France

Legal status	PERMISSIVE WITH RESTRICTIONS
Key organization	National Consultative Bioethics Committee for Health and Life Sciences (CCNE)
Policy	hESC research using IVF embryos of up to 8 days is allowed, providing that the medical rationale is well founded, no other means are suitable to research the issue and informed consent is obtained. hESC imports are authorised. Cloning is prohibited.
Legislation	LOI nº2011-814 du 7 julliet 2011 relative a la Bioethique
Legislation Link	Act 2011-814 on Bioethics (2011)
Embryonic stem cell research policy	Only allowed in exceptional cases and only with surplus embryos.
Research with embryo	Only allowed in exceptional cases and only with surplus embryos.
Embryo donation and cryopreservation	Embryo and gametes donation is allowed
Somatic cell nuclear transfer	SCNT is forbidden

Projects

• Modeling and treating retinal dgenerative disease
• Neuronal model of genetic focal epilepsy
• Optical imaging of retinal function for gene and cell therapies
• Toward a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics and mechanisms of X chromosome inactivation in Humans
• Training European Experts in Multiscale Studies of Neural Crest Development and Disorders: from Patient to Model Systems and Back again

Provider

• Cellectis
• CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS- Délégation Ile de France-Villejuif)
• Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou
• Imagine Institute
• Imagine Institute / INSERM U1163
• INSERM
• INSERM - Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier
• INSERM - Institute for Regenerative Medecine & Biotherapy U1183
• INSERM - Institute for Regenerative Medecine and Biotherapy
• INSERM - Ontogeny of primordial germ cells
• INSERM - PhyMedExp Inserm U1046
• INSERM - PrimaStem
• INSERM - Stem Cell and Brain Research - U1208 INSERM
• INSERM U1166-Institute of Cardiometabolism And Nutrition
• Institut Curie
• INSTITUT DE LA VISION
• Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle (ICM)
• INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTÉ ET DE LA RECHERCHE MÉDICALE
• Institut Pasteur
• l’institut du thorax
• Marseille Medical Genetics Center - MMG
• PHENOCELL
• Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences
• Université Paris-Sud 11
• Université Paris-Sud 11 - ESTeam Paris Sud
• University Hospital of Montpellier

hESC Cell lines

• UPSFRe001-A
• UHOMe001-A
• INSRMe001-A
• INSRMe002-A
• INSRMe003-A
• INSRMe004-A
• INSRMe005-A
• INSRMe006-A
• INSRMe007-A
• INSRMe008-A
• INSRMe009-A
• INSRMe010-A
• INSRMe011-A
• INSRMe012-A
• INSRMe013-A
• INSRMe014-A
• INSRMe015-A
• INSRMe016-A
• INSRMe017-A
• INSRMe018-A
• UPSFRe002-A
• UPSFRe003-A

hiPSC Cell lines

• UPSFRi001-A
• UPSFRi002-A
• UPSFRi004-A
• UPSFRi005-A
• UPSFRi005-A-1
• UPSFRi006-A
• UPSFRi007-A
• UPSFRi008-A
• UPSFRi009-A
• IRMBi001-A
• IRMBi002-A
• IDVi001-A
• IDVi002-A
• UPSFRi004-A-1
• UHOMi001-A
• PCIi001-A
• PCIi003-A
• PCIi004-A
• PCIi005-A
• REGUi001-A
• INSRMi002-A
• INSRMi003-A
• INSRMi004-A
• INSRMi005-A
• INSRMi006-A
• INSRMi007-A
• IDVi003-A
• IDVi005-A
• INSRMi008-A
• IMAGINi004-A
• IMAGINi005-A
• IMAGINi009-A
• IMAGINi011-A
• IMAGINi013-A
• IMAGINi021-A
• IMAGINi022-A
• PCIi007-A
• PCIi008-A
• PCIi009-A
• PCIi010-A
• PCIi011-A
• PCIi012-A
• PCIi015-A
• PCIi016-A
• PCIi017-A
• PCIi018-A
• CEBi001-A
• PCIi019-A
• PCIi020-A
• PCIi021-A
• PCIi022-A
• PCIi023-A
• PCIi024-A
• PCIi025-A
• PCIi026-A
• PCIi027-A
• SBRIi001-A
• SBRIi002-A
• AAKIPSi001-A
• AAKIPSi002-A
• PCIi029-A
• PCIi030-A
• PCIi031-A
• PCIi032-A
• PCIi033-A
• ICANi001-A
• ICANi001-A-1
• ICANi002-A
• ICANi002-A-1
• IPi001-A