Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
Facilities and services
Computer modelling and virtual screening facilities
- Protein structure modelling, molecular docking, cheminformatics and molecular dynamics applications
- Linux and Windows workstations, National eScience Infrastructure high performance computing environment
Synthetic chemistry facilities
- Twenty four 1.8m chemistry fume hoods
- 400 MHz NMR spectrometer
- Parallel synthesis facility
- Microwave reactor
- Hydrogenator
Radiation chemistry and biology
- External beam radiation therapy (cobalt-60) unit
- Pulse radiolysis unit
- Cesium unit
Tissue culture facilities
- 12 class II biohazard hood workstations
- 21 CO2 incubators, including for cell growth under 1-5% O2
- Three anoxic/hypoxic glove-port chambers
- Oxygen measurement facilities
- BD Accuri C6 flow cytometer
- Plate readers for absorbance and fluorescence determinations
- JuLITM stage microscopy for live cell imaging
- Hanging drop spheroid culture and multicellular layer culture systems
- Agilent HPLC and mass spectrometry systems, including single stage quadrupole, triple quadrupole and qTOF systems
Multicellular layer diffusion chamber apparatus
Customised drug design and synthesis
