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Antenatal care (ANC) is typically provided by skilled health-care professionals to ensure the best health conditions for mother and baby during...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel

Project Aims: Identify genetic markers that predict the risk of valproate-induced birth defects. It is recognised that women with epilepsy who...

Fatigue and tiredness after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI, concussion) is a common symptom, although early after mTBI people often struggle to...

**New Projects On Offer for 2023/24** Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) is a condition of chronic orthostatic intolerance for which...
Supervisor: Professor Sam El-Osta

Gliomas are the most common type of intrinsic brain tumour and a major cause of morbidity and mortality for those afflicted by these highly invasive...
Supervisor: Dr Mastura Monif

Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is caused by accumulated oncogenic mutations in white blood cell progenitors that lock them into an immature self-...

The burgeoning pandemic of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacterial pathogens poses a major threat to global health. In Australia alone, 6.5 deaths...
Supervisor: Dr Jane Hawkey

The JAK-STAT signalling pathway is critical for propagation of signals from the engagement of cytokines with receptors on the surface of blood cells...

This annual cross-sectional survey is run every year at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre through our computer-assisted self-interview (CASI) that all...
Supervisor: Dr Tiffany Phillips

The pathophysiologic progression to heart failure is a complex process. Initial insults such a myocardial infarction or chronic hypertension, trigger...

Infectious diseases remain a major cause of human morbidity and mortality. The SARS CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the need for advanced and rapid...

Most cardiovascular diseases often lead to heart failure (HF) and is the leading cause of mortality in the western world. Cardiac hypertrophy refers...

Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a recurrent seizure disorder due to brain injury following physical trauma. PTE accounts for 20% of symptomatic...

Ultra-processed foods are food products that have undergone significant industrial processing and contain cosmetic additives or industrial...
Supervisor: Dr Chu (CK) Yao

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common rhythm disorder of the heart, and is characterised by the high frequency excitation of the atrium,...

Pulmonary rehabilitation is a core component of the therapeutic management of people chronic respiratory disease. A program of exercise and education...
Supervisor: Dr Narelle Cox

The objective of this project is to gain a deeper understanding of the regulation of glyoxalase (GLO1), an enzyme that plays a crucial role in...
Supervisor: Dr Carlos Rosado

Neuropsychology-immunology Fellow Position Description Summary The Department of Neuroscience is seeking a motivated Neuropsycho-immunology...
Supervisor: Dr Mastura Monif

An increasing number of people are seeking aesthetic procedures from botox and fillers through to major surgery like breast augmentation. There has...
Supervisor: A/Prof Gemma Sharp

The project involves design, testing and analysis of a novel dermal-epidermal engineered skin graft in animals for full-thickness wound closure.
Supervisor: Dr Shiva Akbarzadeh

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