CHU de Québec Research Center is part of the CHU de Québec and is an affiliate of Université Laval.The center brings together the research activities in the CHUL, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Enfant-Jésus, Saint-François d'Assise and Saint-Sacrement Hospitals.

Laval University’s Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (IBIS) was created to meet the new millennium challenge: understand the complexity behind biological systems.