Freeze Dryers

The freeze dryers are critical for gentle, reliable drying while preserving the integrity of delicate biopharmaceuticals like proteins, peptides and nanoparticles crucial to cutting-edge drug delivery research at Monash. Also known as lyophilisers, these systems utilise cryogenic freezing followed by sublimation under vacuum to remove water and moisture from heat-sensitive samples. Automated programming precisely controls ice crystallisation and drying rates to optimise the dried products' homogeneity, activity recovery, and long-term stability. With multiple shelf configurations in each unit chamber, large batch sample processing can accelerate students’ innovations across sustained-release injections, oral films, microneedle platforms and more. Backed by decades of pharmaceutical experience, the research-grade freeze dryers thus provide a foundational technology enabling the department’s leadership in advanced biological and biopolymer-based therapeutics translation.