In consideration of the important role played by the educational, scientific and research institutions in our lives, and our future, Al-Nahrain College of Medicine designed and equipped a developing tissue culture laboratory for pharmaceutical research. It is considered as the first of its kind and the only one in Iraqi universities which provides facilities for cellular lines culture.
The Dean of Al-Nahrain College of Medicine, Prof. Dr. Alaa Ghani Hussein, said that laboratories provide information and data required for decision making, or to solve specific problem related to a study, a research, adopting patients’ treatment programme, or making any important decisions relating to people's lives, interests, needs and desires.
Al-Nahrain College of Medicine designed a developing tissue culture laboratory for pharmaceutical research which contains modern equipment in terms of extraction and separation of medical materials from herbs, then testing their effects on natural and malignant cellular lines cultured in lab, where the college provided all necessary equipment for culture and development of cellular lines.
The Dean added that the laboratory was established by personal efforts of post graduate students’ team, supported by the deanery, and supervised and performed by L. Dr. Haider Baha’a Sahib. This laboratory is considered as the only specialized lab in Iraqi universities which provides the facility of cellular lines culture, because it is difficult to culture cells in simple laboratories except in case of availability of special laboratory requirements and equipment.
The objective of establishing such laboratory is to develop the scientific research level in pharmaceutical field, and study of its uses and side effects on natural animal cells cultured in lab as a real sample. A number of graduate students were allowed to conduct their scientific research in the lab on the culture cellular lines. The modern equipment, set in the lab, helped to purplish ten research in prestigious international journals with impact factor (IF).
Al-Nahrain Media / Nada Omran
