Specialist facilities

We have recently had £41 million invested in our City South campus to give you access to state-of-the-art facilities, classrooms, laboratories and social spaces. 

Zeiss Laboratory

We are the very first University in the UK to install a Zeiss interactive digitally-connected microscope system in our life sciences laboratories. 

Microbiology equipment

In addition to the new microscopes, our Life Science labs are equipped with modern equipment for teaching many of the molecular biology techniques that underpin modern clinical and research labs such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machines (including real-time PCR), protein and DNA electrophoresis equipment, ELISA, a variety of cell-analysis and cell-culture tools, to name just a few.

DNA sequencing equipment

The department also has Next-Generation DNA sequencing equipment so that students interested in advanced projects involving genomics will be able to undertake projects and develop in this area.