Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Program
The department maintains a highly visible research program with emphasis in cancer biology, toxicology, immunopharmacology, neuropharmacology and general pharmacology. The activities of department researchers have long been supported by a wide range of funding sources. In recent years, these have included the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute of Environmental Health Safety (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office for Alternative Medicine (OAM), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), American Cancer Society (ACS), American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), Susan Komen Foundation, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA) Foundation, American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE), AriZeke Pharmaceuticals, Lazzara Charitable Foundation, and the WSU Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Center.
Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) students who are interested in research can also participate in laboratory research under direction of department researchers.
Research and service units which are housed in the department include the Cancer Prevention and Research Center (CPRC), the U.S. Transuranium and Uranium Registries (USTUR), which includes the National Human Radiobiology Tissue Repository (NHRTR), and the National Radiobiology Archives (NRA), and the Wegner Hall Vivarium.
Research Facilities
The following resources are available to the Pharmaceutical Sciences faculty located in Wegner Hall:
Animal Facility:
BSL2 animal facility is available, capable of housing rats, nude and intact mice. The facility is cared for by personnel from the Laboratory Animal Resource Centre. Budget support for the animal care facility is provided by per diem charges. These rates are reviewed annually, and adjusted as necessary. Per diem rates cover the cost of basic care only (standard diet feed, labor, and bedding). Management funding and maintenance funding for land, vehicles, equipment and maintenance personnel is provided by state funding.
Specialized Equipment:
Epifluorescent microscope equipped with an environmental control chamber suitable for particle tracking and subcellular localization studies.
Zeta/Particle sizer equipped with multi purpose titrator (Malvern ZS90, MPT-2).
General Equipment and Facilities
LC/Mass, Dark room, walk-in cold room, Milli-Q water system, autoclave, ice machine, plate reader, low- high- and ultra-high speed centrifuges, rotors, scintillation counters, gel imaging system, film developer, RT-PCR and PCR machines, and inverted microscopes.
Safety cabinets for animal and cell culture studies, CO2 incubators, liquid nitrogen tanks, -80oC and -30oC freezers, bench-top centrifuges, UV spectrophotometer fridge, water bath, shakers, gel electrophoresis and western blot analysis apparatus, analytical balances, refrigerated shaking incubator (5-70oC) and a speedvac dryer.
Core Facilities
Located on the campus of Washington State University, variety of core facilities are available which provide services to investigators.
For more information regarding the Center for Integrated Biotechnology and Center for Reproductive Biology Core Facilities please visit: www.biotechnology.wsu.edu and http://www.reproduction.wsu.edu/2FrontPages/coreLaboratories.html
Summer Undergraduate Research FellowshipThis annual research program provides hands-on research experience for undergraduate students who have demonstrated outstanding scientific aptitude and an interest in a research career in the biomedical or pharmaceutical sciences. Applications are accepted each year in February and March. |