Location & Facilities
The School of Biomedical Sciences is located on the Curtin Bentley campus in buildings 308, 310, 404 and 405. The Department of Dental Hygiene & Therapy is located at the Oral Health Centre of Western Australia (OHCWA), 17 Monash Avenue, Nedlands.
Teaching and research laboratories on the Bentley campus have recently been refurbished with modern designs and state-of-the-art equipment.
Facilities
The School's Bentley facilities include 11 student laboratories and associated instrument laboratories, hot/cold and store rooms, preparation, storeroom and other support facilities, an anatomy facility, prosection room and mortuary, a dry laboratory, museum and resource centre, an electron microscope, a cytology suite, radioisotope dispensing and counting laboratories, ultra/high speed centrifugation laboratory, a computer laboratory, an animal house, a glassware preparation and sterilisation area, general and volatile stores, a workshop, a dental clinic, dental laboratory, x-ray rooms and associated support facilities, and another six major research laboratories. Off campus, there is a molecular genetic unit at the School's Royal Perth Hospital facility and two separate micromolecular research facilities at the Bentley Research Park.
The School is equipped with up-to-date facilities for macromolecular separation and analysis, nucleic acid separation, sequencing and synthesis, cell culture, cell separation and identification, microscopy, animal house facilities and molecular biology containment facilities.
There is a wide range of sophisticated and specialised scientific equipment which includes a transmission electron microscope, DNA sequencer, peptide and oligonucleotide synthesisers, HPLC and gas-liquid chromatographs, liquid scintillation and gamma counters, a a fluorescence flow cytometer, ultra and high speed centrifuges and cell counting equipment with the general range of microscopes, spectrophotometers, tissue processing, cutting and staining equipment, coagulation and electrophoresis equipment including pulse field units, laminar flow units, C02 incubators, autoclaves and sterilisation oven/incubators, microscopes, balances, pH-meters, and bench top lab equipment. The School is also well equipped with computer and photographic facilities for data analysis and presentation.
A recent grant from the Lotteries Commission brought an additional $463,000 worth of equipment to the School.
