Research Projects
The neonatal lung is constantly exposed to countless environmental challenges, including respiratory pathogens. The lung has evolved a local immune...
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Starkey
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a highly prevalent, progressive condition leading to significant morbidity and mortality worldwide....
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Natasha Smallwood
During the COVID-19 epidemic in Victoria, many parts of the healthcare system were changed. Patient flows, such as which wards patients are admitted...
Supervisor: Dr Michael Lydeamore
Vascular endothelial growth factor D (VEGF-D) is a protein produced in the body to aid in the growth of lymphatic vessels (similar to blood vessels,...
Supervisor: Dr Bridgette Semple
Virtually all cardiac functions, including the incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF) follow a circadian rhythm. Loss of appropriate timing keeping...
Supervisor: Dr Morag Young
Class IA PI3Ks are activated by receptor tyrosine kinase receptors and are critical regulators of adaptive heart growth and cardiac protection under...
Supervisor: Dr Morag Young
Since the human genome project, much of molecular biology research has
focussed on understanding the fundamental principles of gene regulation as it...
Supervisor: Dr Omer Gilan
Coordinated brain activity underpins all cognitive processes. Specifically, certain cognitive tasks are thought to be driven by brain rhythms...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones
To date, there has been no standard and validated threshold for assays to distinguish probable vaccine-induced seropositive or probable natural...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Eric Chow
Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the Asia-Pacific region. Efforts to eliminate malaria are constrained by a lack of highly...
Supervisor: Dr Freya Fowkes
Shigella and enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) are important human pathogens that cause severe diarrhoea and dysentery. Despite the fact that they are...
Supervisor: Dr Jane Hawkey
Lung cancer affects 12,500 Australians each year and is characterised by rapid disease progression, complex multidisciplinary management and a poor 5...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Robert Stirling
Visual snow (VS) is a persistent visual disturbance, described as viewing the world through a veil of flickering dots, or static, much like the ‘snow...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Joanne Fielding
Most neurological disorders, e.g. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease, etc.. are associated with the build up of toxic proteins, which can...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Sinclair
The development of reliable, accurate, non-invasive methodologies for continuous, long-term seizure monitoring is a critical part of the precision...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Patients with diabetes are disproportionally affected by the incidence of cardiovascular
disease (CVD); diabetic cardiac myopathy (DCM) affects ~20-...
Supervisor: Dr Morag Young
Whole genome sequence data is available for the GAERS epilepsy rat model of idiopathic generalised epilepsy (IGE), and its sibling strain the NEC non...
Supervisor: Professor Terence O'Brien
Pregnancy and MS outcomes:
The long-term disability outcomes of people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) vary greatly, ranging from little or no disease-...
Supervisor: Dr Vilija Jokubaitis