Founded: 1960
Full Time: 26
Part Time: 3
Budget: 1,025,000.00
Director: Frederick A. Christian
P.O. Box 9921
Baton Rouge, LA 70813
Telephone: 504/771-4240 FAX: 504/771-3607 E-Mail: fchristi@subrvm.subr.edu
Research Areas:
The Health Research Center is the biomedical research center for the University. The activities of the Health Research Center are designed to advance knowledge through scientific research and education. For all practical purposes and intent, the activities of the Health Research Center are designed to strengthen, enrich and promote the academic programs of the participating departments of the College of Sciences and the other colleges of the University through scholarly and productive biomedical research efforts, seminar presentations, symposia and community services. The purposes of the Health Research Center are as follows: 1) to conduct basic and applied research in bio-medical sciences and to promote and encourage productive research, 2) to help faculty members to secure financial support for research and to provide both human and physical resources for the same, 3) to provide research training in the basic biomedical sciences for the graduate and undergraduate students, and 4) to render helpful public services t the Southern University community on matters related to the human health and health related issues. Some of our research projects deal with the problems of pollutions and the effects of drugs and their impacts on human health, cancer related projects, as well as social health problems.
Areas of Expertise:
Our research expertise includes a multidisciplinary approach to research efforts in the basic biomedical sciences. Additional expertise include purification and analysis of naturally occurring proteins, research on phytoestrogens and cancer, molecular and cellular toxicology, research on peptide synthesis and applications, toxicological effects of pesticides on some Louisina aquatic life.
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
Transmission Electron Microscope Facility, Small Laboratory Animal Facility, and the Scanning Electron Microscope. Both the transmission and the scanning electron microscopes allow us to study ultrastructures of organisms and macro-molecular. The small laboratory animal facility allows us to breed and keep such animals for research purposes.
Research Equipment:
1. PCR (polymerase chain reaction) instrument (Perkin Elmer)
2. Fluorescence and bright field microscope with DIC capabilities
(Zeiss)
3. DNA synthesizer (Beckman)
4. scanning electron microscope facility
5. transmission electron microscope
6. capillary electrophoresis equipment with laser induced
fluorescence
(Beckman) and capillary electrophoresis (Biorad)
7. luminescence spectrophotomemter (LS50B)
8. UV-visible spectrophotometers (2 each)
9. image analysis system
10. radiation studies facility (scintillation counter and gamma
counter by (Packard)
11. HPLC instruments (Waters and Beckman)
12. protein purificaiton instrument (Beckman)
13. tissue culture facility
14. laser light scattering instrument for protein molecular
weights (Wyatt Technology)
15. ultracentrifuge LE-80 and L5-65 (Beckman)
16. biological safety cabines (Baker and Forma)
Keywords:
0710030 Biomedical Research/Multidisciplinary
0720005 Biomedical Research Training
0760000 Molecular/Cellular Entities
1002000 Biological Sciences
1002008 Biology Molecular
1003000 Chemical Sciences
1007000 Environmental Studies
1002032 Parasitology
1002045 Viral Studies (Virology)
1003006 Chemical Synthesis
1003010 Chemistry Inorganic
1003012 Chemistry Organic
1007001 Environmental Biology
1007002 Environmental Chemistry
1007009 Toxicology
1002029 Mycology
0710110 Reproductive Endocrinology