Research Projects
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...
Supervisor: Professor Terence O'Brien
Fatigue and tiredness after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI, concussion) is a common symptom, although early after mTBI people often struggle to...
Supervisor: Professor Natasha Lannin
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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-...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ross Dickins
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...
Supervisor: Professor Andrew Perkins
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...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Bing Wang
Infectious diseases remain a major cause of human morbidity and mortality. The SARS CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the need for advanced and rapid...
Supervisor: A/Prof Vivek Naranbhai
Most cardiovascular diseases often lead to heart failure (HF) and is the leading cause of mortality in the western world. Cardiac hypertrophy refers...
Supervisor: Dr. Yi Ching (Peggy) Chen
Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a recurrent seizure disorder due to brain injury following physical trauma. PTE accounts for 20% of symptomatic...
Supervisor: Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
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,...
Supervisor: Dr. Yi Ching (Peggy) Chen
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