Drug Discovery
Synthetic Hit to Lead and Lead optimization
In silico design and virtual HTS
Natural products as leads
Fragment based lead discovery
Structural biology: X-ray and NMR
Biochemical and biophysical assays
Recombinant protein production
Mode of action studies
Preclinical Drug Development
Animal Models of Neurological and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Istroke models
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Models
Neuropathic Pain Models
Inflammatory Pain Models
Acute Pain Models
Epilepsy Models
Depression Models
Cognition and Dementia Models
Anxiety Models
Experimental Models of Cardiovascular Diseases
Organ bath experiments
Isolated heart according to Langendorff
Measurement of blood pressure
Echocardiographic Assessment of Cardiac Anatomy and Function
Assessment of Antiarrhythmic activity
Myocardial infarction in vivo in rats
Experimental atherosclerosis in mice
DMPK and safety
Pharmacokinetic Assays
Single and Repeated Dose Safety (Toxicity) Studies
In vitro ADMET studies
Plasma protein binding
Chemical, microsomal, plasma and blood stability, identification of metabolites
Solubility and LogP/LogD assays
Manufacturing technologies
Route scouting
Route optimization
Kg-scale synthesis
Impurity profiling
Polymorphism testing
GMP stability testing, method validation and QC analyses
Synthetic chemistry
Synthesis of reference compounds
Asymmetric synthesis, separation of enantiomers
Electrochemistry: batch and flow
Photochemistry: batch and flow
Fluorochemistry
Selenium chemistry
Nucleotide chemistry
C-H activation
Analytical Chemistry
Mass Spectrometry services
HRMS systems Synapt GII q-ToF, IT-ToF with UHPLC front-end
MS/MS analyses with UHPLC front-end
MALDI-TOF MS/MS
Chromatography
HPLC/UHPLC Systems with UV, PDA, MS, fluorescence, and ELSD detectors
Gas Chromatography with FID, TCD, and MS detectors
Microanalysis
C, H, N, S elemental analysis
NMR Facility
300MHz, 400MHz, and 600MHz solution state spectroscopy equipment for detailed molecular analysis 1D; 2D, H, C, F, N, B, Si
800MHz NMR system for solid state NMR studies
X-ray Diffractometry
Single crystal and powder X-ray diffractometry systems
Expert-Designed Compounds
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Pharmacology
Supporting drug efficacy and safety studies with advanced pharmacology tools
● EU-compliant Animal Facility
● ECG, echocardiography, and small animal surgery equipment
● Size Exclusion Chromatography-Static Light Scattering (SEC-SLS) for determination of absolute molecular weights of proteins, polymers, and other macromolecules (OMNISEC RESOLVE and OMNISEC REVEAL by Malvern Panalytical)
● Leica STELLARIS, SP8, SP8 MP Super-Resolution STED/FLIM/FCS microscope
● High-resolution respirometry Oxygraph-2k with multi-sensor modules
● MicroBeta TriLux multi-detector plate counter for liquid scintillation and luminescence measurements
● BD FACS Melody cell sorter system
● Sable System Promethion Core® Line (16 cages) metabolic and behavioral phenotyping system
● Sable System Promethion Core® Line (16 cages) metabolic and behavioral phenotyping system
Biophysical Chemistry
State-of-the art tools for structural biology
Protein Expression and purification Facility
800 MHz NMR system (solution state HCN-probe, solid state probe)
600 MHz NMR system (solution state HCN-probe, cryoprobe)
Maldi-TOF
Isotermal titration calorimetry (ITC)
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR)
Grating-coupled interferometry (GCI)
Microscale thermophoresis
Light scattering and Langmuir–Blodgett for nanoparticles and aggregates
Polymer processing instruments: Electrospinning SpinBox, Spincoater
Medicinal & Organic Chemistry
Fully equipped lab-space for synthesis and analytics
- Hoods with inert gas and set of routine equipment for synthesis and sample processing
synthesis
- Parallel synthesis stations and dry blocks
- Batch and flow electrochemistry equipment
- Batch and flow photochemistry equipment
- Microwave synthesizers
- High presure reactors
- Preparative flash chromatography systems with UV and ELSD detectors
- Preparative HPLC systems, with MS and UV detectors
- Set of preparative chiral HPLC columns
- Glovebox for handling of air/moisture sensitive materials
- Solvent purification station
- 10,000+ in house chemical reagents and building blocks
- Analytical LC/SQ-MS, GC/MS
- Preparative Flash Chromatography
- Computational Tools: access to computational cluster, ChemDraw, MestReNova
Analytical Chemistry
NMR systems : 400MHz (autosampler, solution state BB-probe), 300MHz (autosampler)
Powder and single crystal X-ray diffractometers
Synapt GII q-ToF HRMS system with UPLC front-end
IT-ToF HRMS system with UPLC front-end
Quattro Micro, Xevo TQ-S, micro-TQ-S tandem mass-spectrometers, UPLC front-end with bioanalytical sample preparation equipment set
Analytical HPLC-systems with UV, PDA, fluorescence, ELS detectors
GC-based microanalysis systems for C,H, N, S
FT-IR spectrometer with spectra library
GC/FID and GC/MS systems.
Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)
Infrared spectroscopy (IR)
Polarimeter
Kilo-Scale Facility
Reactors and Work-Up Stations:
- 63 L glass-lined rector
- 20 L double jacketed glass reactor
- 1,2 and 25 L hastelloy high pressure reactors
- temperature controlers
- Parr pressure reactors (25L, 1.2L)
Evaporation Systems:
- 20 L rotary evaporator
- VTA Wiped-film Evaporator, up to 5 kg/hour
Filtration Systems:
- Centrifuge (14 L, 2500rpm)
- PTFE Pressure Filters (40L, 2L)