Research centres & facilities

Affiliated research centres

Our faculty and graduate students are actively involved in ongoing collaboration with other departments and institutions supporting impactful research.

Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology

Canada’s first and only research centre dedicated to the development of foundational technologies in synthetic biology and ways to solve emerging needs in environmental protection, sustainable manufacturing, agriculture, food production and drug development.

Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics

A state-of-the-art core genomics facility assembled along with the computational resources necessary to sequence, process and store the genetic information of various organisms.

Centre for Biological Applications of Mass Spectrometry

CBAMS is a cutting edge facility that supports researchers and provides graduate students enrolled in "omics" sciences with valuable hands-on training.

Centre for Microscopy and Cellular Imaging

Provides members of Concordia University with access to advanced fluorescence microscopes.

Facilities

In the award-winning SP building on the Loyola campus, the department has access to:

19+ teaching laboratories

Undergraduate students can get hands-on with equipment under supervision

66+ research laboratory rooms

Graduate students with permissions and a key card can conduct research in research labs run by faculty members.