Studies are carried out in this project with two major objectives:

(i) Toxicological profiling of candidate drugs and vaccines according to internationally accepted methods for studying local, systemic, reproductive and genetic toxicity as well as testing them for allergenicity and carcinogenicity.

(ii) Deployment of alternative test systems that will reduce, refine or replace the use of animals in toxicity testing, and provide vital information on safety/mechanism of toxicity/metabolism of drugs