Services and Equipment

  • Hands-on user training to perform library synthesis and screening
  • Pre-made one-bead one-compound (OBOC) and one-bead two-compound (OB2C) combinatorial libraries
  • Design, synthesis and screening of custom-made combinatorial libraries
  • Screening of the pre-made combinatorial libraries against targets provided by users
  • Sequencing and structural determination of the positive hits from library screening
  • Re-synthesis of compounds (peptides, peptidomimetics peptoids, PNA and small molecules) in on-bead and soluble form for in vitro and in vivo evaluation
  • Telodendrimer-based nanomicelles for nanoformulation and in vivo delivery of hydrophobic drugs
  • Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-based nanomicelles for loading or conjugation of drugs
  • Transformable peptide nanoplatform
  • Optimization of lead compounds
  • Custom synthesis of compounds
  • HPLC purification, analysis and quantification
  • Full consultation service

Major equipment

  • ABI protein microsequencer for the decoding of positive beads
  • Fluorescent microscopes for library screening using fluorescent probes 
  • Stereo and confocal microscopes for routine library screening
  • HPLC systems for the purification of the compounds synthesized by the Shared Resource
  • Automated peptide synthesizer for synthesis of individual peptides on a large scale
  • CEM microwave peptide synthesizer for rapid synthesis of long and difficult peptides