Research Projects
Mainstream anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) that are used to treat epilepsy and some other conditions are associated with a range of cutaneous side...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Stroke survivors are at increased risk of acute symptomatic seizures in the days following a stroke, and are at increased risk for developing...
Supervisor: Dr Emma Foster
Objective: The relationship between neurodivergence and eating disorders is an emerging area of interest. This study aims to measure the prevalence...
Supervisor: Dr. Eva Cecilie Gregertsen
The Melbourne Sexual Health Centre is a public sexual health service in Victoria. The clinic provides about 60,000 consultations a year. There have...
Supervisor: Professor Eric Chow
This project is based on the single-chain antibody (scFv) technology, an emerging class of biotechnologically produced therapeutics. ScFvs are...
Supervisor: Prof Christoph Hagemeyer
Interstitial lung diseases (or ILD) are a group of chronic lung scarring diseases, which are characterised by distressing breathlessness, fatigue,...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Yet Hong Khor
People with chronic respiratory conditions can achieve improvements in exercise capacity, breathlessness and quality of life through participation in...
Supervisor: Professor Anne Holland
Description
Brain inflammation appears to play a critical role in the pathogenesis of epilepsy. A major cell type involved in inflammatory cascades...
Supervisor: Dr Idrish Ali
Gastric cancer (GC) is the fourth most common cancer globally and 7th in incidence in Australia. It has a poor survival rate which can be attributed...
Supervisor: Professor Alex Boussioutas
The project will focus on developing an energy-efficient and high-performing sensor-based neuromorphic Organic Processing Unit (OPU), an advanced...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
This highly innovative project aims to developi an energy-efficient and high-performing sensor-based neuromorphic Organic Processing Unit (OPU). The...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
**New Projects On Offer for 2025**
Diabetic complications remain the major cause of morbidity and mortality and this is primarily attributed to...
Supervisor: Professor Sam El-Osta
Stress and sex hormones are associated with cognitive changes throughout life. This project will explore sex and stress hormones in association with...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Caroline Gurvich
We offer students an exciting opportunity to undertake clinical translational research to improve women’s health. Our research programme focuses on...
Supervisor: Dr Lenka Vodstrcil
We offer students an exciting opportunity to undertake clinical translational research to improve women’s health. Our research programme focuses on...
Supervisor: Professor Catriona Bradshaw
This project aims to develop nanoparticle contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that selectively target molecular markers of...
Supervisor: Prof Christoph Hagemeyer
Alternative splicing is a regulatory pathway that can can change the messenger RNA produced from a gene and subsequently the proteins that are...
Supervisor: Dr Carlos Rosado
Interstitial lung diseases (or ILD) are a group of chronic lung scarring diseases, which is the second leading cause of death due to chronic lung...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Yet Hong Khor
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is generally due to abnormalities either in a protein called tau (45%) or a protein called TDP-43 (45%). In both types...
Supervisor: Professor Terence O'Brien
Epilepsy is a serious neurological condition which is characterised by spontaneous seizures, or 'fits'. Current medications are effective...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones