Description
Males and females have different clinical presentations of heart valve disease, as well as different responses to treatment. This project aims to develop a humanized zebrafish model of heart valve disease and to determine if sex hormones could affect the ability of endothelial progenitor cells to repair heart valves.
Main techniques: culturing cells from human blood, ultrasound imaging of adult fish hearts, and making transgenic zebrafish lines.
Essential criteria:
Minimum entry requirements can be found here: https://www.monash.edu/admissions/entry-requirements/minimum
Keywords
heart valve disease, endothelial progenitor cells, blood, zebrafish, cell culture, sex hormones
School
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI)
Available options
PhD/Doctorate
Masters by research
Honours
BMedSc(Hons)
Time commitment
Full-time
Top-up scholarship funding available
No
Physical location
15 Innovation Walk
Research webpage