Research Projects
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an urgent global health challenge that threatens our healthcare system and many of the advances of modern medicine...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic
We offer students an exciting opportunity to undertake translational research to improve treatment and control of STIs and genital infections,...
Supervisor: Professor Catriona Bradshaw
We offer students an exciting opportunity to undertake translational research to improve treatment & control of STIs and genital infections,...
Supervisor: Dr Lenka Vodstrcil
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is typically associated with relatively mild skin or throat infections but may also progress to extremely dangerous...
Supervisor: Dr Danika Hill
Research on syphilis and new methods to improve syphilis testing and control.
Supervisor: Professor Marcus Chen
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
Multi-drug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB) is a global health challenge that threatens many medical advances. Infections caused by MDR...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic
Single-chain antibodies against epitopes associated with vascular dysfunction / injury provide a unique tool for specific targeting of exosomes in...
Supervisor: Prof Christoph Hagemeyer
Anti-HIV therapy suppresses HIV replication and prevents AIDS, however HIV currently cannot be cured and continuous, life-long therapy is required....
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps
Atherosclerosis is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease (CVD) related deaths in subjects with diabetes. Residual increased risk of CVD...
Supervisor: Dr Waheed Khan
Diabetic kidney disease is an important complication of diabetes and remains a huge medical burden and a major contributor of morbidity and mortality...
Supervisor: Dr Phillip Kantharidis
Leukaemia stem cells are thought to be the source of relapse following treatment with conventional therapies. New and emerging treatments are better...
Supervisor: Dr Omer Gilan
The bladder is a unique and often forgotten mucosal site. When the bladder is exposed to bacterial pathogens it sheds superficial epithelial cells to...
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Starkey
We are developing a platform for TCR and antibody-antigen discovery and engineering by conventional serology and T-cell assays, multiplex antigen...
Supervisor: A/Prof Vivek Naranbhai
MS is a chronic neuroinflammatory condition with associated demyelination and neurodegeneration. The most common form of MS is relapsing-remitting (...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Vilija Jokubaitis
The glymphatic system is the brain's method for clearing waste products to allow for appropriate functioning. In certain diseases, this system...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones
Viral hepatitis is responsible for more deaths globally than HIV and malaria, with hepatitis C virus (HCV) accounting for a third of viral hepatitis...
Supervisor: Doctor Rachel Sacks-Davis
Despite the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), many patients do not access or complete pulmonary...
Supervisor: Dr Angela Burge
Urinary tract infections are highly prevalent, afflicting over 400 million people globally each year. The most common cause is uropathogenic E. coli...
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Starkey
**New Projects On Offer for 2025**
Metabolic memory is the name given to the phenomenon whereby previous exposure to metabolic perturbations has...
Supervisor: Professor Sam El-Osta