$5 million state-of-the-art human metabolic chamber – the only one of its kind in the southern hemisphere – has officially opened at the Melbourne campus.

Key features include:

Two fully equipped rooms for short-term (overnight) or extended stays

Extensive physiological and environmental data acquisition system delivering traceable raw data and calculated parameters

Advanced environment control system for temperature and humidity

Sampling interfaces for blood, urine, faeces

Environmental control (hypoxia, lighting), different room configurations, or additional physiological measurements (physical activity, ECG, heart rate, respiration rate, body temperature, skin temperature, blood pressure, blood glucose).