Gold Coast Health & Knowledge Precinct
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Research Facilities & Equipment
Research and testing facilities in the GCHKP span the full spectrum across clinical and biomedical laboratories, industrial and engineering labs, access to specialised micro and nano-technology clean room facilities, and advanced 3D printing and design laboratories, including Queensland’s first 3D metal printer with titanium printing capabilities (medical-grade).
A range of clinical trial facilities is also available.
Facilities are supplemented by a diverse range of training spaces , including clinical simulation suites and a variety of spaces for meetings and events, making the Precinct an exciting health and medical training and research hub.
Medical Simulation training
Gold Coast University Hospital boasts specialised medical simulation suites for nursing and midwifry and also conducts virtual surgery training
Additive Manufacturing Technologies
Griffith University boasts a range of state-of-the-art additive manufacturing equipment, including the Renishaw AM400: Queensland's first industrial level metal additive manufacturing machine, capable of producing medical grade implants in its ADaPT 1.0 Laboratory.
New Materials Development
Griffith University boasts specialised technical laboratories and clean rooms, including:
- Solid State Physics Laboratory and National Hydrogen Reference Facility
- Raman Spectroscopy Laboratory, Synthetic Laboratory, AFM Laboratory
Robotic Surgery
Gold Coast Private Hospital offers advanced robotic surgery technology via the da Vinci® Xi™ Surgical System. This is a fourth generation $3 million surgical system following surgeons to operate with enhanced vision, precision, dexterity and control for minimally invasive procedures in Urology
Gynaecological Oncology and general surgery.
Translational Medical Research
Griffith University hosts the GCBiobank, a purpose-designed biostorage facility - a first for the Southern Hemisphere, it utilises the automated biostorage machine the Arktic, capable of catering for a library of up to 100,000 specimens.
Biomedical Laboratories
Griffith University boasts a range of biomedical research labs principally in the Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Institute for Glycomics and Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery.
Glycomics
World-first facilities
The Institute for Glycomic’s Glycobioanalytical facility includes the world’s first commercial glycan array. The Institute also offers a Flow Cytometry facility for cell and particle analysis and sorting.
Mass Spectometry is available in the new glycomics and glycoproteomics focussed Advanced Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, a multi-million investment in the latest technology.
Recently established, the Zymebank facility provides enzymes that support both internal and external research projects.
