The Integrated Analytical Center is a state-of-the-art center with a wide range of high resolution and sensitivity instruments including LC-MS/MS, GC MS/MS, HPLC, ICP, TOC, I.R, U.V., and other instruments. The mission of the integrated analytical lab is to serve the advanced analytical needs of researchers, students and the community in the areas of environmental quality characterization and personalized health care.

The existing equipment's can be used to conduct sensitive analyses at nanogram levels supporting research studies in the areas of environmental pollution, food quality, natural products, drug development studies including metabolomics and proteomics of different targets.

Equipment and Instruments

• Liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC-Q-TOF-MS)
• Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI-TOF-MS)
• Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectroscopy (LC-MS/MS-TQD)
• High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC-FLD/ECD/UV)
• Gas chromatography mass spectroscopy (GC-MS)
• Ion chromatography (IC)
• Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES)
• Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
• Gas Chromatography (GC-ECD/FID)
• Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
• UV-Vis spectrometry
• Automatic polarimeter
• Automatic liquid extraction
• Automatic Solid Phase Extraction
• Karl-Fischer Titrator.

Services

• Liquid Chromatography Quadrupole Time of Flight Mass Spectroscopy (LC-Q-TOF-MS)
  Wastewater pollutants screening
  Proteins Identification
  Pesticides screening
  Natural extracts screening

•  Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI-TOF-MS)
  Expression Proteomics
  MALDI Imaging
  Biotherapeutic Analysis
  Biomarker Discovery
  Polymer Analysis
  Microbial Identification

• Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectroscopy (LC-MS/MS-TQD)
  Pharmaceutical analysis
  Pharmacokinetics in biological fluids 
  Pesticides screening
  Natural extracts screening 
  Amino acid analysis
  Analysis of vitamins  
  Food and beverage analysis

• High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC-FLD/ECD/UV)
  Fluorescence detector is widely used in food, environmental, and pharmaceutical analysis, especially for samples containing conjugated systems.
  UV detector is almost universal detector for organic compounds used to analyze pharmaceuticals, nucleic acids, proteins, and therapeutic drug testing.
  Electrochemical detection (ECD) is an extremely selective and sensitive detection technique that is applied in several analyses especially compounds prone to oxidation and reduction.

• Gas chromatography mass spectroscopy (GC-MS)
  Environmental monitoring: determination of pharmaceuticals in water and soil, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons etc.
  Food, beverage, and fragrance analysis.
  Forensic and criminal cases: used in forensic toxicology to find poisons, steroids in biological specimens.

• Ion chromatography (IC)
  Drinking water analysis.
  Determination of water chemistries in aquatic ecosystems
  Determination of sugar and salt content in foods
  Isolation of select proteins
  Amino acids

• Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES)
  Environmental Analyses Applications 
  Petrochemical Analyses 
  Metallurgical analyses 
  Geological analyses 
  Foodstuffs analyses

• Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
  Municipal Waste Water: Monitoring organic carbon of influent facilitates process controls for maximizing plant efficiency.
  Pharmaceutical plants: Water is the most commonly used ingredient used to produce drugs; regulations limit the concentration of organic carbon to prevent harmful bacteria from growing.