Research Units

McGill is home to 35 Board Approved Research Units (e.g., research centres and institutes). They are excellent indicators of research strengths and are vehicles for promoting and facilitating collaboration. Through their research activities, partnerships, collaborations, and opportunities for students, most of our centres and institutes are leaders in their respective fields. 

On this page: Agriculture and Environmental Sciences | Arts | Desautels Faculty of Management | Education | Engineering | Dental Medicine and Oral Health | Law | Medicine and Health Sciences | Science | Schulich School of Music | Provisional Research Units

Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences

• Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment (CINE)

Faculty of Arts

• Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CIRM)
• Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS)
• Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF)
• Centre on Population Dynamics (CPD)
• Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC)
• McGill Centre for Society, Technology and Development (STANDD)
• Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds

Desautels Faculty of Management 

• McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) 

Faculty of Education

• Institute for Human Development and Well Being (IHDW) 

Faculty of Engineering

• Brace Centre for Water Resources Management (Brace) 
• Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) 
• McGill Metals Processing Centre (MMPC) 

Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences

• Centre for Bone and Periodontal Research 

Faculty of Law

• Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP)
• Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP) 
• Centre for Research in Air and Space Law 
• Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law 

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

• Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain (AECRP) 
• Azrieli Centre for Autism Research (ACAR) 
• Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine (CAMBAM) 
• Centre for Research in Reproduction and Development (CRRD) 
• Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music (CRBLM)
• Centre for Structural Biology Research (CRBS) 
• Cystic Fibrosis Translational Research Centre (CFTRc)
• J.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical Diseases
• Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health (Ludmer Center)
• McGill Centre for Studies in Aging (MCSA)
• McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer (MCTRC)
• McGill Centre for Viral Diseases (MCVD) 
• McGill International TB Centre (MTBC)
• McGill University Research Centre on Complex Traits (MRCCT)

Faculty of Science

• Centre for the Physics of Materials (CPM)
• Trottier Space Institute (TSI)

Schulich School of Music

• Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology (CIRMMT) 

Provisional Research Units

The Research Units below are in the process of becoming officially recognized and currently have Provisional Research Unit status.

• Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy (MTD)
• Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC)
• Centre for Genomics and Policy (CGP)
• McGill Antimicrobial Resistance Centre (AMRC)
• McGill Centre for Microbiome Research
• McGill Centre for RNA Sciences (MCRS)
• McGill Centre for Innovation in Storage and Conversion of Energy (McISCE)
• McGill Research Centre for Cannabis (MCRC)
• Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center (MDPRC)
• Sylvain Adams Sports Science Institute/Sports Science Research Institute (SASSI)