Hospices Civils de Lyon

French university hospital group serving Lyon and its region, with roots in the sixteenth century and today the second largest public hospital group in the country, running the Édouard Herriot, Lyon Sud, Croix-Rousse, cardiology and neurology hospitals and the mother and child hospital. Provides the full range of specialist and highly specialised care with transplantation, oncology, neurosciences, cardiology and paediatrics, is the teaching hospital of Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, and runs a regional pharmacovigilance centre, a poison and toxicovigilance centre, its own pharmacy and laboratories and a large clinical research and trials organisation.