Housed
in the Building of the esteemed
Department
of Chemistry/Biochemistry (with world renown faculty
members from various specialties and
cutting-edge expertise), the Novel Drug and Vaccine
Delivery Systems Facility is divided into specialized areas
and equipped with a suite of state-of-the-art instruments that
permit us to undertake a wide variety of experimental
investigations for education and research. The facility is
devoted to activities in Chemistry/Biochemistry, Molecular
Biology, Pharmacology (Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics),
Immunology, Microbiology, and Biophysics. The unit has also
access to shared laboratory area, Cell Culture Facility. an
Analytical Core Facility, Electron Microscopy Facility, NMR
spectroscopy, ESR spectroscopy, Darkroom, a Radioisotope
Laboratory, Molecular Modeling Computing Facility, a Computer
Facility and Animal Care Facility. The facility is linked with
the
Laurentian University Library,
and on-line reference data bases, such as, SciFinder Scholar
2004, Medline and Current Contents.
The
Novel Drug and Vaccine Delivery Systems Facility is available
to the academic and non-academic community to tackle a wide
variety of scientific problems.
Our
areas of expertise include:
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Design,
Formulation and Characterizations of Novel Drug and
Vaccines |
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Pharmacokinetic,
Biodistribution and Pharmacodynamic Studies |
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Acute,
Sub-acute and Chronic toxicity testing of Drugs, Vaccines
and chemicals |
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Toxicokinetic
studies |
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Animal
Model Developments |
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Chemical
& Biochemical analysis of chemicals in biological
fluids |
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Biochemistry,
Microbiology and Pharmacology of Cystic Fibrosis |
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Biomaterial-related
infection in medical device implants |
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Antisense
therapy |
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Aerosol
Delivery |
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Antibiotic
resistance |
|
Pseudomonas
aeruginosa Pathophysiology |
|
Delivery
Systems |
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Microencapsulation |
