The Laboratory of Neurobiology, created in 1996, is a research unit of the French Ministry of Agriculture. It is established at the Alfort School of Veterinary Medicine, near Paris.
 
The research aims of the laboratory are to study canine and feline neuromuscular diseases and to evaluate therapeutic benefits provided by new strategies involving pharmacological, genic or cellular tools that had already showed encouraging results in in vitro experiments or on small animal models.
 
In order to accomplish this delicate work, the Laboratory of Neurobiology has established a platform of therapeutic assays associated with an intensive care unit allowing the medical maintenance of sick animals.
 
Thanks to subventions, and in particular the permanent support of the AFM, the laboratory has considerable human resources. Indeed, about twenty people coming from various horizons (veterinary, researcher, engineers, technicians of research and animal house technicians) collaborate on a daily basis.
 
Armed with its competences and its experiences, the Laboratory of Neurobiology occupies a choice place in the international scientific landscape: it’s one of the few teams having the handiness of large-size animal models and it develops multiple collaborations with high scientific quality research groups.
 
In parallel, the Laboratory of Neurobiology contributes to a quality teaching taking mainly part in the training of the Alfort School of Veterinary Medicine.