Research facilities
We have a range of facilities and capabilities to address issues in veterinary sciences including the Werribee Equine Centre and the Goulburn Valley Equine Hospital.
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