Organized by JeCCo – Young Researchers of the Institut Cochin – on January 26, 2026, with 116 participants, this symposium highlighted how research is addressing major current scientific and societal challenges.
This year's program focused on antibiotic resistance and strategies to combat it, emerging pathogens, cellular responses to environmental pollution, non-infectious diseases and their societal impact, and the role of science in the fight against infertility.

Researchers from several major institutions participated:
Régis Tournebize (CIMI, Paris), Hugo Condessa Barreto, Manon Babise, Anaïs Vignon, Widad Nefida, Tin Hinan Lassouani, Marie Croquet (Institut Cochin), Luc Dauchet (Institut Pasteur, Lille), Séverine Boillée (Institut du Cerveau), Clémence Duruel (INEM), Gaétan Braud (PARCC), and Aminata Touré (Institute for Advanced Biosciences).

The sponsors were: New England Biolabs, Tebubio, Eurogentec, and Microb'EX.