THE MEDICINE OF THE HEALTHY MAN, THE MEDICINE OF TOMORROW

"Prevention is better than cure" goes the saying, and this is also the principle of Chinese medicine, which pays the doctor if the patient stays healthy. Today, this type of medicine is a major focus of development for pharmaceutical companies, as it involves managing health rather than disease, thus enabling long-term treatment. This is how cholesterol-lowering drugs and insulin have become the pharmaceutical industry's most successful products.
The ability to predict trajectories thanks to the analysis of gigantic databases has given rise to P4 medicine: Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, Participatory.

In this field, start-up PrediLife, recently floated on Euronext Growth, has developed a personalized breast cancer screening test, MammoRisk, validated using advanced data analysis techniques on a sample of 1.3 million women.

How was this company created? How is it financed? What are its development prospects? Is there a risk of competition from industry giants such as Google? More generally, what advances can be expected in the field of medicine? Could they eventually revolutionize the way medicine works, in terms of both diagnosis and treatment?

Stéphane Ragusa, at the heart of this exciting scientific and human adventure, will be on hand on January 11 to share his experience as a researcher and entrepreneur, as well as his vision of the renewed future of the medical field.

An alumnus of the Ecole Polytechnique, Stéphane Ragusa's multi-faceted career includes statistical studies at ENSAE, a degree in psychology and a thesis in molecular biology. He began his career in 2000 as a lecturer in mathematics applied to biology and medicine at Jussieu University, Paris VI. His particular interest in the effects of nutrition on the development of disease, in cooperation with INSERM, led him to focus on risk prediction. In 2004, he set up PrediLife under the French Innovation Act, which encourages academic researchers to set up their own companies. In 2008, he pioneered the "neighbors' method" applied to breast cancer screening.