School of Life and Health Sciences
Laboratories
Nursing Skills Laboratory
Location: Main building, rooms A102-A104
This laboratory contains patient support equipment, diagnostic equipment, patient care supplies and clinical skill tools. It also includes a rich supply of consumables relevant to nursing care.
Simulation Suite
Location: Main building, rooms A103-105
This laboratory contains two mannequins (pre-hospital and post-hospital) and several hundred clinical scenarios that the students interact and learn from.
Biology Laboratory
Location: Main building, room A106
This laboratory is employed for undergraduate biology courses. It contains teaching lab equipment such as a Visible-UV spectrophotometer, centrifuge, microscopes, and various plastic models for demonstrations. Each student station is equipped with running water, gas, and electricity. Gas leakage detectors and fire alarms/detectors are included for safety in the laboratory
Chemistry Laboratory
Location: Main building, room A113
This laboratory is employed mainly for undergraduate chemistry courses. It is equipped with student stations fitted with running water, gas, and electricity. Full safety considerations are included through gas leakage detectors and fire alarms/detectors. Other equipment includes electronic balances, portable fumehoods, Visible-UV spectrophotometers, hot plates, magnetic stirrers, heating mantles, and a variety of glassware and plasticware, and other laboratory support equipment.
Biochemistry and Preparation Laboratory
Location: Main building, room A117
This laboratory supports the research efforts of faculty members and students. It also includes a small preparation section where the Laboratory Technician prepares undergraduate laboratory experiments. It has an HPLC for research, distilled water production apparatus, fumehood, rotary vacuum evaporator, autoclave, incubator, hot plates, electronic balance, refrigerator, upright freezer, and oven
Dark Room
Location: Main building, room A111
This dark room supports molecular biology courses in the program. It is used for film development and in the future for X-ray film development. It contains a DNA gel electrophoresis chamber with power supply, and a UV lamp.
Molecular Biology Research and Tissue Culture Laboratory
Location: Main building, room A210
This laboratory is used exclusively for faculty research and students in their final year project. It contains a -20oC spark-proof refrigerator, a Real-Time PCR cycler for DNA processing, a regular PCR cycler, a centrifuge, microscopes and other research grade equipment. It also contains two cell culture hoods, a humid CO2 incubator, a water bath, a centrifuge, a freezer, a liquid nitrogen container and an inverted microscope with camera.
Molecular Biology Research and Tissue Culture Laboratory
Genetics and Molecular Biology Research Laboratory
Location: Main building, room A212
This laboratory is used exclusively for faculty research and students in their final year project, under the supervision of the faculty. It contains a -80oC refrigerator, tissue lysis centrifuge, DNA/RNA extraction robot, horizontal incubator, hybridization chamber, rotary blood agitator, incubator and other research grade equipment.
Genetics and Molecular Biology Research Laboratory
Cell Biology Laboratory
Location: Main building, room A110
This laboratory is employed mainly for undergraduate biology, microbiology and biochemistry courses. It contains teaching lab equipment such as fixed and portable UV-visible spectrophotometers, fume cupboards, a Zeiss Primo Star microscope connected to a projector and a G Box (gel imagery for fluorescence visible application). Each student station is equipped with running water, gas, and electricity. Gas leakage detectors, eye wash station, safety shower and fire alarms/detectors are included for safety in the laboratory
Developmental Biology Laboratory
Location: Main Building, room A115
This laboratory is employed by undergraduate developmental biology courses and students working on their final year projects. It includes a Cryostat, incubator for embryos, Western blot equipment, -80oCand centrifuges.
Cold Room
Location: Central building, room A110
This refrigerated area is used for sample preparation and long-term storage exclusively by faculty members and students in their final year project.
Nutrition Assessment Laboratory
Location: Research building, room 103
This laboratory is established to:
- Provide teaching and give students practical experience of assessment work
- Help assess nutrition-related health habits and behaviors
- Assist in making healthier food choices
Uses include: Blood Lipid Profile, Blood Glucose, Weight, Height, Body Mass Index , Body Fat Analysis, Blood Pressure, Dietary Analysis, Bone Density Analysis, Presentation of educational /teaching tools (food pyramid, posters), Nutrition Counseling, Nutrition Education Classes, and In house library (manuals, books).
Food and Nutrition Science Analytical Laboratory
Location: Research building, room 106
The Food and Nutrition Science laboratory:
- allows students to be exposed to a range of analytical techniques
- provides a base for final year projects as well as Faculty research projects
Uses include: pH determination of foods, titratable acidity, colour determination of food colorants including chlorophyll and anthocyanins, Maillard reaction between reducing sugars and amino acids, Fat crystallisation, Sensory evaluation of foods, Determination of protein content using the Kjeldahl method, and determination of protein content using a spectrophotometric method (Biuret Test).
Physiotherapy Lab 1
Location: RTB (Room 140)
The laboratory contains 10 manual therapy beds, 3 cardiorespiratory beds, various anatomical specimens for musculoskeletal tissues demonstration, one Game ready, one CPR dummy, one functional trainer, various physiotherapy tools like goniometers, hand exercises, Swiss balls, dumbbells, trampolines, parallel bars, tape kits, Therabands, Theratubes, etc, one ECG machine, and one spirometer.
Physiotherapy Lab 2
Location: RTB (Room 138)
The laboratory contains 10 manual therapy beds, two Bobath plinths, one Theraband exercise station, various anatomical specimens for musculoskeletal tissues demonstration, various physiotherapy tools like goniometers, hand exercises, Swiss balls, dumbbells, trampolines, parallel bars, tape kits, Therabands, Theratubes, etc., one portable Delsys EMG station with 12 sensors, 12 inertial sensors.
Physiotherapy Lab 3
Location: RTB (Room A7)
The laboratory contains 8 manual therapy beds, various anatomical specimens for musculoskeletal tissues demonstration, various physiotherapy tools like goniometers, hand exercises, Swiss balls, dumbbells, trampolines, parallel bars, tape kits, Therabands, Theratubes, etc.
Human Performance Lab
Location: Research building, room 07
Dedicated laboratory selected to facilitate learning and the acquisition of laboratory skills. Equipment includes:
- Power Treadmill, Bicycle ergometers, Wingate Cycle ergometer, Monark 894, Row ergometer, ECG recorder, Medical beds
- Hydrostatic (underwater weighting) system including chamber, computer, scale and calibration weights, Balance electrical platform
- Bioelectrical impedance: e.g. body mass analyzer and intra/extra cellular body water estimator (Bodystat Multiscan 5000 Bioimpedance analyzer), Oxycon analyser (e.g. breath-by-breath analyser, mass spectrometer, QP9000)
- Portable expired gases (Servomex 570A) and gas volume (dry gas meter) analyser, Static and Portable Blood analysers for metabolic capabilities measurements
- Amino acids analyser: HPLC with UV/vis detector
- Immunoassay analyser for hormones analysis
- Vicon gait analysis system with 8 cameras and one force plate, one Humac Norm isokinetic dynamometer (CSMI USA) with spina module and upper limb functional kit.
Pharmacognosy laboratory
Location: Research and Technology building, room RT147
This laboratory is used for faculty research and for the lab sessions of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products courses. It contains teaching lab equipment such as a Visible-UV spectrophotometer, rotary vacuum evaporator, hot plates, magnetic stirrers, heating mantles, water bath, refrigerator, electronic balance, stereoscope, microscope, UV viewing cabinet and a variety of glassware, plasticware and other laboratory support equipment, for phytochemical analysis. Full safety considerations are included through gas leakage detectors and fire alarms/detectors.
Pharmaceutical Technology Laboratory
Location: Research and Technology building, room RT129
The Pharmaceutical Technology Laboratory is a multi-purpose lab, since it allows students to be exposed to a range of:
- Pharmaceutical Technology experiments (solid, liquid and semi-solid dosage forms)
- Pharmaceutical Compounding and Dispensing experiments
- Physical Pharmacy and Physical Chemistry experiments
- Medicines Control and Pharmaceutical Analysis experiments
It also provides a base for final year projects as well as Faculty research projects.
The laboratory is equipped with: refractometer, precision balance, rheometer-viscometer, dissolution tester, disintegration tester, tablet friability tester, flammable cabinet, capsule machine, sonicator, centrifuge, infrared spectrometer, precision balance, die cast for IR pellets, tablet hardness tester, autoclave, mill, analytical siever shaker, tableting machine, cone mill, RMG, centrifuge, pH meter, conductivity meter, refractometer, rough vacuum pump for freeze dryer, laboratory oven, filtration fume cabinet, polarimeter, hotplates and relevant scientific glassware. Full safety considerations are included through gas leakage detectors and fire alarms/detectors.
Pharmaceutical Analysis laboratory B29
Location: Research and Technology building, room B29
The analysis laboratory has been specially designed to accommodate the teaching and research analytical needs and contains:
- Waters (alliance 2998 PDA Enpower 3) HPLC
- Agilent (7890B GC System) Gas Chromatography
- Freeze dryer
- Vacuum pump
- Purair Fume hood
Simulation Pharmacy (Mock Pharmacy)
Location: Research and Technology building, room B10
Students will typically interact with the examiner through given scenarios in order to get prepared for entry to the pre-registration year and develop knowledge skills and attributes obtained throughout the programme. This lab develops the students’ ability to utilise their knowledge of chemistry, pharmaceutics, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics to the safe, legal and ethical prescribing process by applying Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), which add value to traditional methods of assessment because the two evaluation methods measure different competencies.
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratory
Location: Research and Technology building, room RT135
The laboratory has been specially designed to accommodate the teaching of Pharmaceutical Chemistry:
- Precision balances, heating mandles, melting point apparatus, rotavaps, filtration fume cabinet, ice maker, drying oven, UV viewing cabinet, fridge/freezer, hot plates and relevant scientific glassware.
Full safety considerations are included through gas leakage detectors and fire alarms/detectors.
RT137 Pharmacy Research Laboratory
Location: Research and Technology building, room RT137
The laboratory has been specially designed to accommodate the research needs of the faculty and the final year projects and contains:
- Fume hood, peptide and organic synthesizer, fraction collector, vacuum pump, vortex mixer, flammable cabinet, rotary evaporator, dry ice manifold, UV spectrometer, peristaltic pump with head, precision balance, vacuum pump, thermal heater, oven, micropippettes, hotplates and relevant scientific glassware.
Full safety considerations are included through gas leakage detectors and fire alarms/detectors.