Cutting-Edge Research Facilities

USciences offers state of the art research core facilities that are available to USciences faculty, off-campus faculty and commercial partners, including but not limited to:

Industrial Pharmacy Lab (IPHL):

The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy Industrial Pharmacy Laboratory provides a broad spectrum of capabilities such as:

• Preformulation
• Formulation development
• Controlled/sustained release dosage form development
• Drug delivery systems development
• Analytical method development and validation

For more information on the IPHL available equipment and research capabilities please contact Dr. Pardeep Gupta.

West Center For Computational Chemistry and Drug Design:

The "West Center" is focused on the application of computational methods to chemical and biological problems, as well as on the development of more powerful computational tools to improve the ability of these methods to produce real world answers. Our expertise includes Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD), Bioinformatics, Structure Activity Relationship (SAR), Computational Method Development and Application (CMDA), Molecular Dynamics of Biological and Chemical Processes (MDBCP), and Quantum Mechanics (QM).

For more information please visit the West Center for Computational Chemistry and Drug Design homepage.

Bioimaging Resources:

USciences Bioimaging capabilities include:

• Upright and Inverted Transmitted Light Imaging
• Phase Contrast and DIC Imaging
• Fixed and Live-Cell Epifluorescence
• Upright Multicolor Widefield Epifluorescence
• Spinning Disk Confocal Imaging
• Laser Scanning Confocal Imaging
• Microinjection and Micromanipulators for Cell Injection and Gradient Generation
• 3 Channel Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy (TIRFM)
• 4 Channel XY Galvo Photoactivation Point Scanner
• 3 Channel Spectral Confocal System

For more information on available bioimaging equipment and research capabilities please visit the Department of Biological Sciences Research Facilities page.

Chemistry Resources:

The current capabilities of the Analytical Services division include:

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) – 1H, 13C, 19F, 31P, 11B; 1-D and all common 2-D spectra; variable temperature
• Mass Spectrometry (MS) – nominal and high resolution; various ionization techniques
• Surface Analysis – atomic force microscopy, ellipsometry, contact angle measurements
• Spectroscopic Characterization – Ultra-Violet/Visible, Infra-Red, Fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy, including in microplate format
• Calorimetry – isothermal titration and differential scanning
• Chromatography – high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), Gas chromatography (GC), Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC)

The current capabilities of the Cell Culture division include:

• Mammalian Cell Culture – Large-capacity CO2 incubation

For more information on available equipment and research capabilities please visit the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry or contact Drs. John Tomsho or Nathan Baird.

For more information on USciences research facilities and capabilities, please contact:

Jean-Francois Jasmin, PhD
Associate Provost for Research and Graduate Education
University of the Sciences
600 South 43rd Street
McNeil Building, Room 104
215-596-8512
j.jasmin@usciences.edu