Research Projects
Reducing the stillbirth rate is a national health priority. Sadly, in Australia, 6 babies are stillborn every day, amounting to 2000 stillbirths...
Supervisor: Dr Miranda Davies-Tuck
Approximately 9000 newborns die in developing countries every day because of asphyxia – 30-50% die on their birthday. Approximately 13% of infants...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Graeme Polglase
Many bacterial pathogens have acquired the capacity to replicate inside human cells by avoiding cell intrinsic innate immune pathways.Pathogens such...
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Hartland
The Healthy Brain Project is an ongoing study of middle-aged Australian adults (40-70 years) at risk of future dementia. This project will analyse...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara R Cardoso
Health research prioritisation is a process where experts and stakeholders identify key areas requiring knowledge generation within a field....
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
“There is a remarkably close link between where you are on the socioeconomic ladder and your health – the higher the rank, the better the health. I...
Supervisor: Dr Rosanne Freak-Poli
The immune system has evolved to fight infections while avoiding destruction of the body's own cells and tissues. Controlling the activity of...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
: Neural stem cells (NSCs) offer great promise as a neuroprotective therapy against a range of neurological conditions, like cerebral palsy. NSCs...
Supervisor: Dr Courtney McDonald
An international ground-breaking large randomised controlled trial (RCT) ( CI, Egerton-Warburton) and meta-analysis has demonstrated that...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Dementia affects every corner of the globe and has an estimate prevalence between 40-50 million people around the world. It affects an estimate of...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide. The greatest advance in treatment has been the development of agents that...
Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Gough
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide. One of the greatest advances in cancer treatment has been the development of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Gough
Chromatin remodelling complexes are essential for life. They organise the chromatin landscape and set the foundation for vital cellular processes...
Supervisor: Dr Marius Dannappel
Literature review re Ophthalmological Outcomes in treated and untreated cavernous sinus aneurysms
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
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
Project summary:
The health benefits associated with consumption of the Mediterranean diet are widely recognised, and multiple clinical trials have...
Supervisor: Dr Tammie Choi
Despite the huge success of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, unwanted inflammation due to activation of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Michael Gantier