Parkville campus
Our facilities at Parkville are at the heart of Australia’s most powerful bioscience campus as well as a driver of other multidisciplinary research. Our facilities and expertise in animal health sit alongside those in biosciences, engineering, medicine and more.
With an ever-expanding research infrastructure, researchers on our Parkville campus can expect to access the following facilities, and more:
Some of the facilities available in Parkville
- 32 research laboratories and specialist equipment rooms
- Quarantine and biocontainment facilities for infectious disease studies
- Laboratory biocontainment facilities for genetic engineering and pathology
- Animal units Access to central research platforms and services
- Sequencing platforms for genomic and transcriptomic analyses
- Mass spectrometry and proteomic analysis of proteins and their structure
- Metabolic analysis of plant, animal and microbial systems
- Sophisticated microscope systems including confocal and electron microscopy
Werribee campus
The Werribee campus includes the University of Melbourne Equine Centre in Werribee, a recognised leader in equine medicine as well as state-of-the-art teaching, learning and clinical experience facilities, as well as Greencross Veterinary Hospital.
- On-site imaging including MRI, DXA, confocal endomicroscopy, MicroCT scintigraphy, fluoroscopy, radiology, radiography and ultrasound
- Clinical expertise in veterinary internal medicine and direct access to veterinary oncology, surgery, anaesthesia, imaging, clinical trial and critical care expertise and facilities
- Sophisticated equine footstep analysis; ability to measure footfall force and pressure
- A range of specialist and referral services in surgery, medicine, anaesthesia, medical imaging, emergency and critical care, neurology, clinical pathology, dermatology, cardiology and equine management