BR-Dutton Park
At a glance
- The facility enables researchers quick access to animals with known pathogens.
- Provides ample space for short and long term projects.
- Suitable holding facilities awaiting for re-derivation into TRI.
- The facility also provides researchers with multiple surgery spaces, behavioural rooms, breeding and experimental holding rooms and reverse light cycle rooms.
- Equipment available: Morris water maze, metabolic cages, anaesthetic machines, utilising IVC technologies in both rat and mouse boxes.
- Conveniently located next to the Translational Research Institution (TRI) at PA Hospital Dutton Park campus.
Established in 2010, BR-Dutton Park (previously known as BR-PACE) is a clean, conventional rat and mouse facility located at UQ Dutton Park. Utilising IVC technologies, BR-Dutton Park houses 2000 mouse cages and 250 rat cages, with multiple procedural spaces, suitable for reverse light cycle and behavioural research.
BR-Dutton Park Facility Metrics
Current users can use the below facility information to report in enough detail facility information. Reporting animal research in adherence with the ARRIVE guidelines ensures transparent and thorough reporting. This enables readers and reviewers to scrutinise the research adequately, evaluate its methodical rigour, and reproduce the methods or findings.
BR-Dutton Park Facility Metrics 2023 (PDF, 114.5 KB)
BR-Dutton Park Facility Metrics 2024 (PDF, 431.7 KB)
Pathogen Exclusion List
Health reports
BR - Dutton Park Health report 2024 (PDF, 186.1 KB)
Contact
Facility Manager - Lisa Foster
07 334 61764