Research Projects
Food security exists when individuals have regular and reliable access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food, which meets their dietary needs and...
Supervisor: Dr Sue Kleve
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small, nanosized vesicles produced by most cells and readily found in bodily fluids which carry surface markers and...
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Tapmeier
I am open to discussing projects relevant to fathers' adjustment to parenting, mental health, relationships with partners and infants and...
Supervisor: Karen Wynter
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
This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary research team that is changing the face of autoimmune disease management, making ground-...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Jones
The Functional Annotation of Tumor Variants of Unknown Significance (VUS) using CRISPR project aims to elucidate the functional significance of...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Sun
Small cell lung cancer is an aggressive and highly metastatic disease that represents around 15% of all lung cancer patients. The majority of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Gough
Bowel/colon cancer is a major cause of cancer related morbidity worldwide. We will use novel genomic technologies (e.g. CRISPR-Cas12) to perform...
Supervisor: Dr Ron Firestein
Background: Acute Erythroleukemia (AEL) is an aggressive and poor outcome subtype of AML that is largely resistant to standard treatments. Unlike...
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael
In this project, we are studying the impact of common antibiotics on the microbiome, the ecosystem of bacteria that live in our gastrointestinal...
Supervisor: A/Prof. Ben Rogers
The β-haemoglobin disorders such as β thalassaemia, haemoglobin E (HbE), and sickle cell disease (SCD) are among the most prevalent inherited...
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
We still do not know why some women suffer from endometriosis and why it runs in some families. The clue could be in the uterine fluid.
This project...
Supervisor: Dr Shanti Gurung
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
To create a model for a HPEDs that will lead the way in the reduction of chronic disease in Victoria through the use of new digital technologies,...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The problem: Picture this… Cheng is an 83-year-old woman living with dementia in a residential aged care facility (RACF), she has frequent falls....
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
For over 100 years the need to understand particular disease causing, bacterial isolates to treat disease has been clearly understood. Importantly,...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sam Forster
Maternity care in Victoria is provided under a number of models of care. Model of care has recently been added to the data provided on all births in...
Supervisor: Dr Mary-Ann Davey
Mitochondria are critical to cellular function, producing cellular bioenergy, but they also have important roles in ion homeostasis, programmed cell...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
Sarcomas are a rare type of cancer that originate in the connective tissue of the body, including fat, muscle, bone, and cartilage. Sarcoma’s can...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jason Cain