Description
Liver injury due to medications is a serious problem and can lead to liver failure and/or interruption to other important therapies (such as cancer therapy). The new checkpoint inhibitors may cause severe liver injury in some patients.
This project aims to give the BMedSc (Hons) student interested in Hepatology or Oncololgy, a chance to work with patients at risk of liver injury receiving checkpoint inhibitors for their cancer.
The student will be involved in recruiting patients, processing blood samples and sending to research collaborators, collating the results, data analysis and writing up the results.
Essential criteria:
Minimum entry requirements can be found here: https://www.monash.edu/admissions/entry-requirements/minimum
Keywords
hepatitis, liver failure, drug induced liver injury, biomarkers, immunology
School
Eastern Health Clinical School
Available options
PhD/Doctorate
Masters by research
Honours
BMedSc(Hons)
Short projects
Time commitment
Full-time
Part-time
Top-up scholarship funding available
No
Physical location
Department of Gastroenterology, Box Hill
Co-supervisors
Dr
Pavel Sluka
Prof
Dolores Njoku
(External)