Research Projects
Influenza vaccine is one of the most cost-effective interventions to prevent disease, hospitalisation and death, yet coverage rates are variable...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Michelle Giles
Project Aims: Identify genetic markers that predict the risk of valproate-induced birth defects.
It is recognised that women with epilepsy who...
Supervisor: Professor Terence O'Brien
Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients are 10 times more likely to develop epilepsy compared with age-matched controls. The treatment of recurrent...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Gliomas are the most common type of intrinsic brain tumour and a major cause of morbidity and mortality for those afflicted by these highly invasive...
Supervisor: Dr Mastura Monif
Compromised antioxidant defences, together with increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), drives the oxidative stress that accompanies...
Supervisor: Dr Judy De Haan-Klein
Vascular Biology Group (Haematology Micro-platforms) & Platelet & Thrombosis Laboratories The Australian Centre for Blood Diseases.
The...
Supervisor: Dr Warwick Nesbitt
This project will explore the hypothesis that people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) have an altered immune cell response to Vitamin D compared to...
Supervisor: Professor Helmut Butzkueven
The JAK-STAT signalling pathway is critical for propagation of signals from the engagement of cytokines with receptors on the surface of blood cells...
Supervisor: Professor Andrew Perkins
The glymphatic pathway has been proposed as a key contributor to the clearance of fluid and metabolic waste products, such as amyloid beta and tau,...
Supervisor: Mr David Wright
Epilepsy is one of the most common and serious brain condition characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. In most cases (about 70%) epilepsy can...
Supervisor: Dr Ana Antonic-Baker
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) improves life expectancy of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and prevents onward HIV transmission. Despite this HIV...
Supervisor: Dr James McMahon
Multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune, neurodegenerative condition, is the most common cause of non-traumatic neurological disability in young adults....
Supervisor: Dr Vilija Jokubaitis
Ageing affects everyone and everything. It is now recognised that reactive intermediates generated by metabolism contribute to biological ageing and...
Supervisor: Professor Merlin Thomas
Crohn’s disease is a debilitating chronic auto-inflammatory disorder that affects the intestinal tract with a peak onset in young people. Australia...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Menno Van Zelm
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth most common cancer and incidence is increasing worldwide, including in Australia. Currently, people with...
Supervisor: Dr Joseph Doyle
Binocular rivalry refers to the perceptual alternation that occurs every few seconds when conflicting visual stimuli are presented, one to each eye....
Supervisor: Dr Steven Miller
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a serious medical and societal issue. Of particular concern are individuals at high risk of suffering...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Sandy Shultz
Blurred vision is a common complaint in the community, occurring in patients with no discernible ophthalmic abnormality, sometimes in older people...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Owen White
Fibromyalgia is a complex chronic disorder, characterised primarily by musculoskeletal pain and additional health complaints including, such as...
Supervisor: Dr Bernadette Fitzgibbon
Little is known about the effects of lifelong brain infections on the neurological health of the host. Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite infects...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Sandy Shultz