Evaluating drugs From Page 12 producing the antibiotics, however, some. seed money has been obtained in the past from the Lions Gate Medical Research Foundation. (See sidebar.) Clarke refuses to call herself an international authority on antibiotics research but she has developed an international reputation of sorts. With up to 12. studies published since 1979, she sits on the editorial board of the European General. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. . Clarke also travels and acts as & guest speaker at various meetings about three times per year, and. writes for specialized antibiotics’ jour- -fals published: in:the U.S., Britain, Switzerland and Japan. © “We have been Gne of the ’ first labs in Canada to sub- mit for publication studies on many of these new drugs. However, Canada _ is” still behind quite a few other countries in this type of - thing. There’s more being done in thie States, England and West Germany and possibly in Switzerland and Belgium. So if you're first with an antibiotic in Canada, it doesn’t mean you're going to be the first in the world, by any means. But I think there's a lot more’ being done than there was five years ago,’ says Clarke. In the future, Clarke says she would like to conduct studies dealing with jthe pharmacology of antibidtics, rather than just the effect of the antibiotic on the bacteria. “For this you need to be able to assay the amount of antibiotic, measure it in dif- : ferent body fluids very accu- rately. We have, I believe, the technical capability to do 985- 8634 10am-Spin *€ no answer call . 922-6161 660 Clyde Ave. _|-3flavours that,’* she says. She acknowledges she also has the freedom to experi- ment with her research in what is actually a non-tradi- tional setting for such work. “You see, it’s a little bit unusual to do basic science research in a community hospital like this, that’s not a teaching hospital. If you work at one of the major teaching hospitals, you would be expected to do some kind of research. Here it's something that people have got used to,"’ says Clarke. “Y think people on the whole are reassured that it's not actually costing the hospital money and that it’s being funded separately and there are some spinoff benefits to the routine lab — because certain techniques get developed for the research and perfected, then turn out to be extremely useful in a modified form isi the routine lab.”* ' Location: 24 hrs. : puna’ Dog Chow Purina. Cat Chow Thv Dog Food ‘Ken L Ration « :Tender Chunks - Puss N Boots. Special Menu North 1264 Marine Dr. N. Vancouver. . next to Save- -on-Foods "NEWS photo tan Smith ' “We make no bones about it, our prices are always low: 25% 02. tins ea. 13 - Sunday, Apri! 28, 1985 - North Shore News FOR NEW RESEARCH Support needed! LIONS GATE Hospital's resident microbiologist Dr. Alison Clarke says she con- siders the financial contribu- tions made to research pro- jects by the LGH Medical Research Foundation impor- tant and necessary — especially for fledgling researchers. “When you start these things and you're not well- known, it’s very difficult at the beginning. Once you've done a few successful studies that have been published, then it’s easier to get fun- ding. But certainly their help was extremely vatuable,’’ says Clarke, who had her T NEW I INFORMATION CENTRE. ) #200-1401 Lonsdale Ave., North: Van, B.C... Funeral counseling, traditional, memorial, burial & cremation services. Agents for bronze & granite: markers & Ums. 2 I - Office Hrs: - The McKenzie Family Serving Greater Vancouver Area Since 1997: 922-1221 Woo og 921 40 «S185 87 oot or 5 85° April 26-May 5 vag Shore Pel Foods Cleaning | | By JOANNE MacDONALD first study funded by the research foundation in 1979, She says it is vital ducing a recession and ‘‘while a fi- nancial squeeze is on’’ that researchers ensure that the hospital does not end up paying for their research. ‘We have to very careful- ly keep track of everything that's used for the research. We have technologists who work in the lab routinely, but while they're doing the research, they’re paid by research money, not by the hospital,’’ says Clarke. ‘So I would say that probably a Fur -and . ‘Insured 985: 3454 j -988- 5012 paoe, 985-8738 large proportion of the research grant goes on pay- ing for technologists to work See page 14 HOME FURNISHINGS “ Warehouse/Showroom ° QREN TO THE PUBLIC ~ ' dehind the Avalon) at {ore R Roosevelt Cres., N.Van. eur. Feast?