Through a grant from the National Institutes of Health, Division of Research Resources, our facility has two state-of-the-art CD instruments, JASCO J815, operated as a shared facility.

The facility serves a variety of research projects. A major focus and area of local expertise is the analysis of biological and artificial lipid bilayer membranes (liposomes). DSC is particularly useful in the investigation of small-molecule/membrane interactions. TGA can be used to detect residual solvent in amorphous and crystalline solids, and to characterize some polymorphic states such as solvates.

The facility serves a variety of research projects involving protein structure, drug-protein interactions, biological membrane structure and function, and pharmaceutical formulation.

We have re-organized our facilities, concentrating our triple-quadrupole/small molecule analysis resources on the UB South Campus (314B Pharmacy Building) and creating a core facility focused upon proteomics and ultra-high sensitivity biopharmaceutical analysis on the UB Downtown Campus, located in the NY State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.