CHU de Quebec Research Center is part of the CHU de Quebec and is an affiliate of Universite Laval.The center brings together the research activities in the CHUL, H™tel-Dieu de Quebec, Enfant-Jesus, Saint-Franois 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.