Research Projects
Status epilepticus describes prolonged seizure or recurrent seizure within a defined period and without complete regaining of consciousness, It is an...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Thrombectomy significantly improves clinical outcomes in patients with large vessel occlusion. However, the foundational trials used restrictive...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
The Combes laboratory has opportunities for postgraduate research projects in animal and stem cell models of kidney development and disease, advanced...
Supervisor: Dr Alex Combes
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus continues to increase worldwide leading to premature mortality. About 30% of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D)...
Supervisor: Professor Sharon Ricardo
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is an immune-mediated rare and incurable and life-limiting disease that affects the liver and bile ducts. To...
Supervisor: Dr Charlotte Keung
StigmaBeat is an ongoing codesigned research project which has led to the co-creation with 18 rural young people from Gippsland, who have experienced...
Supervisor: Dr Rochelle Hine
Epilepsy is a serious neurological condition which is characterised by spontaneous seizures, or 'fits'. Current medications are effective...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an urgent global health challenge that threatens our healthcare system and many of the advances of modern medicine...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic
Our lives are constructed in narrative and the illness narrative in particular, forms an important part of that story. This project will, through...
Supervisor: Dr Margaret Simmons
Streamlining the cancer Care pathways to enhance patient's journey with prostate cancer at Monash Health
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Each year, one in three Australians aged over 65 falls. As the incidence of falls and fall-related injury increases, the likelihood of admission to...
Supervisor: Professor Shapour Jaberzadeh
This project examines how weight gain is affected by stress and the bidirectional relationship between mind and body in stress, metabolism, comfort...
Supervisor: Dr Kevin Lee
Eukaryotic transcriptional co-activators are multi-subunit complexes that both modify chromatin and recognize histone modifications to control gene...
Supervisor: Dr Dominika Elmlund
Ischaemic stroke results from occlusion of the cerebral circulation. Clot removal has been shown to be effective in reducing disability associated...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
The immune system comprises a variety of effector cells that are uniquely poised to recognize infected or transformed cells. However, the capacity of...
Supervisor: Dr Richard Berry
My laboratory utilises structural biology methods to investigate the structure and function of protein and protein-nucleic acid complexes important...
Supervisor: Dr Wilson Wong
Viruses and pathogens are part of day-to-day encounters that the immune system needs to deal with. How the immune system “sees”, recognises and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Stephanie Gras
Perforin and the Complement Membrane Attack Complex (MAC) are related pore forming immune effectors that are deployed by the immune system to...
Supervisor: Professor James Whisstock
In this project, in collaboration with Professor Ross Hannan (ANU), we will study the structure of Upstream Binding Factor (UBF) in complex with...
Supervisor: Professor James Whisstock
The mineralcorticoid receptor (MR) is an important therapeutic target in cardiovascular disease. We have identified interactions of the receptor that...
Supervisor: Professor Peter J. Fuller