Research Projects
Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers) to improve healthcare services and health and medical research is...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
Stroke affecting the visual pathway cause considerable disability due to impairment of visual field and driving. Previous study have suggested that...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers) to improve healthcare services and health and medical research is...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
The anterior choroidal artery is a branch of the internal carotid artery and to a lesser extent the middle cerebral artery. It supplies the area from...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Diseases such as SLE (lupus) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are treated by glucocorticoids (steroids), because these drugs are highly effective....
Supervisor: Professor Eric Morand
The gastrointestinal bacterial pathogens enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) and Shigella translocate virulence proteins, termed "effector proteins...
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Hartland
We have identified novel molecules expressed during the early events of ovarian cancer invasion to healthy tissue. We hypothesize that these...
Supervisor: Dr Maree Bilandzic
Stroke is a global leading cause of death and disability. Despite this, there is currently no
treatment to limit inflammatory events which has been...
Supervisor: Dr Joshua Bourne
We set to advance our understanding of the diverse social determinants impacting men's health. By exploring topics like caregiving, loneliness,...
Supervisor: Dr Rosanne Freak-Poli
Mitochondria are critical to cellular function, producing cellular bioenergy, but they also have important roles in ion homeostasis, programmed cell...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
Background: Leukaemia accounts for ~30% of all childhood cancers and ~20% of childhood cancer deaths, representing the most common pediatric cancer...
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael
This research project aims to generate patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived brain cells to model the effects of Type I...
Supervisor: Dr. Natalia G. Sampaio
The innate immune system is capable of intricately detailed detection, differentiation and elimination of pathogenic bacteria. However, the vast...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sam Forster
Interleukin (IL)-37 was discovered in silico in 2000, but received very little attention (not even 10 publications) in general and nothing at all was...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
Direct clinical relevance: medium/low. Hands-on learning opportunities: Culture of primary human blood cells and cell lines, protein detection by...
Supervisor: Prof Claudia Nold
Granulosa cell tumours (GCT) of the ovary are endocrine tumours that both make and respond to hormones. We have recently confirmed a key mutation in...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu
This project involves the translation of findings from mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) to human patients, both with IBD and healthy...
Supervisor: Dr Edward Giles
The paediatric bladder may be affected by many functional and anatomical issues that affect it's development. These are poorly described and...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kiarash Taghavi
Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) results from childbirth injury, affecting 25% of all women. It causes bladder, bowel and sexual dysfunction. POP is...
Supervisor: Adjunct Prof Caroline Gargett
Migraine is a common disorder with estimated age adjusted prevalence of 19089 per 100000 (https://gntem3.shinyapps.io/msglobal/). It is more common...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan