Research Projects
The Stem Cell Laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience are investigating new treatments for a class of patients that do not respond to mainstream...
Supervisor: Dr Ana Antonic-Baker
This project is based in the National Centre for Healthy Ageing, a partnership between Monash University and Peninsula Health. This project will...
Supervisor: Dr Alison Carver
Bariatric surgery is currently the most effective treatment for obesity. While most people will experience improvements in overall quality of life...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Priya Sumithran
Oesophageal adenocarcinoma is one the cancers most closely associated with obesity and has demonstrated a 400% increase over the past 30 years. The...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
A sudden worsening of respiratory symptoms in Chronic obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is called a flare up. These flare ups are caused by...
Supervisor: Dr Arwel Jones
Exercise has been shown to reduce disability and improve fitness after stroke. Despite strong evidence exercise programs are not commonly included in...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon Kramer
Exploring antimicrobial resistance plasmid diversity at a single hospital network in a 7-year period
Plasmid transmission between bacteria of the same or different species is an important driver of genetic diversity, bacterial adaptation and...
Supervisor: Dr Margaret Lam
This project is based in the National Centre for Healthy Ageing, a partnership between Monash University and Peninsula Health. There will be...
Supervisor: Dr Alison Carver
Sustaining a stroke is a devastating neurological event potentially resulting in physical and cognitive impairments, functional limitations,...
Supervisor: Professor Natasha Lannin
Fatigue and tiredness after stroke is a commonly reported symptom, although early after stroke people often struggle to understand the term when...
Supervisor: Professor Natasha Lannin
Background: Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs), formed via the processing of foods, are a major constituent of our modern convenience diet....
Supervisor: Professor Melinda Coughlan
Around 70 million people worldwide have epilepsy and more than 30% of patients are drug-resistant. Drug resistance is currently an unmet need due to...
Supervisor: Dr. Shahid Javaid
The cEEG and Stem Cell Laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience are investigating new treatments for a class of patients that do not respond to...
Supervisor: Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
Gastric cancer (GC) is the fourth most common cancer globally. It has defined premalignant stages and progresses through Intestinal Metaplasia (IM)...
Supervisor: Professor Alex Boussioutas
Generating mouse models of clonal hematopoiesis to study the potential of apsirin to prevent cancers
Clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), defined as the presence of blood cancer-associated mutations with a variant allele frequency...
Supervisor: Professor David Curtis
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major cause of antibiotic resistant hospital-associated infections that can be extremely difficult to treat. The World...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Wyres
Acquired epilepsy is the most common form of drug resistant acquired epilepsy in adults, where seizures continue to occur despite antiepileptic drug...
Supervisor: Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
Type one diabetes (T1D) has reached epidemic proportions and people living with the disease are dependent on insulin therapy to help keep their blood...
Supervisor: Prof Christoph Hagemeyer
The level of mortality and disease among pregnant women and young children in Papua New Guinea is very high. Low birthweight and poor growth during...
Supervisor: Professor James Beeson
Epilepsy is a severe neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures that affect 1% of the population worldwide. Traumatic brain injury (...
Supervisor: Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD