The Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology is currently headed by an Associate Professor, Bulus Adzu, PhD.

 

The department is made up of four (4) Units;

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1. Pharmacology (responsible for in vivo and in vitro efficacy studies);

2. Toxicology (responsible for in vivo and in vitro safety studies);

3. Laboratory (manages the in vivo and in vitro laboratories), and;

4. Animal Facility Centre (AFC) (responsible for breeding and maintenance of laboratory animals).

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The staff strength stands at 16: 3 Professors; 5 Research Fellows (of various cadres); 4  Technologist (of various cadres); 1 Chief Nutritionist; 2 Livestock Overseers and a departmental Secretary.

 

The current research activities in the department include:

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Safety studies

• Acute toxicity (1 – 14 days)

• Sub-chronic toxicity (28 – 30 days)

• Chronic toxicity (90 days)

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Efficacy studies

• Antimalarial/parasitic diseases

• Anti-inflammation/Anti-nociceptive

• Analgesic/Antipyretic

• Behavioural studies/CNS

• Anti-diabetes/Endocrine disorders

• Anti-ulcer/Anti-diarrhoeal

• Reproductive/fertility studies

• Immunomodulation

• Isolated tissue/organs assay

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Pharmacokinetics studies

• Herb-drug interaction studies

• Drug metabolisms assays

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Laboratory animals

• Mice

• Rats

• Guinea pigs

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The department functions are;

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1. Evaluate safety of drugs and drug products using acute, sub-acute, chronic and in vitro toxicological procedures;

2. Perform efficacy studies of drugs and drug products for the treatment of common and emerging diseases; including verification of claims by traditional medicine practitioners;

3. Determine potential of interaction between herbal products and synthetic medicines using in vivo and  in vitro techniques;

4. Breed quality laboratory animals.