The Laboratory for Drug Delivery is equipped with:
- Two Agilent 1100 HPLCs with diode array and ChemStation software, autosamplers, UV/vis and fluorescent detectors
- Ten water jacketed Franz diffusion cell module
- Leica® Cryotome instrument (Leica® CM1850, Nussloch, Germany)/li>
- Mettler Toledo pH meter with In Lab® micro and surface pH electrodes for skin surface pH studies
- Light and stereomicroscopes
- Vankel VK 7010 Dissolution Test Station with VK 8000 Sampling Station
- Buchler vortex evaporator
- Mettler electronic balances
- 8 foot chemical fume hood
- Revco chest freezers & Forma Scientific upright freezer, dishwashers and refrigerators
- Shared Biology Suite (Room 207, 720 sq.ft.) with four Biosafety II hoods is located adjacent to the LDD
- Double CO2 incubator, centrifuge apparatus
- Deionized water, vacuum, and compressed air facility
The CDR has access to:
- (Leica TCS S2 AOBS), TEM, SEM, skin and other tissue imaging (Raman confocal, etc.)
- NMRs, AFM-atomic force microscopy, LC-MS-liquid chromatography mass spectrometry and FTIR analytical techniques
- UV-Vis Spectroscopy
- GPC-gel permeation chromatography
- DSC-differential scanning calorimetry
- Mechanical tester with environmental chamber, quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring
- TGA-thermogravimetric analyzer, DMA-dynamic mechanical analyzer
- Polymer synthesis and characterization facility
- In-vivo studies facility
- Rheological and histological facilities
- Conference and event facilities in the Life Sciences building