Research Projects
Spectroscopy, an analytical chemical technique is an attractive technique for analysing human disease. Biospecimens can be imaged label-free, without...
Supervisor: Dr Charlotte Keung
Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers) to improve healthcare services and health and medical research is...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
Development and evaluation of a national paediatric surgery simulation-based education programme for consent
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
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
Development and validation of an operating room orientation educational programme for Novices
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
The operating room theatre environment can be a potential confronting and difficult environment for novices including medical students and nursing...
Supervisor: A/Professor Ram Nataraja
Development and validation of augmented reality headsets for remote operating assisting in a low resource setting.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
It is estimated that half of the world’s population have Helicobacter pylori infection. This bacterium lives in the stomach where it causes...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
More than 200 children are diagnosed with high-risk cancer in Australia each year. Over 140 of these children still lose their life due to the...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
The study aims to understand how preterm babies develop the ability to recognise and understand faces. Exposure to faces and facial expressions are...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Flora Wong
the development of clinically relevant cancer models that recapitulate human cancer is key to both understanding biological mechanisms of cancer...
Supervisor: Dr Ron Firestein
The aims of this study are to test the most effective way to provide feedback to clinicians and hospital executives. The project is being supported...
Supervisor: Professor Dominique Cadilhac
Inflammation in the testis and epididymis can impair male fertility, and epididymal obstruction is a major cause of infertility following infection...
Supervisor: Dr Rukmali Wijayarathna
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is emerging at an alarming level, rendering some bacterial infections untreatable and increasing dependence on last...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sam Forster
Does location affect time to treatment of brain tumours and what is the impact on outcomes
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Does the molecular profile of a brain tumour affect the extent of resection?
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Does using intraoperative fluorescent imaging improve resection outcomes
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Paracetamol is the most commonly ingested medication in overdose. Large ingestions may require more treatment. The successful candidate will...
Supervisor: Professor Anselm Wong
An audit of analgesia provision in the ED undertaken in 2019 found that time to initial analgesia delivery and monitoring of effect did not meet...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Background: The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a key developmental process that plays an important role during epithelial tumour...
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael