakem

Minakem

Goblet Daumas

Medtronic

Depolabo

AMD

4Clinics OCP DCI Pharma

DSM

Bayer Healthcare France

Arthrex

Tate&Lyle

PurifunctionImabiotech

Symbiofi

Ethilog

LILLE MÉTROPOLE

EURASANTÉ

Surgiview

LILLE

A leAding heAlth cluster in FrAnce And europe-wide

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close-uP: leadiNG HealtH iNstitutioNslille uNiversity HosPital ceNter One of the most concentrated university hospital campus in Europe and the third-ranked medical center for studies and clinical trials in France, the Center has a total of 3,000 beds.

lille’s Pasteur iNstitute Over 600 researchers specialize in infectious diseases, epidemiology, the genetics of multifactorial diseases, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, nutrition and other key areas.

oNcolille Officially recognized by the French government as a center of excellence for cancer research, OncoLille is home to more than 300 researchers specializing in tumor resistance, dormancy and persistence.

oscar lambret caNcer treatmeNt ceNter Staffed by over 150 specialized researchers and physicians, the Center treats 7,000 patients annually.

efs -etablissement français du sang The top blood collection center in France

lfb - laboratoire français du fractionnement et des biotechnologies A standard-setter in plasma fractionation

lille bioloGy iNstitute 12,000 sq m of laboratory space with more than 200 scientists

over 20 uNits of France’s National Center for Scientific Research

(cNrs) and National Institute of Health

and Medical Research (iNserm)

lille uNiversity ii Over 550 researchers in the life sciences

eGid - european Genomics institute for diabetes France’s top research institute for diabetes, obesity and related risk factors

Prim Interdisciplinary research center for drug discovery and selection

lille cic-it A clinical investigation center specializing in healthcare IT (medical devices and e-health)

Part 3.0 Our research teams: diversity & excellence

our researcH teams: diversity & excelleNce

fields of excelleNce• cardiovascular diseases• metabolism• Nutrition• Neuroscience and

age-related diseases• infectious diseases• oncology• Hematology• orthopedics• drug discovery• biomaterials• and many more…

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close-uP: NutritioN - HealtH - loNGevity iNNovatioN cluster

a commoN Goal Harnessing nutrition and therapeutic innovation to prevent cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity, and age-related illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease.

two key Priorities• Nutrition and therapeutic

innovation

• The Nutrition-Health-Longevity innovative cluster brings together healthcare and agrifood companies, training institutes and researchers.

siNce its creatioN iN 2006

• The cluster has attracted over 75 members from research centers and from the agrifood, pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.

• More than 150 joint projects have been developed, for a total of over €300 million in R&D investment.

Part 3.1 Our research teams: diversity & excellence

Our research teams: diversity & excellence

HealtH & NutritioNPart 4.0 Lille Region is also home to Europe’s most concentrated university hospital campus

7 HosPitalsroGer saleNGro HosPital Neuroscience / trauma

Huriez HosPital Gastroenterology clinic

JeaNNe de flaNdre Dedicated to mothers and children

cardioloGy HosPital Cardiovascular pathologies

oscar lambret ceNter Cancer treatment center

calmette HosPital Emergency and respiratory medicine

swyNGHedauw HosPital Resuscitation

lille uNiversity HosPital ceNterkey fiGures

• 3,000 beds

• over 250,000 hospitalizations annually

• over 590,000 consultations annually

5 uNiversities

more tHaN 120 HealtHcare comPaNies bayer HealtHcare fraNce

GeNfit

efs - ÉtablissemeNt fraNçais du saNG (French Blood Agency)

lfb - laboratoire fraNçais du fractioNNemeNt & des biotecHNoloGies (Laboratory for Fractionation and Biotechnologies)

diaGast

Hms - Home medical service

biolume

metrodoloris

PurifuNctioN

alzProtect

ibd

aNd maNy more…

lille reGioN is also Home to euroPe’s most coNceNtrated uNiversity HosPital camPus

HealtH & NutritioNPart 4.1 Lille Region is also home to Europe’s most concentrated university hospital campus

LiLLe Region is aLso home to euRope’s most concentRated univeRsity hospitaL campus

access to tHe resources of a leadiNG HealtHcare cluster

cro aNd cliNical researcH • clinical investigation centers

• clinical research unit - Medical oncology

• Naturalpha (nutrition and health)

• lille Pasteur institute (nutrition)

• 4 clinics

• cit - it - a clinical investigation center specializing in healthcare IT

access to tecHNoloGy Platforms• functional genomics platform at lille’s

cancer research institute

• ibisa (proteomics and glycobiology platform)

• Peptide chemistry platform

• animal facilities 3 platforms at the Lille Pasteur Institute’s predictive medicine and therapeutic research institute and at the Oncovet Clinical Research center for veterinary cancer research.

• and many more…

desiGNiNG tHe HosPital room of tHe future iN lilleDeveloped by a cutting-edge public-private partnership, this project involves more than 30 member companies of Lille Region’s Clubster Santé. Their “concept room” reinvents the hospital room and ambulatory service from the ground up, with innovative ideas geared around a single goal: helping patients maintain relationships with loved ones and get back to independent living faster.

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efs etablissement français du sang – french blood agency• Largest regional delegation of the French

blood agency and sole authorized blood transfusion operator in France

• Provides 250,000 labile blood products to 200 healthcare facilities

• Covers 7 million residents

• Supplies 12-15% of all labile products used in France

• 600 employees

• Combines the full range of activities for preparing, qualifying and distributing blood products in a European-class technology platform based in Lille

lfb laboratoire français du fractionnement et des biotechnologies –laboratory for fractionation and biotechnologies

• No. 1 in France and no. 5 worldwide for plasma-derived drugs

• Among Europe’s leading companies for development of biotechnology-derived monoclonal antibodies and next-generation proteins

• 600 employees at its center in Lille

diaGast• World leader in the sale and development

of reagents, miniaturized laboratories for manual analysis and automated systems.

• 150 employees at a high-value-added production platform in Lille

macoPHarma• A worldwide standard-setter in transfusion

and infusion, with products including bags for blood and other type of fluids

• Developer of a revolutionary system for neutralizing pathogens in blood products

• 2,200 employees

• 5 production units worldwide

• Present in 70 countries

Part 5.0 A major European hub for blood collection and processing

a maJor euroPeaN Hub for blood collectioN aNd ProcessiNG

HealtH & NutritioNPart 6.0 The right people

a larGe labor Pool• 4 million inhabitants

• 34% of the population is under 25

skills oN taP • 160,000 students

• No. 2 educational cluster in France

• 19 schools of engineering

• Lille Region trains 10% of France’s engineers

a maJor educatioN aNd traiNiNG Platform for tHe life scieNces• 12, 000 medical and pharmaceutical

students

• No. 2 medical school in France: 11,000 students, with 400 new graduates each year

• 3rd-ranked pharmacy school in France: 2,000 students

• School of odontology

• Lille Institute of Management and Health Sciences (ILIS): 80 graduates a year

• Institute for occupational therapy studies

• Institute for massage and physical therapy studies

• Institute for osteopathy studies

• Institute for psychomobility studies

• And more…

tHe riGHt PeoPle

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close-uP: eurasaNtÉ busiNess ParkIn the heart of Europe’s most concentrated university hospital campus, with 7 hospitals and 5 universities, Eurasanté Business Park provides a business and research environment that’s perfect for growing your healthcare business.

Over 120 healthcare companies have chosen Eurasanté as the place to drive their growth in France and Europe.

tHe busiNess Park offers a broad raNGe of solutioNs to start aNd Grow HealtHcare busiNesses:

• Turnkey real-estate programs designed to accommodate office and laboratory activities

• A bio-business incubator exclusively for start-ups and growing companies in the healthcare sector. And the incubator is only one part of an integrated support system that offers expertise in technology, business, marketing, finance and law.

attractive oPeratiNG costs• Operating costs averaging 10% lower than

our European competitors for all types of business

• Payroll lower than in our main competitor regions in France

• Ranked among the top 3 most attractive regions for real-estate costs

• Prime office space up to 50% less expensive on average compared with our French and European competitors

• Real-estate as much as 26% less expensive for production facilities and 14% less for logistics

Based on a December 2012 survey by Ernst & Young.

attractive fiNaNcial suPPortIncluding the most attractive research tax credit system of any OECD country.

Part 7.0 The right solution for your business

tHe riGHt solutioN for your busiNesslille region offers a broad range of real-estate solutions at prices below those of other major economic clusters in france and across europe

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