Research Projects
We are recruiting families to a MRFF funded study. Following clinical assessment families will be offered the opportunity to enrol in a randomised...
Supervisor: Professor Katrina Williams
The early life microbiome is highly dynamic in healthy full-term infants as well as in preterm infants. As such, the microbiome is extremely...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
The research of my group focuses on sleep in infants and children. This is of the utmost importance to the health of every baby and child. Sleep is...
Supervisor: Professor Rosemary Horne
Very preterm infants may suffer from chronic lung disease; this is defined as a need for continuing oxygen or respiratory support at 36 weeks'...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
Cytokines have attracted substantial attention as diagnostic biomarkers for infectious and inflammatory diseases in recent years. However,...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
There are over 7,000 rare diseases that on average take ~4 years to diagnose, during which families consult on average 5 doctors and receive 3...
Supervisor: Professor Katrina Williams
Project combined with Prof Debra Nestel (Simulation Professor at Monash University).
The initial project will center on the translation of a...
Supervisor: A/Professor Ram Nataraja
Stress and the ways that medical professional deal with it has received a renewed interest in recent times
With novel wearable technology the stress...
Supervisor: A/Professor Ram Nataraja
Opportunities exist to be involved in this exciting project on innovative digital monitoring devices for neonates. The project will involve...
Supervisor: A/Prof Atul Malhotra
Clinical practise around the management of nutrition for extremely preterm infants may vary across NICUs. This may include the use of probiotic...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
Health informatics is an emerging field of medicine with massive future potential. In paediatric urology health informatics may be harnessed to...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kiarash Taghavi
There remains a dearth of multi-centre trials in paediatric surgery and urology despite a wealth of important questions that remain unanswered by...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kiarash Taghavi
In Australia about 26,873 infants are born preterm each year. Despite an increase in survival, developmental morbidity has not improved, with more...
Supervisor: Professor Rosemary Horne
Interleukin (IL)-37 was discovered in silico in 2000, but received very little attention (not even 10 publications) in general and nothing at all was...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
The paediatric bladder may be affected by many functional and anatomical issues that affect it's development. These are poorly described and...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kiarash Taghavi
Direct clinical relevance: high. Hands-on learning opportunities: Various aspects of work with mice, workup of tissues for various downstream...
Supervisor: Prof Claudia Nold
The Paediatric Emergency Department at Monash Medical Centre is involved in a large number of clinical research projects, ranging from single-centre...
Supervisor: Simon Craig
Global Surgery has changed in focus since the publication of the Lancet Commission. There is an increased focus on the upskilling and increased...
Supervisor: A/Professor Ram Nataraja
There is emerging evidence from overseas quality network that disparities in health outcomes is influenced by social determinanta of health. For...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
This project utilises an innovative solution to a major health care problem. Behavioural emergencies, such as aggression and self-harm, are...
Supervisor: Dr Marijke Mitchell