TIPS members' visit of comprehensive pre-clinical laboratory of TUMS
For the journal club meeting on 21 May 2018, comprehensive pre-clinical laboratory of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) was the host of The Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (TIPS) team. The members of TIPS including PhD students, postdocs and respected seniors with the presence of Prof. Abdollahi have visited the pre-clinical laboratory of TUMS located in the core facility of the university. At the beginning Dr. Sharif, the deputy of research and technology, welcome the TIPS members and invited members to watch a short video giving more general information about the lab. Then after, TIPS members visited the optical imaging section which includes Fluorescence Molecular Tomography (FMT) and FluoVision devices. During this section visit, Dr. Sharif explained the FMT and FluoVision are the range of systems for in vivo fluorescence imaging. It provides real time images and videos of fluorescent signal in living animals, non invasively, suitable for intraoperative imaging for small and large animals. Small animal imaging is an emerging field which has an impact on various biomedical research areas such as neurology, oncology, cardiology, immunology and infection biology. The pharmaceutical industries and research centers will profit from pre-clinical system as they accelerate drug and biomarker development by yielding more reliable in vivo results and cost effective study design. High sensitivity, great flexibility with the open space design, working with white light and recording in real time images and videos are the special benefit of using theses devises. Then, sections associate with preclinical PET and High Resolution SPECT (HiReSPECT) imaging system have been visited. Also surgeon’s sight operation room and different sections of the lab including animal keeping site, small animal surgery and microsurgery, histopathology, chemistry and radiochemistry labs have been visited by TIPS team. At the end visitors asked their questions and took a memorial picture with the staff of pre-clinical laboratory.
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