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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...

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

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,...

Fatigue and tiredness after stroke is a commonly reported symptom, although early after stroke people often struggle to understand the term when...

Background: Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs), formed via the processing of foods, are a major constituent of our modern convenience diet....

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...

Gastric cancer (GC) is the fourth most common cancer globally. It has defined premalignant stages and progresses through Intestinal Metaplasia (IM)...

Clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), defined as the presence of blood cancer-associated mutations with a variant allele frequency...

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...

Type one diabetes (T1D) has reached epidemic proportions and people living with the disease are dependent on insulin therapy to help keep their blood...

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...

Epilepsy is a severe neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures that affect 1% of the population worldwide. Traumatic brain injury (...

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