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The '''Institut de recherche biomédicale des armées''' is a restricted military medical research establishment in France, for all three armed services.

==History==
Before 2009, each service had its own research facility, but all three were combined as an organisation on 1 March 2009. It was formed from the Formed from CRSSA: Centre de recherches du service de santé des armées at La Tronche, IMTSSA: Institut de médecine tropicale du service de santé des armées at Marseilles, and IMNSSA: Institut de médecine navale du Service de santé des armées at Toulon.

Jean-Marc Todeschini opened the new site on 18 February 2016 at Brétigny-sur-Orge.

==Structure==
The director is Dominique Felten.<ref>[https://www.defense.gouv.fr/content/download/445826/6993815/file/DP%2520Inauguration%2520IRBA.pdf Inauguration in 2016]</ref>

The site is blurred on Google Maps, due to secrecy. It is next to the D19 road.

===Research===
* [[Medicine:Arbovirus|Arbovirus]]es, [[Biology:Orthopoxvirus|orthopoxvirus]] and [[Medicine:Anthrax|anthrax]]
* Chemical [[Chemistry:Blister agent|blister agent]]s (vesicants)
* [[Chemistry:Organophosphorus compound|Organophosphate]] [[Chemistry:Neurotoxicity|neurotoxic]] agents, and [[Medicine:Organophosphate poisoning|medical countermeasures]]
* [[Biology:Effects of nuclear explosions on human health|Biological effects]] of [[Physics:Ionizing radiation|ionizing radiation]]
* [[Cognitive ergonomics]]

It conducts research into aviation medicine, chemical warfare, and biological hazards with highly-contagious diseases, so cannot make this research public. It works with [[Organization:French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission|French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission]] (CEA), CNRS, Inserm, [[Organization:Institut national de la recherche agronomique|Inra]], the [[Organization:Pasteur Institute|Pasteur Institute]], [[Organization:Agence nationale de la recherche|Agence nationale de la recherche]], Alliance nationale pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé, Direction générale de l'armement (DGA), Pierre and Marie Curie University, and Paris Descartes University.

===Facilities===
* Human centrifuge ([[Physics:High-G training|high-G training]])
* Environmental chamber
* Hypobaric chamber (altitude chamber)
* Biosafety level 4 laboratory
* FEI Titan Krios cryogenic electron microscope

==See also==
* École du service de santé des armées, the main military medical school in France
* RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine
* [[Organization:Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute|Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute]]
* [[Organization:Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire|Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire]]
* [[Physics:Radioactivity in the life sciences|Radioactivity in the life sciences]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.defense.gouv.fr/sante/notre-expertise/recherche-biomedicale/recherche-biomedicale French government]

[[Category:Radiobiology]]

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