Research Projects
Plasma cells (PC) are the only cell type secreting antibodies, which are important for protective immunity to fight against pathogens. However,...
Supervisor: Dr Zhoujie (Zoe) Ding
The acquisition of resistance to therapies by cancer cells, sadly, is often inevitable. To effectively treat cancer, we need to understand how...
Supervisor: Dr Omer Gilan
In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka and colleagues made the groundbreaking discovery that differentiated cells can be reprogrammed back to a pluripotent state...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Matthew McCormack
Project Aims: To link databases of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program of Melbourne Epilepsy Centres with the National Death Index and National...
Supervisor: Professor Terence O'Brien
Profiling auto-reactive B cells and their targets with the goal to identify shared antigenic responses.
Supervisor: Prasanti Kotagiri
Neuroimaging provides a multitude of non-invasive methods to better understand the pathology and pathogenesis of neurological and neuropsychiatric...
Supervisor: Dr Lucy Vivash
From early in life we are exposed to trillions of microbes and food proteins through our intestines, and only occassionally are the microbes...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
Project Description:
Respiratory diseases present a health challenge that spans the globe and accounts for one-tenth of all disability adjusted...
Supervisor: Professor Nicola Harris
Continuing epidemic waves of COVID-19 are anticipated in many countries because of emerging viral variants, the moderate efficacy of vaccines being...
Supervisor: Professor James Beeson
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic poses a continued threat to public health and well-being, especially in people who have a compromised immune system....
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
The spleen is an important organ of the immune system and it is often removed for the treatment of different medical conditions, to perform surgery...
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
The presence of 'spontaneous' cancer cell death in melanoma, manifesting as ulceration at the skin surface or necrosis within deeper tissue...
Supervisor: Dr Miles Andrews
Urinary tract infections are a common cause of bacterial infection, especially in females. These infections are often chronic or recurrent and can...
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Starkey
Impact of pregnancy on long-term outcomes in women with multiple sclerosis – assessment of mechanism
Data suggests that pregnancy in women with multiple sclerosis (MS) may exert long-term health benefits. Comparisons of women with and without...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Vilija Jokubaitis
Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity. Bacterial infections are one of the most common complications following stroke. Bacterial...
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Starkey
The Australia and New Zealand Bariatric Surgery Registry is working towards the implementation of patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) in their...
Supervisor: Alyssa Budin
The primary means of protective immunity coming from vaccines is the formation of long-lived, antibody-producing plasma cells. However, not all...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
Transplantation is a life-saving procedure for patients with end-stage organ disease, but requires life-long immunosuppressive medications to prevent...
Supervisor: Brad Gardiner
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Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an organ-specific autoimmune disease that leads to the destruction of pancreatic islet...
Supervisor: Professor Sam El-Osta
Type 2 immune bias is associated with the final stages of lung development and we have recently shown that eosinophils play a key role in this...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Margaret Hibbs