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Top 25 Clinical research hospitals based in France

RevenueBase identified 70 clinical research hospitals headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 26,232 professional contacts across them, including 7,771 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.

This list covers clinical research hospitals headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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The 25 largest clinical research hospitals based in France

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 70 clinical research hospitals based in France, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 16, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to clinical research hospitals: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceToulouse, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202610001+4,785 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Au cœur de la région Occitanie ouest et d’une agglomération toulousaine au taux de croissance démographique soutenu, le Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Toulouse est un…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
2Partial evidenceMarseille, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202610001+4,769 contacts →

Partial evidence

“L'AP-HM : Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire et Institution citoyenne.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
3Partial evidenceLille, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202610001+3,132 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Un campus hospitalo-universitaire d'excellence Avec une communauté de plus de 15 professionnels, le CHU de Lille est l'un des plus grands campus santé du Nord de l'Europe.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
4Partial evidenceDijon, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 20265,001-10,0002,271 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Établissement support du Groupement hospitalier de territoire 21-52, le CHU Dijon Bourgogne comprend 1 764 lits et places et répond quotidiennement à une triple mission de soins…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
5Indirect evidenceRennes, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 20265,001-10,0001,948 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Etablissement pivot du GHT Haute Bretagne et classé parmi les 9 premiers établissements publics français en matière de soins*, le CHU de Rennes, offre une capacité…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
6Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 20261,001-5,0001,790 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Hôpital Medecine Chirurgie Obstétrique”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
7Partial evidenceNancy, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 20265,001-10,0001,629 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de référence dans le Grand Est, le CHRU de Nancy assure au quotidien des soins de recours et de proximité, grâce à une expertise…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
8Indirect evidenceLimoges, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 20265,001-10,0001,204 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Le CHU de Limoges a été créé en 1974 et a trois missions de service public : les soins, l’enseignement, la recherche et l’innovation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
9Partial evidenceBesançon, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 20265,001-10,000820 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Avec une capacité d'accueil de près de 2 200 lits et places d'hospitalisation, le CHU Besançon Franche-Comté assure une triple mission : • Répondre aux besoins de santé de la…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
10Partial evidenceToulouse, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 20261,001-5,000501 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The IUCT-Oncopole, a center for care, research, and training in cancerology, mobilizes on a single site in Toulouse the expertise of professionals.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
11Partial evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026201-500341 contacts →

Partial evidence

“UNICANCER groups together the 20 French Comprehensive Cancer Centres which are private, not-for-profit hospitals located across the French territory.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
12Partial evidenceMassy, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20084 contacts →

Partial evidence

“CERC is a specialized CRO driven by physicians recognized for their expertise in cardiovascular research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
13Indirect evidenceLe Kremlin-bicêtre, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20072 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
14Indirect evidenceNantes, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 20261,001-5,00052 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“L'institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale implanté dans le Grand Ouest administre 27 unités mixtes de recherche (UMR), 4 centres d’investigation clinique (CIC)…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
15Indirect evidenceSaint-grégoire, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20051 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Etablissement de santé privé spécialisé dans - Le traitement et la prise en charge des patients atteints de cancer- La recherche clinique - Les soins de support L’ICRB exerce sur…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
16Indirect evidenceGières, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20047 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Eurofins Optimed’s mission is to contribute to global Health & Safety.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
17Indirect evidenceAjaccio, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20043 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
18Indirect evidenceLyon, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5035 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“La médecine de ville représente la majorité du parcours de soins des patients.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
19Indirect evidenceGrenoble, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5024 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
20Partial evidenceToulon, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5011 contacts →

Partial evidence

“La Délégation à la Recherche Clinique et à l’Innovation (DRCI) est un service support complet permettant d’aider tous les acteurs hospitaliers dans la réalisation de leurs projets…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
21Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Le Comité National de Coordination de la Recherche est un groupement de coopération sanitaire dont l'objet est de "faciliter, développer et améliorer l'activité de recherche et…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
22Strong evidenceCroix, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5010 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Pharm Research was founded by a CRA to develop professionalization of the clinical research with hospital practitioner to improve the data quality and guarantee the patient safety.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
23Indirect evidenceCaen, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026501-1,0008 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“CENTRE REGIONAL FRANCOIS BACLESSE is a medical practice company based out of Caen, Normandie, France.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
24Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“REQPHARM est l'unité de la pharmacie à usage intérieur (PUI) de la Pitié-Salpêtrière dédiée à la recherche clinique et aux médicaments de thérapie innovante (MTI).”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
25Partial evidenceMontrouge, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 20261-104 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Clin4all is your partner based in France for your clinical studies (Phases IV, medical devices clinical investigations, care-related, RWE / RWD, observationnal studies).”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026

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Clinical research hospitals based in France at a glance

As of Sep 16, 2026
29.6%Verified-email coverage
374.7Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
20.0%Largest-city concentration · Paris
Sep 16, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
21
11-50
19
51-200
7
201-500
1
501-1,000
4
1,001-5,000
6
5,001-10,000
5
10001+
7

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 70 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among clinical research hospitals, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “clinical research hospitals”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names clinical research hospitals), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among clinical research hospitals, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 7,771 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names clinical research hospitals, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many clinical research hospitals are there based in France?

RevenueBase identified 70 clinical research hospitals headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

CHU DE Toulouse, headquartered in Toulouse, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most clinical research hospitals?

Paris leads with 14 headquartered companies, followed by Toulouse (5) and Nantes (3).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 7,771 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 70 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.