CDV includes more than 150 teams bringing together more than 500 researchers and teacher-researchers. These teams are located on several sites and institutes, the main ones of which are: the Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (IBPS), the Institut Curie, the Institut Pasteur, the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, the Institute of Myology of Pitié-Salpétrière, the marine biology stations of Sorbonne University.

List of teams by institute
List of researchers by alphabetical order