On the occasion of the Summit on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence, attended by the President of the French Republic, the Embassy of France in India will organize High-Level Academic and Scientific Meetings (Rencontres universitaires et scientifiques de haut niveau/RUSH) on the future of Franco-Indian Cooperation. This event will take place in New Delhi on February 18 and 19, 2026, and it aims to foster academic and scientific cooperation between the two countries.

Members of ENS de Lyon will take part in these meetings. On February 19, a session entitled “AI & Global Health” will be led by the Franco-Indian Campus in Life Sciences and Health, in collaboration with Biosantexc. The session will include three thematic roundtables, each bringing together panelists from different projects of the Franco-Indian Campus (CFI) :

• Roundtable 1: From Cell Biology to Medical Imaging and 6P Medicine
  • ENS de Lyon speaker: Kiran Padmanabhan, Group Leader at Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL)
• Roundtable 2: AI, Global and Planetary Health: Issues for India and France
• Roundtable 3: From Bioethics to Responsible and Inclusive AI
  • ENS de Lyon speaker: Stéphane Parola, Vice President for Strategy and Professor

Karin Kim Lim, Head of International Cooperation and Partnerships and coordinator of the Biosantexc project, will also be present as an official representative of ENS de Lyon. A presentation session of the Franco-Indian Campus in Life Sciences and Health is scheduled for February 18, followed by B2B meetings on the afternoon of February 19.