Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale
government medical research center in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Institut National de la Recherche Biomédicale (INRB) is the national medical research organization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The responsible ministry is the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technology.
The National Biomedical Research Institute (INRB) was founded in 1984. It is a 70,000 m² establishment. It has been a collaborating center of the World Health Organization since 2018, headed by Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, MD, PhD, and serving as a national biomedical research laboratory for the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is a multidisciplinary institute which collectively has hundreds of years of experience in the identification, treatment and prevention of diseases in the DRC. Its foundations are the performance of medical and biological analyzes, applied and translational research, surveillance of communicable diseases and the promotion of professional growth and development. The INRB has continuously developed and trained high-quality researchers and produced exceptional results. More recently, it has made concrete efforts in terms of control, prevention, and research in response to the current Ebola epidemic.
It has continuously brought it's expertise to the government of the DRC in the areas of disease surveillance, prevention and intervention. In 30 years of existence, the INRB has quickly become recognized worldwide and has played an essential role in tropical health research.
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