The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (The Institute) is a world-renowned hospital-based health research centre. Located in Montreal, Quebec, the Institute is the research arm of the McGill University Health Centre affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University. The Institute offers a dynamic multidisciplinary research environment that fosters collaboration and leverages discovery aimed at advancing precision health across the life course.
The Institute was built to facilitate investigator-initiated and discovery-driven research that creates new knowledge in healthcare research. This involves fundamental biomedical research, patient-oriented and applied clinical research, research on health services and health systems, as well as population and health promotion research, including societal and cultural effects on health.
Role within AIRIS
The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre is a major centre of excellence in single-cell biology, omics, translational medicine, and combining computational biology with clinical cohorts. The RI-MUHC role in AIRIS centers on two research groups with expertise in computational biology and IBD. It leads tasks involving “Virtual Cells”, co-leads multiscale models, and leads the IBD use-case.