NRC-CHU Sainte-Justine Collaborative Unit for Translational Research

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre (CR-CHUSJ) have formalized their long-standing research relationship with the creation of the NRC-CHU Sainte-Justine Collaborative Unit for Translational Research (CUTR).

The NRC-CHU Sainte-Justine CUTR aims to combine and synergize expertise and technologies to accelerate translation of discoveries to the patient by improving diagnostics, discovering innovative treatments and modernizing clinical analytics.

Collaborators

• NRC's Medical Devices Research Centre
• NRC's Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre
• Sainte-Justine University Hospital Centre

Areas of focus

• Immuno-oncology
• Perinatology
• Rare diseases
• Micro-nano biodevices
• Therapeutics diseases

Research expertise

• Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for personalized medicine for mother and child
• Discovery and clinical research
• Bio-analytical micro and nano devices, molecular diagnostics
• Antibodies, vaccines, cell and gene therapy, biomanufacturing

Press Release

• From the laboratory to the patient : The Collaborative Unit for Translational Research, a unique patient-focussed partnership between the NRC and CHU Sainte-Justine