Integrated Health Research Center (CRESI)

A new Centre of Excellence for health research 

The CRESI, opening its doors in 2025 at the university hospital site of La Tronche, is a flagship initiative of the Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA). This multidisciplinary research center is dedicated to health innovation, promoting close collaboration between researchers, clinicians and industrialists to address major public health challenges.

Innovative platforms Physical exercise - Sleep - Hypoxia  

Within CRESI, the HP2 laboratory will be set up in 2025 with more than 1000 m2 welcoming researchers and clinicians around unique research platforms in France. The CRESI with the teams of the HP2 laboratory offers a unique research environment in Europe, conducive to new scientific and industrial innovations and collaborations.

Our goals

• Accelerate the exploration of key health factors: Physical exercise, sleep and hypoxia; contribute to transforming lifestyles towards healthier behaviors, develop original prevention and care strategies.
• Develop translational, multidisciplinary research from healthy volunteers to patients by combining skills in physiology, biology, clinical research and data sciences.
• Position Grenoble as a world leader in the field of exercise, sleep and hypoxia, clinical and technological innovation in health.

Our major assets within CRESI

• A triple integrative approach:
  - Medical: targeted research on the prevention and management of chronic diseases.
  - Scientist: an approach of multidisciplinary excellence, from biology to statistics.
  - Industrial: a bridge between fundamental research and concrete applications, in collaboration with leading economic players in the field.
• A strategic location: on the Health site of the University Grenoble Alpes, in direct proximity to the CHU Grenoble Alpes, prestigious research institutes of the UGA (such as IAB, GIN) and Biopolis, incubator for start-ups in health.
• State-of-the-art infrastructure:
  - Exercise - Physical Activity platform: Exercise exploration, cardio-metabolic and neuromuscular; Exercise training and therapeutic intervention.
  - Sleep platform: Exploration of sleep, diagnosis and management of sleep-related respiratory disorders.
  - Hypoxic exposure platform: Exposure of healthy subjects and patients to hypoxia, continuous or intermittent, at rest, during effort, during sleep, in dedicated rooms.

The CRESI, a sustainable and responsible research center

• Materials: bio-based insulators, linoleum, wood-aluminum joinery, interior wood joinery, wooden framework walls.
• 318 m2 of photovoltaic panels (72 kWc).
• Label E+C- : level E3C1 for exemplary energy efficiency.

The CRESI, key figures

• 6 304 m2 of research and innovation spaces.
• 20 million euros invested by the public authorities (State, Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Region, Grenoble Alpes Métropole, UGA).
• 5 key institutions in health and sciences (UGA, INSERM, CNRS, INRIA, CHUGA) & 3 laboratories (HP2, TIMC, AGEIS) gathered.