中心简介

 

The National Center for Drug Screening possesses a well-qualified, professional and young research team with returning scholars from overseas as a core. The technologies employed in the Center are associated with a range of disciplines such as molecular biology, molecular pharmacology, cell biology, bioinformatics, medicinal chemistry and phytochemistry, etc . The research facility of the Center was constructed in compliance with the international GLP standards, possessing advanced equipment such as NMR, LC-MS, automated drug screening instruments, ArrayScan™ , KineticScan™ , computerized chemical compound and experimental data information management systems, thus providing an excellent infrastructure of hardware and software necessary to carry out its mission.


The Center follows the international development trends in drug innovation, implementing the national biopharmaceutical commercialization strategies and adopting novel operating mechanisms and management styles, with an ultimate goal of establishing a modern drug screening system and accelerating the pace of China ’s innovative drug research and development. Focusing on major diseases among the Chinese population, the Center’s screening and research emphasis is directed towards cancer, central nervous system diseases, metabolic disorders along with others.

 

 

The main functions of the Center include

 

 

  Providing compound screening services

  Offering drug screening technology platforms and technical consultation

  Setting up various advanced screening assays

  Studying high-throughput and high content screening technologies

  Constructing the national compound libraries