The National Biomedical Research Institute (INRB), founded in 1984, is a 70,000 m² establishment. It has been a collaborating center of the World Health Organization since 2018, led by Professor Muyembe Tamfum, MD, Ph., Which serves as the national biomedical research laboratory for the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ). It is a multidisciplinary institute that collectively has hundreds of years of experience in both identifying, treating and preventing disease in the DRC. Its foundations are the performance of medical and biological analyzes, applied and translational research, the surveillance of communicable diseases and the promotion of professional growth and development.