Danone Research – Daniel Carasso Centre, France (Palaiseau), is the Danone principal research centre. Its mission: designing appetizing balanced products procuring a health benefit. The centre acts as a strong catalyst for innovation for all the group's Fresh Dairy Products and Waters brands worldwide, in relation with local R&D teams to better understand and take into account the geographical specificities.
    
Principal business and expertise:
- Studying probiotic bacteria and their interaction with the human intestinal
  microbiota
- Clinical research
- Human physiology and nutrition
- Sensorial analysis and consumer’s behavior science
- Product prototyping, etc.
    
Key figures:
- 360 scientists: nutritionists, microbiologists, molecular biologists, biochemists,
  specialists in sensory evaluation and the study of consumer behavior, etc.
- 200 scientific partnerships

Danone Research – Centre for Specialised Nutrition in Wageningen, The Netherlands , is a state-of-the-art life sciences innovation centre for the development of new baby and medical nutrition product concepts. We create formulas that provide clinically substantiated health benefits to vulnerable consumers with nutritional difficulties: infants, toddlers, elderly and patients.
    
Core expertise: the understanding of the complex interaction between nutrition, biological processes and disease mechanisms in the human body.
    
Key figures:
- Over 200 experts in life sciences and technology : immunologists, microbiologists,   neuroscientists, nutritionists, product technologists,etc.
- Large scientific & industrial network of research institutes, universities, hospitals
  and suppliers.