Research Projects
A New Frontier in Healthcare: The era of one-size-fits-all medicine is giving way to a more tailored approach, where treatments and interventions are...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
Risk stratification and outcomes prediction in patients using applied machine learning and natural language processing
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Here we will combine omics technologies with novel muscle-specific gene manipulation technologies to discover novel signalling pathways controlling...
Supervisor: Dr Adam Rose
Plasmin (Plm) plays a crucial role in blood clot dissolution (fibrinolysis), inflammation, cellular migration and wound healing. Alpha2-antiplasmin (...
Supervisor: Dr Ruby Law
Atherosclerosis is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease (CVD) related premature deaths in people with diabetes. Residual increased risk of...
Supervisor: Dr Waheed Khan
Natural killer (NK) cells are the founding members of the innate lymphoid cell family and contribute to the rapid production of inflammatory...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
Lytic forms of programmed cell death, pyroptosis and necroptosis, play an integral role in driving innate inflammatory responses and tissue damage in...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Kate Lawlor
Description
Brain inflammation appears to play a critical role in the pathogenesis of epilepsy. A major cell type involved in inflammatory cascades...
Supervisor: Dr Idrish Ali
The mammalian oocyte is the largest cell in the body and undergoes two highly specialised asymmetric meiotic cell divisions. Coordination of...
Supervisor: Professor John Carroll
The Bcl-2 family of proteins is crucial for apoptosis (a form of programmed cell death) regulation. The Bcl-2 proteins are synthesized in cytosolic...
Supervisor: Professor Mibel Aguilar
Gastric cancer (GC) is the fourth most common cancer globally and 7th in incidence in Australia. It has a poor survival rate which can be attributed...
Supervisor: Professor Alex Boussioutas
The X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis (XIAP) is a member of a family of endogenous caspase inhibitors that act as antiapoptotic factors. XIAP is the...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu
There is emerging evidence from overseas quality network that disparities in health outcomes is influenced by social determinanta of health. For...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
Ischemic stroke is due to a clot blocking a blood vessel impeding delivery of blood and nutrients. It can manifest as transient ischemic attack (TIA...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
SAVES-N: A prospective adverse event reporting system for neurosurgical cases
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
The micronutrient selenium is crucial for the antioxidant response, as well as for immune system and thyroid hormone regulation. Inadequate selenium...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara R Cardoso
Depo Provera is a highly effective long acting reversible contraception administered by a three monthly injection. Internationally, in an attempt to...
Supervisor: Professor Danielle Mazza
Depo Provera is a highly effective long acting reversible contraception administered by a three monthly injection. Internationally, in an attempt to...
Supervisor: Dr Anisa Assifi
Self-care is an important component of health care globally, defined as “the ability of individuals, families and communities to promote health,...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel
In Australia the norm it is to be overweight or obese, with current estimates being nearly two-thirds for adults. If efforts to halt the increasing...
Supervisor: Dr Rosanne Freak-Poli