Drug Delivery Systems

Services

  • Design, fabrication and characterization of tailor made drug-loaded micro/nanoparticulated systems.
  • Design, fabrication and characterization of scaffolds and injectable gels.
  • Biodistribution studies.
  • Pharmacokinetic studies (ADME-TOX).
  • Drug stability and release kinetics.
  • Protein and polymer radiolabelling.
  • Rheological characterization.
  • Cytotoxicity and biocompatibility studies.
  • Histomorphological and immunohistochemical studies.

Facilities

  • Cell culture room equiped with laminar flow hoods, incubator, water bath, centrifuges, autoclave,…
  • Inverted fluorescence microscope
  • Microtome
  • Plate reader
  • Vacuum pumps, syringe pumps and peristaltic pumps
  • Freeze-dryer
  • Chemical extraction hood
  • Analytic balances
  • Ovens, shakers, thermostatic plates, ultrasound probe, ultrasound bath, homogeneizer
  • UV-visible spectrophotometer
  • Microfluidic set up
  • Rotary evaporator
  • Fridges, frezeers (-80 ºC, -20 ºC)
  • Automatic and semi-automatic pipettes
  • Access to animal care facilities (the head of the animal facilities is member of the group)
  • Access to the radiactivity facility (the head of the reseach group is the supervisor of the facility)