Research Projects
Pregnancy is a unique opportunity to optimise health outcomes for both mother and baby, not only for the duration of pregnancy but also across their...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kirsten Palmer
Randomised controlled trials are the most important way in which evidence is collected for new therapies, re-purposed therapies or management...
Supervisor: A/Prof Atul Malhotra
Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers) to improve healthcare services and health and medical research is...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative condition affecting the central nervous system. There are over 33,000...
Supervisor: Dr. Nevin John
Haemoglobin disorders, such as sickle cell disease and β-thalassaemia are the result of mutations in the adult β-globin gene. When these disorders...
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
The innate immune system is the body’s first line of defence against infection, and is necessary for our survival. Our cells have evolved specialized...
Supervisor: Dr. Natalia G. Sampaio
Clinical registries play an important role in measuring healthcare delivery, supporting quality improvement and evaluating clinical outcomes,...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jun Yang
There are differences in fracture risk between ethnic groups in both men and in women across the globe. It is important to understand the underlying...
Supervisor: Dr Ayse Zengin
Despite growing evidence for the high prevalence of primary aldosteronism in people with hypertension, it remains under-diagnosed. However, it is not...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jun Yang
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common, and a potentially curable, cause of hypertension, estimated to affect 5-10% of all hypertensive...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jun Yang
Evaluation of a stress reduction programme for active surgeons using wearable technology.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
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
In Feb 2022 Monash Health introduced a new suspected MI pathway. Patients follow one of four streams depending on pre-hospital symptom duration/onset...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Evaluation of treatment outcomes following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: a prospective audit
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Project description: Impaired differentiation is a common feature of cancer. We have recently demonstrated the differentiation potential of histone...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jason Cain
Surprisingly little is known about the immune system and the microbiome of preterm infants, which therefore represent problematically blank pages for...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
Aboriginal patients experience a disproportionate burden of cardiovascular disease, with hypertension being a key modifiable risk factor. The...
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Asians have a higher body fat to fat free mass percentage and greater visceral adiposity for the same age, gender and BMI compared with Caucasian...
Supervisor: Dr Kay Nguo
Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) is a disorder with a growing incidence and hidden clinical burden of disease. At present, there are relatively few...
Supervisor: Dr Shayanti Mukherjee