Research Projects
Gastric cancer is associated with poor patient outcome due to advanced stage at diagnosis and lack of treatment options. Most deaths from GC occur as...
Supervisor: Professor Alex Boussioutas
Malaria is one of the world’s leading causes of death and illness, particularly among young children. There remains a strong need for highly...
Supervisor: Professor James Beeson
Neuroimaging provides a multitude of non-invasive methods to better understand the pathology and pathogenesis of neurological and neuropsychiatric...
Supervisor: Dr Lucy Vivash
Point-of-care (POC) testing is the testing at the site of patient care. It is done on patients conveniently and immediately allowing patients and...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Heart failure (HF) is the commonest cardiovascular cause for hospital admission in people aged >65years. It has become increasingly evident that...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Bing Wang
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive primary brain cancer, and with current conventional treatment the average life expectancy is only 12-18 months....
Supervisor: Dr Mastura Monif
Recruitment for this study has concluded, and analyses are in their early phases. The D2 study aims to establish whether subjects with diabetes and...
Supervisor: Prof Amy Brodtmann
Many patients with epilepsy suffer from debilitating mood disorders, including depression. These psychiatric conditions are the major determinants of...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones
Diabetes and its complications are arguably the epidemic of this century. The number of individuals with diabetes has doubled over the last 20 years...
Supervisor: Professor Melinda Coughlan
Enduring antibody-mediated immunity is critical for vaccines to provide protection from infectious disease. Despite the success of vaccines to date,...
Supervisor: Dr Danika Hill
Antibodies are an important component of acquired immunity against malaria, and many malaria vaccines aim to generate functional antibodies to...
Supervisor: Professor James Beeson
Background. Melanoma is the most common cancer in young Australians. In part because of this, melanoma has the second-most detrimental socioeconomic...
Supervisor: Dr Mark Shackleton
S100A8 and S100A9 (also known as MRP8 and MRP14, respectively) are Ca2+ binding proteins belonging to the S100 family. They often form heterodimers,...
Supervisor: Dr Carlos Rosado
Pulmonary rehabilitation is a key component of management for people chronic respiratory disease. A program of exercise and education, pulmonary...
Supervisor: Dr Narelle Cox
Chronic respiratory diseases, in particularly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are a leading cause of death and disability globally....
Supervisor: Dr Narelle Cox
Current therapies for epilepsy are symptomatic, only suppressing the symptoms (seizures), but do not impact the development or progression of disease...
Supervisor: Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
The Stem Cell Laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience is investigating new treatments for a class of patients that do not respond to mainstream...
Supervisor: Dr. Shahid Javaid
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the leading cause of non-traumatic brain injury in young Australians, affecting thousands of people nationally. The...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anneke Van Der Walt
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a chronic mental health disorder affecting approximately 1% of the Australian population. Individuals with...
Supervisor: Dr. Eveline Mu
Nearly one in three Australian's lives with a chronic lung disease. People with chronic lung disease experience burdensome symptoms, including...
Supervisor: Dr Narelle Cox