Medical Device Research Institute Facilities

Digital Health Design Lab/ Medical Simulation Lab

In collaboration with Cisco, this lab is an initiative of the Flinders Digital Health Research Centre and is shared with the MDRI. It is a unique space with a strong collaborative and innovative environment promoting Medical Simulation, Digital Health Design, and IoT in Health.

It is a unique space with a strong collaborative and innovative environment promoting Medical Simulation, Digital Health Design, and IoT in Health.  It is an opportunity to explore, embrace and shape how we use emerging technologies to improve healthcare in a safe and secure manner.

Facility Manager 
Ginger Mudd

Facility Director
Professor Trish Williams

Email
ginger.mudd@flinders.edu.au

Address
Level 5, Room 5.40 Flinders University Tonsley Campus

Phone
+61 8 72218843

Multimodal Recording Facility
 

This facility incorporates two experimental spaces. A Faraday cage for sensitive or isolated EEG recordings and an acoustic and lighting controlled room offering acoustic and visual recording and analysis software for research on human communication, speech and non-verbal interactions.

Contact Name
Associate Professor Kenneth Pope

Email
kenneth.pope@flinders.edu.au

Address
Level 4, Room 4.17 Flinders University Tonsley

Phone
 +61 8201 5042

PPE Testing Facility
 

Test Labs is a dedicated test facility located at Tonsley . The facility was established through funding received from Flinders’ Foundation and the South Australian Government through the Research Commercialisation and Startup Fund.

The facility provides research and testing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including surgical masks, respirators and medical gowns.

Contact Name
Professor Karen Reynolds

Email 
karen.reynolds@flinders.edu.au

Address
Level 3, Room 3.20 Flinders University, Tonsley Campus

Phone
+61 8 82015190

Medical Device Prototyping Facility

The Medical Device Prototyping Facility specialises in the research and development of general medical devices and assistive technologies, instruments, software and systems for understanding, diagnosing, treating and monitoring medical conditions.

It is home to the Medical Device Partnering Program (MDPP) an ideas incubator fostering collaborations between researchers, industry and end-users.

The lab also houses the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) medical device fabrication facility. 

Equipment includes:

- FDM and SLA 3D printers
- pick-and-place machine
- PCB tracing printer
- patient signal simulator
- data acquisition unit
- vacuum pump
- thermal camera

Contact Name
Jodie Hobbs

Email
jodie.hobbs@flinders.edu.au

Address
Level 5, Room 5.41 Flinders University Tonsley Campus

Phone
+61 8 82015489

Rehabilitation & Motion Analysis Lab

The Rehabilitation and Motion Analysis Laboratory incorporates a 10 camera Vicon system (Vicon Bonita 10, 1MP Optical Camera, 250 fps) for motion capture and analysis, 4 AMTI force plates (AMTI OR6-7-1K-SYS Force Platforms) within a flexible grid arrangement for flexible ground reaction force measurement, a ceiling mounted hoist (rated at 250kg) to provide assistance for partial weight bearing activities, and a 16-channel combined wireless EMG and tri-axial accelerometer system for muscle activity measurement.

The Laboratory also includes a custom made, adjustable instrumented staircase, enabling motion and kinetic analysis of a wide range of typical activities (level gait, sit-to-stand, stair ascent, stair descent, deep knee bend, etc), including dual-camera 2D gait recording with our autonomous robot.

The lab is open for research, clinical and teaching purposes and we encourage you to contact us if you are interested in accessing these facilities. 

Contact Name
Dr David Hobbs

Email
david.hobbs@flinders.edu.au

Address
Level 4, Room 4.54 Flinders University Tonsley

Phone
 +61 88201 3167

Advanced Materials Lab

Our advanced materials laboratory is engaged in a variety of research and teaching programs focused on research into biomaterials and biosensors preparation, characterisation and processing, nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing and solid mechanics.

This lab has general wet synthetic lab facility and has UV-vis, fluorescence and FTIR spectrometers. Meanwhile, the lab includes a custom made tribocorrosion platform, custom made impaction machine. The lab houses the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) medical device fabrication facility of electrospinning and electrospray machine.

The lab is open for research, clinical and teaching purposes and we encourage you to contact us if you are interested in accessing the lab.

Contact Name
Professor Youhong Tang

Email
youhong.tang@flinders.edu.au

Address
Level 5, Room 5.28 Flinders University Tonsley Campus

Phone
+61 8 82012138

Nanostructures Clean Room

The clean room facility contains a spin coater, lithography and etching equipment, and a thermal evaporator. This allows us to produce devices with very low levels of contamination; our clean room contains fewer than 1000 particles of 500 nm or larger per cubic meter, compared to the average urban environment which contains around 35,000,000 of these particles per cubic meter. These facilities are further supported by a high temperature furnace (up to 1100 °C) and general chemistry laboratories.

Contact Name
Professor Youhong Tang

Email
youhong.tang@flinders.edu.au

Address
Level 5, Room 5.26 Flinders University Tonsley Campus

Phone
+61 8 82012138