Research Cores & Labs

BPC is the core facility that provides stakeholders within the Northern Mississippi region access to an XFe96 Seahorse Analyzer. This system is available with cold incubation to accommodate analyses of multiple species, including mammals, fish, drosophila, and bacteria.

The University of Mississippi Botanical Dietary Supplements Research Center is part of the NIH Consortium for Advancing Research on Botanicals and Other Natural Products (CARBON) Program. It was created to foster collaborations between scientists at the University of Mississippi's main campus in Oxford and the Medical Center in Jackson.

The Chemistry/DMPK Research Core is designed to provide lead optimization, analytical/bioanalytical expertise, drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics expertise on natural products and related compounds.

Through human studies, our clinical research team evaluates the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of both established and emerging botanical dietary supplements and phytochemicals, providing evidence-based data to support their responsible development and use.

GlyCORE supports investigators in glycoscience through direct funding of selected research projects, establishes mentors for early career investigators, supports the recruitment of new faculty in glycoscience, and develops local and regional meetings for investigators to discuss their work.

This facility hosts five high-resolution NMR spectrometers located in three laboratories in the SOP buildings. The capability of instrumentation allows the conduct of research in a variety of research areas, including natural products research and small molecules.

The NPC enables investigators to use in vitro and in vivo assays to guide the isolation and identification of biological-active natural products and to evaluate compounds predicted to have activities in these systems through rational drug design. The Core uses human neuroblastoma cell lines to assess neurotoxicity and neuroprotection in response to drug treatment.