Montreal Chest Institute Living Lab

The Montreal Chest Institute (MCI) at the MUHC is a world leader in treating respiratory diseases. Now, the MCI is gearing up to deliver personalized medicine by transforming its clinics into a Living Laboratory.

What is a Living Lab?

A living lab is a place where patients, families and healthcare professionals work together to test and improve treatments, technologies and ways of providing care, made especially for YOU.

Personalized Medicine

The aim of the Living Lab is to bring together clinicians and researchers to develop new treatments and more personalized care for patients with respiratory diseases.

Resource for the Community

The Living lab is a resource accessible to all who work and study respiratory diseases at the Montreal Chest Institute.

Built for Better Care

Clinicians and researchers are working towards the same goal and with the help of patients new advances come be achieved.


The Respiratory Biobank

The Living Lab will collect your data and biological material to help us better understand respiratory diseases.

Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Work with different health professionals and clinical staff to provide the best of experience.

Innovating Research

Find out more about the exciting research being conducted at the MCI.

Creating a Bank of Data and Samples

A biobank holds clinical data as well as biological samples. It’s a valuable resource for researchers and supports both current and future projects.



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