Research Projects
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
Despite advancement in treatment, cancer remains a leading public health burden worldwide. Our understanding of genetic alterations in cancer has...
Supervisor: Dr Terry Lim
Whilst dichotomous thresholds are currently used to diagnose primary aldosteronism (PA), emerging data support the concept of a continuum of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jun Yang
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
Paediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGG) represent some of the most deadly brain cancers in children, differing significantly from adult gliomas in...
Supervisor: Dr Yichen Zhou
Project Overview:
In the ever-evolving landscape of medical research, the pursuit of innovative solutions to combat cancer and autoimmune diseases...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
The deep learning revolution has generated much interest in its use in medicine. Deep learning belongs to a family of machine learning tools and...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Bone responds to loads, where increased loads leads to denser bones. Hence certain exercises are very important and have a positive effect on bones....
Supervisor: Dr Ayse Zengin
Ethnic differences exist in the pathogenesis, prevalence and complications of hypertension. There is a body of work on the high prevalence of low-...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jun Yang
Haemoglobin disorders, such as sickle cell disease and β-thalassaemia are the result of mutations in the adult β-globin gene. Patients suffering with...
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
Epigenetics provides an interface between the environment and DNA function through the ability of epigenetic modifications to regulate gene...
Supervisor: A/Prof Patrick Western
Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers) to improve healthcare services and health and medical research is...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
This project will develop and implement quality improvement interventions which are embedded in an implementation science trial. The trial aims to...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
This project will evaluate the quality improvement interventions that are embedded in an implementation science trial. The aim of the trial is to...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
This purpose of this project is to conduct a health economic analysis of an implementation science trial. The trial aims to reduce unnecessary...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
This project will develop a roadmap for national scale up and toolkits for implementing best practice for peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) use...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
In early 2020 Monash Health introduced a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) assay for assessment of suspected myocardial infarction (MI...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
People with multiple sclerosis (MS) are known to do less exercise and take more medications for disease and symptom management that are known to be...
Supervisor: Dr Ayse Zengin
Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is a serious, but common pregnancy complication, describing the infant that is born very small due to failure to...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Suzanne Miller
Lupus nephritis is an immune complex glomerulonephritis (a form of kidney inflammation with autoimmunity) that constitutes one of the most severe...
Supervisor: Doctor Rangi Kandane-Rathnayake