Facilities
A four-storey laboratory block was completed in September 2002. The School of Pharmacy & Chemistry has one and half floors in the new building which is used to provide additional teaching space, additional research space and new laboratories to house the School’s spectroscopic and analytical instrumentation. The space in the new building is divided as shown below:
- Three teaching laboratories of 260m2, 185m2 and 136m2 with an associated service area of 30m2.
- Two laboratories (240m2, 70m2) for chemical and pharmaceutical science research. Each laboratory has additional space for research student offices occupying 58m2 and 20m2. There is a total of 41 fume cupboards in the two laboratories.
- A spectroscopy laboratory (102m2) houses ultraviolet/visible spectrophotometers, fluorimeters, infrared spectrometers and a teaching mass spectrometer and NMR spectrometers.
- An analytical instrument laboratory (137m2) to house GC-MS spectrometers, HPLC instruments, gas-chromatographs, thermal analysis equipment and other analytical equipment.
- An NMR suite to house the School’s 400MHz JEOL spectrometer which was purchased in 2002.
- A laboratory (37m2) for HPLC/MS, ICP/OES and AAS instruments.
- A service room (26m2) accommodating technical support for the analytical/spectroscopic facilities.
In addition to the above listed facilities, the School has the following:
- A laboratory of 139m2 for pharmacy practice.
- A laboratory (236m2) for pharmaceutical technology/physical chemistry work.
- A general teaching laboratory (127m2)
- An aseptic laboratory (124m2)
- A nuclear science laboratory (137m2)
- Four service rooms (totalling 68m2) accommodating technical support for the above laboratories.
- A glass-blowing workshop (Faculty facility)
- A mechanical workshop (Faculty facility)
- An electron microscopy suite (Faculty facility).
- A laboratory designated to be a pharmaceutics research lab
- A laboratory designated to be a pharmacology research lab
