The Injury Repair Recovery (IRR) Program is unique in Canada because of its multidisciplinary culture in which more than 50 basic and clinical scientists, with their trainees and research staff, work together around the foci of surgery and trauma in teams and shared facilities. Their work spans molecular and cellular research, genetics, tissue engineering, implant design, innovative techniques and technologies, and pre-clinical validation with clinical outcomes in disease.
This exceptional environment aims to foster research that avoids or mitigates the impact of trauma, reducing the patient’s decline in function, speeding up the recovery phase, and minimizing the residual impact, as well as rehabilitating the patient to a higher performance level.
The IRR Program is organized around three central themes, with distinctive aims:
