The Pharmacy Research lab is designed to allow faculty and Pharm.D. candidates to conduct their research projects. Instruments in the lab include the HPLC systems which are equipped with a variety of detectors (absorbance, PDA, electrochemical, fluorescence, conductivity, refractive index) enabling their use for a variety of applications. In addition, the lab is also equipped with a freeze dryer, incubators and a centrifuge apparatus.
The Pharmaceutical Analysis lab is designed to familiarize pharmacy students with different techniques used in pharmaceutical analysis. These techniques include those used in pharmaceutical industry such as spectroscopic, chromatographic, enzymatic and biotechnology methods. For this purpose, the lab is equipped with an HPLC, a GC, a dissolution apparatus, an FT-IR spectrophotometer, an ELISA, an electrophoresis, a microplate reader and a PCR.
The NMR and GC-MS lab is mainly used by faculty and contains a 300 MHz NMR spectrometer suitable to run different 1D and 2D NMR (homo and heteronuclear) experiments. There are two GC-MS system, one of which is equipped with a purge and trap system. The GM-MS systems are used to separate and identify volatile compounds in plants and biological fluids.
In the Compounding Laboratory students learn the fundamental techniques used for the extemporaneous preparation of dosage forms, as part of the requirements of Dosage Forms I and Dosage Forms II courses. The laboratory deals with the formulation, preparation, handling and evaluation of pharmaceutical products.
The lab includes the preparation of drug product using traditional approaches (mortar and pestle, spatula and slab) as well as modern technology. Basic equipments include water bath, hot plate, magnetic stirrer, oven, electronic balance and vortex. More sophisticated equipments (optical microscope, sieve shaker, planetary mixer, homogenizer, fluidized-bed dryer, tablet press, hardness tester (also measures the thickness and diameter of the tablet), friabilator and disintegration apparatus) are also available.
The Pharmacy Dispensing Laboratory supports course instruction on the proper techniques and skills required to safely and accurately distribute drug products to patients. Emphasis is on computerized patient record keeping, patient counseling, finding errors, and omission in prescriptions, communication with other health care providers and patients. Thus, the dispensing laboratory is designed to mimic a community pharmacy. It includes shelved medications, storage cabinets, counseling area desks, auxiliary medication labels, personal computers, a printer, a bar code reader, and pharmacy textbooks.