Department of Clinical Pharmacy

Laboratory-Based Research

Clinical faculty are conducting several projects in which work in the laboratory can be directly applied to patient care. One example is translational research, such as optimizing the use of G-CSF in cancer patients by analyzing peripheral blood progenitor cells, analyzing the effects of hematopoietic growth factors on characteristics of leukemic blast cells, and predicting hematopoietic recovery following bone marrow transplantation by further phenotyping hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. Other laboratory based projects conducted by clinical faculty include in vitro disintegration studies, such as determining the disintegration performance of renal multivitamins and phosphate-binding medications, studying the stability of antibiotics in dialysis solutions, and pharmacokinetic studies, such as determining the effects of maternal cigarette smoking on the metabolism of caffeine by the placenta.