Research Laboratories
Nantes University has 42 laboratories and 3 research federations. The institution shares joint supervision of several of its laboratories with other institutions, particularly CNRS, Inserm, Centrale Nantes and the universities of Angers, Rennes 1 and Le Mans.
Key figures
26 Joint Research Units
14 Research Units (RU)
3 Research Federations (RF)
1 Federative Research Structure (FRS)
4 Research Support Units (RSU)
Our laboratories by research area
- CR2TI - Center for Research in Transplantation and Translational Immunology
- CRCI2NA - Nantes-Angers Cancer and Immunology Research Center
- INCIT - Immunology and New Concepts in ImmunoTherapy
- ISOMER - Institute for Marine Substances and Organisms
- LPPL - Pays de Loire Psychology Laboratory
- MIP - Movement, Interactions, Performance
- PhAN - Physiopathology of Nutritional Adaptations
- RMeS - Regenerative Medicine and Skeleton
- Sphere - Methods In Patient-Centered Outcomes And Health Research
- TaRGeT - Translational Research in Gene Therapy
- TENS - The Enteric Nervous System in Gut and Brain Disorders
- Thorax Institute
- US2B - Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Unit
- GeM - Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering
- GEPEA - Environmental Process Engineering - Agri-food
- IETR - Institute of Electronics and Digital Technologies
- IMN - Institute of Materials Jean Rouxel - Nantes
- IREENA - Nantes-Atlantique Electrical Energy Research Institute
- LHEEA - Research Laboratory in Hydrodynamics, Energetics & Atmospheric Environment
- LS2N - Nantes Digital Sciences Laboratory
- LTeN - Thermal Laboratory and Energy of Nantes
- CREN - Nantes Education Research Centre
- LLing - Nantes Linguistics Laboratory
- LPPL - Pays de Loire Psychology Laboratory
- LS2N - Nantes Digital Sciences Laboratory
- Sphere - Methods In Patient-Centered Outcomes And Health Research
- AAU - Atmospheres, Architecture, Urbanities
- ESO - Spaces and Societies
- LETG - Littoral, Environment, Teledetection, Geomatics
- LPPL - Pays de Loire Psychology Laboratory
Updated on 14 January 2026.