HITS News
1st December 2025
Call for papers
Colleagues are warmly invited to share the call for papers (www.gate.cnrs.fr/en/ehew26) and to submit their best research to the 24th European Health Economics Workshop (EHEW), co-organized by the Laboratoire GATE and the HITS Institute. The workshop will take place on June 4–5 on the emlyon business school campus in Lyon.
(More information: jelovac@gate.cnrs.fr)
25 November 2025
Seminar by Prof. Tianxi Cai
The AIM Institute and the HITS institute were delighted to host Tianxi Cai, Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. Prof. Cai summarized the current outlook of data science and artificial intelligence applied to medical data and electronic health records in particular.
(More information: jelovac@gate.cnrs.fr)
17 November 2025
ENCHE (European Network on Climate & Health Education)
The European Network on Climate and Health Education, led by Prof Camille Huser and Dr. Lynn Wilson (University of Glasgow), aims to engage ~10,000 students over three years on sustainability within medical curricula by convening a network of interested faculty staff across Europe. Its first Away Days took place at the WHO Academy in Lyon, with the enthusiastic support of emlyon business school students in the MSc in Healthcare Innovation & Data Science, and the joint contribution of Xavier Blot and Bruno Versaevel. (More information: xblot@em-lyon.com)
10 November 2025
Welcome to Feifei Cao
The HITS Institute is delighted to welcome Feifei Cao as a visiting doctoral student. Feifei is pursuing her PhD at the Harbin Institute of Technology. Feifei's research focuses on e-health and AI-driven healthcare, with applications in chronic disease detection and intelligent medical assistance systems.(More information: fcao@em-lyon.com)
2 July 2025
Biotuesdays
emlyon business school's HITS Institute hosted a session of Biotuesdays. This event brings together life science entrepreneurs and their financial, scientific, and clinical partners from the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region on the first Tuesday of every odd-numbered month.
25 June 2025
Industry Disruptor of the Year
Hervé Affagard, CEO, co-founder of MaaTPharma, and member of the Corporate Advisory Board of the emlyon BioPharma curriculum, brought back the “Industry Disruptor of the Year” trophy from the 10th Annual Microbiome Movement Summit in Boston.
12 June 2025
AI x Discovery x Clinical Development
Computational approaches powered by AI are revolutionizing the discovery and clinical development of drugs, vaccines, biomarkers, and diagnostic technologies, paving the way for a new era of precision medicine. A one-day international conference organized by the HITS Institute brings together clinicians, academics, executives, entrepreneurs and students to explore how AI-driven innovations are shaping the future of healthcare with unprecedented speed.
Contact: Bruno Versaevel
26 March 2025
New Dual Degree: emlyon x UCL GBSH
emlyon business school and the UCL Global Business School for Health (UCL GBSH), the world’s first business school dedicated to health, have launched a dual master's degree in Biotech and Pharmaceutical Management — set to start in September 2025. This will be available to students enrolled in emlyon’s two-year BioPharma curriculum within the Master in Management (MiM) programme.
Contact: Bruno Versaevel
12 March 2025
Mental Health of Executives
As part of the Malakoff Humanis Chair on the mental health of executives, Aurélien Baillon, a researcher at the HITS Institute, conducted a survey of 175 executives. The first results have been published, as reported by the newspaper Les Echos. It was notably observed that 40% of respondents reported average, poor, or very poor mental health.
Contact: Aurélien Baillon
21 January 2025
HCL Convention
The HITS Institute was invited to take part in the Convention of the Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL). Bringing together 150 participants, including 50 representatives of HCL partners, during three agoras from November 2024 to January 2025, the initiative aimed to co-construct a vision for HCL over a 10-year horizon.
Contact: Bruno Versaevel
10 January 2025
Do Google Reviews matter for doctors?
In a new paper, published in Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Agathe Morinière et alii examine Google patient reviews as "online emotional accountability," revealing their impact on doctors' accountability, ethics, and public scrutiny.
Contact: Agathe Morinière
12 December 2024
Emotion regulation
In a new paper, Gordon Sayre et alii show that individuals use different combinations of strategies to regulate their emotional responses to hostility at work.
Contact: Gordon Sayre
03 December 2024
alumni Health Club: meet the HITS institute
On December 3, starting at 6:30 p.m., on the new Lyon campus of emlyon business school, alumni are invited to meet the HITS Institute.
Contact: Quentin Le Masne & Duncan Boce
02 December 2024
OnlyLyon Invest / health sector
On Monday, December 2, on the emlyon campus, the HITS institute hosted the annual meeting on the challenges of the health sector organized by OnlyLyon Invest.
Contact: Emmanuelle Sysoyev & Florent Gerbaud
29 November 2024
Private Investment Day at Lyonbiopole
The HITS Institute took part in the 16th Private Investment Day organized by Lyonbiopole on Friday 29 Novembre: “An annual event that has taken place since 2009, this unique day is an opportunity for project leaders and early-stage SMEs, who are Lyonbiopole members, to network and meet investors.”
03 December 2024
Research Chair “Mental Health of Executives”: first results
The preliminary results of an in-depth study conducted by the Research Chair “Mental Health of Executives”, in partnership with Malakoff Humanis, will be presented on December 3, 2024 on the Paris campus of emlyon business school.
Contact: Prof. Aurélien Baillon
07 October 2024
Partnering Day at Lyonbiopole
emlyon business school contributes to the Partnering Day organized by Lyonbiopole on Tuesday 15 October: “This event aims to encourage meetings between health actors, whether they are clinicians, academics or industrialists, around topics that promote innovation.”
04 October 2024
Congratulations to Auriane Cano-Chancel
Auriane Cano-Chancel, VP, Head of Oncology & Hematology, France, AstraZeneca, and member of the Corporate Advisory Board of the emlyon BioPharma curriculum, is laureate of the Institut Choiseul's health innovation awards.
03 October 2024
Welcome to Jari Hakanen
The HITS Institute is delighted to welcome Jari Hakanen, Research Professor at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, as a new member of its Scientific Committee.
Contact: Prof. Lotta Harju
02 October 2024
HITS & HHLyon
The HITS Institute is a partner of the Hacking Health Lyon (HHLyon) #8, a unique and original event which aims to support committed and convinced innovators who wish to transform the health of tomorrow, the lives of patients, caregivers and health users.
01 October 2024
HITS & JECO
The HITS institute takes part in the ‘Journées de l'Economie' (JECO) on Tuesday 5 November 2024, by organizing three round tables on health-related contemporary economic issues.
Contact: Prof. Aurélien Baillon.
26 September 2024
Students of MSc in Health Management & Data Intelligence program visit Boehringer Ingelheim
Lyon is Boehringer Ingelheim's center of activity in France, with more than 1,500 employees. The French headquarters and the Animal Health headquarters are located in the biodistrict, close to emlyon's campus.
Contact: Dr. Shaily Malik.
09 July 2024
New publication by Guy Vernet
Guy Vernet published a chapter entitled “Genomics of Infectious Diseases and Private Industry” (with Alex van Belkum) in: Tibayrenc, M. (ed.), 2024, Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, (3rd edition), Elsevier.
07 July 2024
emlyon becomes associate member of Lyonbiopole
emlyon business school has become an associate member of the Lyonbiopôle competitiveness cluster, a catalyst in the healthcare innovation ecosystem in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
01 July 2024
HITS institute at the EuHEA conference 2024
Izabela Jelovac and Bruno Versaevel participated in the 2024 European Health Economics Association (EuHEA) conference at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien).
04 June 2024
Health at Work – a research workshop
The HITS Institute supports the one-day workshop on the topic of 'health at work' organized by the BRiO group at emlyon.
Contact: Prof. Astrid Hopfensitz.
3 June 2024
HITS institute welcomes BioBAY and visits BIOASTER
The HITS Institute and a delegation from the biomedical industry cluster BioBAY/Suzhou Industrial Park (China), headed by Michael Yin (CEO) and Lijuan Gu (Manager), visited BIOASTER, the leading not-for-profit Scientific Cooperation Foundation dedicated to the study of microbiology and infectious diseases, to meet Xavier Morge (CEO), Alexandre Moulin (Deputy CEO) and Régis Villet (Head of Development & Strategic Partnerships).