Most drugs bind to specific targets inside the body, usually receptors or enzymes, and modulate their biological activities. Biochemical, molecular, and cellular techniques are used to help understand these dynamics and identify targets for the development of potential treatments for diabetes, cancer, and infectious, neurodegenerative, and cardiovascular diseases.
Our research teams are working to identify and synthesize molecules that can be used as therapeutic, biotechnological, or prophylactic agents against infections caused by viruses, bacteria, or parasites. This field of research draws on a network of expertise in biochemistry, microbiology, medicinal chemistry, and biophysics.
Medicinal chemistry
Medicinal chemistry is a growing specialty that involves several disciplines, including dynamic and structural biochemistry, pharmacology, physiology, and fine chemistry. Our research teams develop peptide antibiotics and thermosensitive, targeted drug delivery systems. They analyze and develop drug testing methods and develop screening tools and prevention agents.
Vaccines and immunomodulators
Vaccines remain the most effective way to fight infectious diseases. Several studies are under way to help control certain viral and bacterial infections. For instance, our research teams are developing vaccines from plant-based virus nanoparticles as well as immunomodulators for use as adjuvants in vaccines against influenza, hepatitis C, and cancer.
Doping control
Training openings for students or interns
Annie CastonguayBioorganometallic chemistry, Metals in medicine, and Catalysis
Molecular virology
Pharmacochemistry
Microbiology
Enzymatic engineering
Microbiology and immunology
Chemistry of carbohydrates and natural products
Immunology, virology and cancer
Doping control
Molecular virology and viral pathogenesis
Microbiology, biochemistry and RNA
Toxins and Antioxidants and Alzheimer's Disease
Viral neurological disease
Pregnancy and Toxicology
Genomic bacteriology and evolution
Microbial ecology of bioprocesses
