RESEARCH

Biomedical Research

Our basic and applied biomedical research, with a high component of innovation, allows us to obtain and develop biotechnological and pharmaceutical products, with added and competitive value, aimed at solving health problems, aimed at cancer therapy, inflammation, infectious, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases, as well as healing and cytoprotection, taking into account environmental sustainability. For this we have the departments of Vaccines, Pharmaceuticals, Systems Biology, Chemistry-Physics, and Control of Scientific-Technical Activity.

Agricultural Research

Our agricultural biotechnological research responds to the need to increase agricultural and livestock production in Cuba, for the sustainable satisfaction of the food demands of the Cuban population and the decrease in food imports. They are aimed at obtaining vaccines, veterinary drugs, bioproducts, improved crops applicable to agriculture and intensive crops and obtaining industrial enzymes, aware of our responsibility with human safety and protection of the environment.

Preclinical Research and Animal Experimentation

We are responsible for the design and development of the preclinical programs of the different products developed at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, and we are in charge of guaranteeing the use and care of laboratory animals to support research, biotechnological development and control of product quality, under the supervision of the Institutional Committee for the Use and Care of Laboratory Animals (CICUAL / CIGB).

We are governed by national and international regulations, and we comply with the ethical principles related to the use of laboratory animals and quality requirements, through good preclinical practices and good practices of the medical-pharmaceutical industry, applied to the use of laboratory animals. All these processes are supported by a documentary system that includes a program for the use of the laboratory animal in the CIGB, an environmental monitoring program, and duly approved operational procedures for all activities, which constitute powerful tools to guarantee repeatable, reliable results. and insurance.

According to the sanitary hygiene status, our animals are kept in barrier areas (with controlled conditions), which have high-tech equipment, with a rigorous automated control of the environmental parameters of temperature, relative humidity and differential pressure. . Our scientific staff and specialists are highly qualified, have more than 15 years of experience, and are trained in different subjects of biological sciences and laboratory animal science, such as animal reproduction, toxicology, pharmacology, histopathology, environmental safety, bioethics. and immunology.

Clinical Research

Our clinical investigations are in charge of coordinating, designing, controlling the execution and termination of clinical studies and pharmacovigilance with pharmaceutical products, with the aim of obtaining health records in Cuba and other countries, to offer new therapeutic alternatives for diseases that constitute health problems and guarantee the subsequent commercial activity. We aspire to maintain excellence, the spirit of advancement and leadership in clinical research activity, to continue to achieve the highest quality standards, with satisfactory results to insert our products in the most demanding markets.