CRESS UMR 1153

What CRESS UMR 1153 does

CRESS UMR 1153 (Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Statistiques) is a French public research unit established in 2014 and jointly affiliated with Inserm, Université Paris Cité, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, and INRAE. The center conducts epidemiological and statistical research across five teams: OPPaLE (perinatal, pediatric, and environmental epidemiology), METHODS (statistical methods and meta-research), ECAMO (clinical epidemiology of musculoskeletal diseases), EpiAgeing (epidemiology of aging and neurodegenerative diseases), and EREN (nutritional epidemiology). It studies determinants of population health across the life course and designs and evaluates interventions to improve clinical practices and public health policy.

The center's core research infrastructure centers on the NutriNet-Santé web-cohort, launched in 2009 with over 174,000 volunteers aged 15 and older, which functions as a longitudinal research platform for nutritional epidemiology. CRESS is the creator of Nutri-Score, a front-of-pack nutritional labeling system now official in France and six other European countries. The center coordinates the NACRe network of 43 French academic laboratories and 10 European institutions working on nutrition and cancer, and maintains international research collaborations with IARC-WHO, Imperial College London, the Global Burden of Disease network, the University of São Paulo, the University of North Carolina, and Deakin University. Methodological outputs include pediatric growth monitoring algorithms, fitness tool indices for long-term disability/mortality prediction, and sleep–wake cycle biomarkers for neurocognitive disease risk.

CRESS is a non-profit public research institution with no commercial revenue model. It is funded through government research allocations from its parent institutions, competitive public grants (ANR, INCa, ERC, Horizon Europe), and institutional partnerships with agencies such as Santé Publique France. The center has approximately 325 personnel, including 110+ tenured researchers and teacher-researchers, 120+ engineers, technicians, and administrative staff, and 95+ PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. Research outputs are disseminated through peer-reviewed publications, scientific conferences, public engagement, and policy consultations with national health authorities; the center has no commercial product, API, or paying customer base.

Name

CRESS UMR 1153

Legal name

Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Statistiques (CRESS)

Website

https://cress-umr1153.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CRESS UMR 1153 is a French public research institution conducting epidemiological and statistical research across five teams—nutritional, perinatal, methodological, musculoskeletal, and aging epidemiology—serving public health policy through academic and government partnerships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Research

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (54171)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Real-World Evidence (RWE), HEOR & Epidemiology CROs (HLAGAAAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Clinical Data Management, Biostatistics & Statistical Programming CROs (HLAGAAAF)

Keywords

• Epidemiological research
• Public health research
• Statistical methods
• Nutritional epidemiology
• Population health

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Public Research Funding: CRESS is a public research unit (UMR) affiliated with Inserm, Université Paris Cité, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, and INRAE. Funding is derived from government research allocations, institutional partnerships, and competitive public research grants.

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Core offering

CRESS UMR 1153 is a public research center that conducts epidemiological and statistical research across five teams (OPPaLE, METHODS, ECAMO, EpiAgeing, EREN). It studies population health determinants across the lifespan, develops innovative research methodologies, and designs and evaluates interventions to improve clinical practices and public health policies. The center operates large-scale research infrastructures including the NutriNet-Santé web-cohort with over 174,000 volunteers.

Product overview

CRESS UMR 1153 (Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Statistiques) is a French public health research institution comprising five research teams: OPPaLE (perinatal, pediatric, and environmental epidemiology), METHODS (methodology and meta-research), ECAMO (musculoskeletal disease epidemiology), EpiAgeing (aging and neurodegenerative disease epidemiology), and EREN (nutritional epidemiology). The center operates major research infrastructure including the NutriNet-Santé web-cohort with over 174,000 volunteers, and develops methodological tools such as child growth monitoring algorithms. CRESS conducts population health research, creates epidemiological methodologies, and evaluates interventions to improve clinical practices and public health policies. No commercial product or API offering exists.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• NutriNet-Santé: Web-cohort study coordinated by EREN team, launched in 2009 with over 174,000 volunteers.
• EREN
• OPPaLE
• METHODS
• ECAMO
• EpiAgeing
• SMART

Products and services

• NutriNet-Santé Cohort
• EREN - Equipe de Recherche en Epidémiologie Nutritionnelle

Quantifiable outcome

• Nutri-Score adopted as official labeling system in France and 6 other European countries
• +1 more outcomes

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Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

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Feature3 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• Santé Publique France (ESEN)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2009Partnership with Santé Publique France through the ESEN (Equipe de Surveillance en Epidémiologie Nutritionnelle) team integrated into EREN under a mixed-agreement convention, focusing on public health nutritional surveillance.
• IARC-WHO (International Agency for Research on Cancer)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational collaboration on cancer research and nutritional epidemiology, working with the World Health Organization's cancer research agency.
• Imperial College LondoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic research collaboration on nutritional epidemiology and public health research with one of the world's leading universities.
• University of São PaulomajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational academic partnership for nutritional epidemiology research collaboration.
• University of North CarolinamajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational research collaboration in epidemiology and public health.
• Global Burden of Disease Network (University of Washington)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with the Global Burden of Disease study network for international health burden research.
• Deakin University (Sydney, Australia)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational academic partnership for nutrition and public health research.
• NACRe Network (Nutrition Activité physique Cancer Recherche)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEREN coordinates the NACRe network comprising 43 French academic laboratories and 10 European institutions working on nutrition and cancer research, funded by INCa.
• InsermcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary institutional affiliation; Inserm is the national institute for health and medical research in France.
• Université Paris CitécoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary university affiliation for research and teaching activities.
• Université Sorbonne Paris NordcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity affiliation for research activities.
• INRAEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInstitutional affiliation with the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Erasmus MC: A major Dutch academic medical center with extensive epidemiology and population health research. Erasmus MC's cohort-based research and methodological expertise align with CRESS's core activities.
• INRAE: Co-affiliating institution of CRESS and France's national research institute for agriculture, food, and environment. INRAE operates across nutrition and food science domains, with substantial overlap on nutritional epidemiology research that CRESS focuses on.
• Inserm: Parent institution of CRESS and the French national institute for health and medical research. Inserm covers the full breadth of biomedical research across France, while CRESS is a specialized epidemiology unit within it, making Inserm both a parent and a broad institutional peer.
• Karolinska Institutet: Sweden's leading medical university with substantial epidemiology and public health research programs. Karolinska has cohort studies and aging research that overlap with CRESS's EpiAgeing and EREN focus areas.
• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: A leading global public health research institution with deep expertise in epidemiology, nutrition, and aging research. While much larger and broader than CRESS, it operates in the same research domains and competes for the same scientific talent and grant funding.
• University College London (UCL) Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care: A leading UK-based epidemiology research institution with strengths in life-course epidemiology and aging research. UCL's research portfolio overlaps with CRESS's EpiAgeing team and broader methodology work.

Direct peers

• Santé Publique France: France's national public health agency and a core partner of CRESS through the ESEN team. It conducts national health surveillance and nutritional epidemiology, directly overlapping with CRESS's mission and serving as both a research partner and functional peer.
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: A leading European public health research institution with strengths in epidemiology, nutrition, and population health. LSHTM's research focus and large cohort studies make it a direct international peer to CRESS's epidemiological research.
• Imperial College London School of Public Health: One of CRESS's named international collaboration partners, with overlapping research in nutritional epidemiology, life-course epidemiology, and population health methodology. Imperial's scale and global reach make it a strong international peer.
• University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME): A named CRESS collaboration partner and the coordinator of the Global Burden of Disease study. IHME's focus on global health metrics, epidemiology methods, and policy translation directly overlaps with CRESS's population health research and policy advisory role.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@CRESSUMR1153
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cress-umr-1153

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Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

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