Doping Control Laboratory
VBS provides a wide range of services to meet the needs of the university research community and healthcare, research, and biotechnology companies. Apart from the technical services it offers, VBS provides high-level training in bioimaging.
The National Experimental Biology Laboratory (NEBL) provides animal care and housing services to the university community and outside companies. Its qualified personnel (preclinical scientists, veterinarians, and veterinary technicians) also offers expertise in preclinical research in a multitude of animal species, including the development of new vaccines and drugs against emerging or progressive diseases. The NEBL is the only laboratory at a Canadian university to be accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC).
Located in Laval on the INRS – Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie campus, the Electron Microscopy Platform (EM) has been offering you a range of high-quality imaging services since 1963. The platform makes it possible to carry out research using transmission and scanning electron microscopy technologies to meet the needs of universities, scientific communities and health, research or biotechnology industries. In addition to the technical services offered, the EMP allows the training of a high-level succession in life imaging.
The research program aims the discovery of new therapeutic molecules
The objective of the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Applied to Health (C2AS) is to support research projects in the field of human, environmental and animal health that require expertise in analytical chemistry. The laboratory develops targeted analytical methods for measuring molecules of interest in various biological, environmental and food matrices, and in particular environmental pollutants (pesticides, heavy metals, etc.). C2AS has an analytical platform containing LC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS and ICP-MS mass spectrometers, which currently enable targeted analysis of molecules of interest.
Our platform facilitates the exploration of protein-protein interactions (PPI) within living cells, utilizing a diverse range of high-throughput methods. We harness the power of the Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET) technique for the precise quantification of proteins of interest, including, for example, pathogen/host protein pairs. What distinguishes our method is its capability to continuously monitor these interactions in real time within living cells for extended durations. This versatile approach supports a wide array of applications, including PPI validation, time-lapse PPI cell quantification, assessment of affinity in mutant PPI pairs, PPI competition studies, and screening for PPI modulators in drug discovery.
It allows scientists to conduct cutting edge research in cellular and molecular biology, including real-time observation and study of cellular and subcellular interactions involved in the transmission of bacterial, parasitic, and viral diseases.
It operates in the field of medicinal chemistry, particularly the development of multitasking organometallic therapeutics
The Sequencing Platform is intended to strengthen research activities and public health response related to genomic sequencing within the institute and regional collaborators.
It has a crosscutting role that supports the research units and testing laboratories of IPC with various materials, including documents such as standard operating procedures (SOPs), and software to monitor the samples