Research Themes: Introduction

The major research themes developed by the RRSE are presented here: Biomarkers, Drinking Water Contaminants and Pharmacokinetic Modelisation, Environmental Epidemiology, and Toxicogenomics. In each of these themes, you can access the activities and the tools developed as well as current research.


Here is a list of current projects in the various units and platforms.

• Obtaining a grant from the Funds of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, CFI: Laboratoire d'analyse des modulateurs physiologiques.
  
  Principal researcher: Michel Fournier. Participation of Daniel Cyr, person in charge of the Toxicogenomic unit .



• Obtaining of a grant in the NSERC strategic program: A Novel Pharmacokinetic-Gene Expression Model for Toxicological Risk Assessment of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals.
  
  Two units are associated with this project: the Drinking Water Contaminants and Pharmacokinetic Modelisation platform and the Toxicogenomic unit.



• Obtaining of a grant by the Canadian Cancer Etiology Research Network (CCERN): Comparing Methods of Obtaining Exposure Data in Epidemiological Studies Involving Children and Pregnant Women.
  
  Two infrastructures are associated with this project: the Drinking Water Contaminants and Pharmacokinetic Modelisation platform and the Environmental Epidemiology platform.
  The aim of this project is to develop new exposure-measurement methods for population studies. The project focuses on analyzing the quality of conventional epidemiological methods in order to determine contaminant exposure by comparing them to more complex tools, namely physiologically based toxicokinetic models (PBTK).



• Obtaining of a grant by the Action concertée pour le soutien stratégique à la promotion et à la consolidation de la recherche sur l'environnement rural: Quality of public sources of drinking water in a rural environment: impact of intensive agriculture, and protection strategy, to identify the main origins of contamination of drinking water sources in a rural environment.
  
  This project will supply data that may be used in the context of the Drinking Water Contaminants and Pharmacokinetic Modelisation platform’s activities.