Research Projects
Brain inflammation appears to play a critical role in the pathogenesis of epilepsy. A major cell type involved in inflammatory cascades are the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones
All living things respond to changes in their direct environment by evoking innate stress response mechanisms. Multiple factors, including those...
Supervisor: Dr Kylie Wagstaff
Oesophageal function is complex and various methods have been developed to assess this. Oesophageal manometry, which involves synchronous recording...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
Background:
The role of patients is becoming increasingly valued in health professions education. The importance of patient-centred care (PCC) for...
Supervisor: A/Prof Simone Gibson
The development of diabetic complications including vascular and renal disease is enhanced in diabetic patients. However, the underlying mechanism as...
Supervisor: Dr Jay C. Jha
Chronic kidney disease CKD is an inflammatory condition that is increasing in prevalence around the world. Diabetes and obesity are the primary cause...
Supervisor: Dr Eliana Marino Moreno
Poor sleep is linked to both poor physical and mental health, and can play a role in contributing to acute crisis events that are responded to by...
Supervisor: Dr Rowan Ogeil
This study investigates the role of Smad3 acetylation in the development and progression of organ/tissue fibrosis.
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jinhua Li
Small noncoding RNAs are increasingly recognised as important regulators of gene expression and genome integrity across all kingdoms of life. This is...
Supervisor: Dr Peter Boag
Opiate substitution therapy is an evidence based intervention for reducing the health risks of addiction to opiates. Among people who inject drugs,...
Supervisor: Professor Margaret Hellard
During cell division, bacteria remodel their cell walls, resulting in the release of low molecular weight fragments of peptidoglycan, known as...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
The tyrosine kinase Src was the first proto-oncogene to be identified, and it is now known that Src plays an important role in several human cancers...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Daly
Under recently approved legislation, the state of Victoria will introduce the practice of Voluntary Assisted Dying in 2019. The legislation carefully...
Supervisor: Ms Katrina Recoche
Heme is an essential nutrient for the bacterial pathogen Haemophilus influenzae, which causes serious respiratory infections, otitis media and...
Supervisor: Dr Rhys Grinter
We are performing in-depth characterization of the microenvironment of human tumours, and discovering new mechanisms used by these cells to influence...
Supervisor: Dr Anne Fletcher
The National Centre for Healthy Ageing Smart Ward is a new and unique concept being implemented within a Geriatric Evaluation and Management ward at...
Supervisor: Dr Christina Ekegren
Background
Appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies in children. The incidence is estimated at 25 per 10,000 (age 10-17), 1-2 per...
Supervisor: Dr Maurizio Pacilli
There has been a substantial increase in the use of administrative data in health services studies. Administrative data enables studies to use large...
Supervisor: Dr Michael Di Donato
Zemiotics, or zemiology, deriving from the classical Greek word zemia, is a new body of research which focuses on social harm and loss. As Boukli and...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Charles Livingstone