Facilities

Immunology Research Core Facility

The Immunology Research Core Facility houses several shared/common equipments and machines for immunobiology investigations. The facility has two units of microplate readers (Biorad iMark) and (IEC, ELISA Reader). Moreover, protein studies are supported by Protein Acrylamide Gel Electrophoresis and Western Blotting set up. The core facilities will be having its major renovations and is expecting to house the latest facilities on immunology particularly a Flow Cytometer and a microsphere-based high-throughput protein/DNA/receptor/cytokine analyzer (X map Technology System).

  • High-throughput screening of human host response against tuberculosis using a 3-D model of lung epithelium and peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
  • Immunotherapeutics and immunonutritional interventions against Infectious diseases and malnutrition
  • Dendritic cell in-situ/postexposure vaccine development against tuberculosis
  • Avian Immunoglobulin Y Technology for diagnostics and immunotherapy for infectious diseases

Ongoing Projects

3-D Targets: The UK Philippines Dengue Diagnostics and Drug Targets Research Consortium

HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance Library and Development of Molecular Diagnostics for Drug-Resistance Detection- Part 1: Surveillance of Mutations for Acquired Drug Resistance

Dengue: Climate, Evolution and Transmission

Improving the Molecular Diagnostics of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

Responding to the Philippine HIV epidemic: an HIV drug resistance surveillance library and development of molecular diagnostics for drug-resistance detection:Part 2: Analysis and prevalence of pre-treatment drug resistance

News

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING FOR BIOSAFETY OFFICERS

The UPM - IBBC is organizing a Training Program for Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity Officers to commence in the second quarter of 2016. The main objective of the program is to develop a pool of local trainers who will undertake advocacy and continuing education on laboratory biosafety and biosecurity. At the end of the training, the trainers are expected to be competent in the following areas:

*Biosafety and biosecurity risk assessment *Laboratory vivarium Biosafety and Biosecurity *Biocontainment practices and procedures *Biocontainment facilities *Use of safety equipment *Incident response procedures *Infectious substance transport *Biosafety program management *Management of transgenic materials *Regulatory framework of transgenic materials

The training will entail at least ten modules, each of which with duration of two weeks, scheduled on July 18-29, 2016; September 18- October 1, 2016; and November 20- December 3, 2016.

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