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Welcome to Touro University-California Research
We hope to make it an interesting and useful resource for our members, students, as well as to help visitors become acquainted with the breadth of research and education carried out in the university.
"Navigare neccesse est, vivere non est neccesse” is a Latin proverb that essentially emphasizes that what is most important is to move constantly striving for better horizons and knowledge. For the past 4 years, Touro University has made a commitment, both financial and political in the sense of moving ahead with our research efforts.
In the past 3 years we have doubled our research facilities with the building of 3,600 square feet of new, state-of the art laboratories. Ten researchers (barring students) presently work in these new laboratories which will host up to 18 investigators when full capacity is reached. A fully equipped GC-MS laboratory with 3 gas chromatographs-mass spectrometers, 2 HPLC machines, PCR thermocycler, Real Time PCR thermocycler, 2 cell culture labs are among the many new pieces of equipment purchased over the last year.
An NMR laboratory has been our latest addition to the growing infrastructure. Our faculty is funded by NIH R01, R21 and R21 grants as well as grants from the American Diabetes Association, JDRF, Pfizer, Lifescan and other by our intramural program. Start-up packages are also provided to seasoned newly hired faculty.
At the ground level, we have 3,600 square feet of laboratory space, including an electrophysiology patch clamp lab, an electrophysiology single-cell recording lab, a biochemistry/cell culture lab with a lipidology-ultracentrifuge unit, a gas detector X ray lab (partnership), animal facility (mice, rats and frogs), common equipment rooms, fluorescence microscopy unit with digital imaging equipment, Aperio system for digitizing slides, surgery and dark room. Seven full-time researchers (barring students) work in the area.
Our intramural grant program has allowed our veteran and new faculty to generate preliminary data that has resulted, a posteriori, in a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Grant received by one of them. At present, 5 faculty members hold these grants and their work will surely fructify in the next future.
We are blessed with our student body whose drive and willingness has served the research effort so well in the past and will surely continue. In 2006 we had a record of 14 posters presented at the AOA convention, with more than 15 DO students participating. As we move forward, one of our goals is to develop a Master Program that would allow the productivity to grow exponentially.
We are working also in strengthening our partnerships and developing new ones, both at the local academic level (U.C.S.F., Gallo Institute, Buck Institute, U.C. Berkeley), with the industry and at the international academic level (Showa University, Japan, University of Sao Paulo and Santa Catarina, Brazil).
The opening of the College of Pharmacy in 2005, with the arrival of seasoned researchers with local partnerships will play a critical role in the exponential growth that we foresee for our research in the future. Clinical research, research in public health and education are fields towards which we are counting on expanding.
NEWS & EVENTS
Visit our Research Day Information page for images and a list of abstracts presented.
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