Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Researchers will move into the third addition of the Structural Biology Center, which is dedicated to the cancer drug discovery process, next Monday.
The construction on the Structural Biology Center, 2121 Simons Dr., began in April 2007 and is the building’s third addition.
Carla Ramirez, program assistant of research and graduate studies, said the building, called SBC III, would provide 38,000 feet of space for cancer research by the University of Kansas Center for Research.
George Wilson, associate vice provost of research and graduate studies, said the University committed itself to the discovery of new cancer drugs and the new lab facilitated that promise.
“The building houses sophisticated experiments and technology to enable us to better understand interaction of molecules in biosystems,” Wilson said.
Phase III will house technical laboratories used in drug discovery. Students in scientific disciplines can get invovled in the cancer research, if they develop new ways for drugs to affect cancer cells.
Wilson said the addition was not designed for any particular department. The departments of chemistry, biology, engineering and physiology would all be able to use the lab, and use their knowledge to contribute to the drug discovery process.
Wilson said this lab was different than ones at other universities because it was already paid for, and didn’t need to make a profit.
“Our goal is to put people together and do innovative things, and not worry about stockholders,” Wilson said.
He said when labs were worried about making money, it affected their research.
The lab’s focus on cancer drugs means researchers will test compounds against cancer cells in a process called High-throughput Screening, or HTS. Wilson said HTS was important when indentifying options for new medicines, because it helped indentify what drugs kill cancer cells.
“We can identify what sorts of compounds influence the reaction we’re interested in,” Wilson said.
The next step in the drug discovery process is drug delivery. Wilson said the lab allows researchers to test different methods of how medicine enters cancerous cells because it has technologically advanced equipment.
Teri Herberger, building manager, said several distinguished professors and researchers would occupy the new lab space, including Blake Peterson, Kansas Bioscience Authority Eminent Scholar. Peterson will lead a team focused on the drug delivery process through molecular delivery. He will occupy labs in the final addition of SBC, Phase IV, which will be completed in Fall 2008.
— edited by Gretchen Gier
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