Our Resources

Our Facilities

Facilities include the new state-of-the-art AITHM laboratories in Cairns,  Townsville, and Thursday Island Facility, The Science Place in Townsville, the JCU Cairns Aquarium, as well as other JCU laboratories.

Infrastructure includes a range of PC2 laboratories, PC3 laboratory, quarantine approved premises, custom-built wet-land filtered aquarium, insectories, animal facilities, biobank, clinical suites, and translational research laboratories.

These house a wide range of cutting-edge biomolecular equipment to move research from basic science through to translation, commercialisation and impact

Our Networks

Our national and international collaborations across both developed and developing countries form a global network of like-minded scientists and clinicians with diverse cross-disciplinary expertise.

Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine

College of Medicine and Dentistry

College of Healthcare Sciences

College of Science and Engineering

Australian Tropical Herbarium

JCU Eduquarium

ParaGen Bio Laboratories

Centre of Tropical Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology

External collaborations

Our researchers bring to the Centre established national and international collaborations with academic institutions, health services and pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies across both developed and developing countries to form a global network of scientists and clinicians with synergistic cross-disciplinary expertise. This ensures that the Centre benefits from substantial expertise in the discovery and development of novel therapeutics, as well as from the researchers’ proven capacity to deliver on research aims.