Research Projects
A multicentre prospective registry for endoscopic skull base surgery for the management of pituitary and skull base tumours,
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
A randomised, unblinded multicentre trial of the effects of post-operative lumbar drainage on CSF leakage and meningitis following extended...
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Led by Dr. Aya Mousa and Prof. Helena Teede
Major current projects include:
- Identification of key lipid signatures and their associations...
Supervisor: Dr Aya Mousa
An international, multicentre prospective registry for the management of metastatic spine tumours: (MTRON)
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Description: BetterBrains is an evidence-based, online, person-centred, behaviour change coaching program to help reduce the risk of cognitive...
Supervisor: Dr Darshini Ayton
Evaluation of treatment outcomes following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: a prospective audit
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Although modern humans are now a global species, our ancestral lineage evolved for much of the past 7 million years in Africa. Understanding how and...
Supervisor: Dr Justin Adams
The eukaryotic genome consists of two classes of genes preceded by distinctly different promoter sequences. Housekeeping genes (90%) code for...
Supervisor: Dr Dominika Elmlund
This is a unique opportunity to look at an area of the brain whose function is almost completely unknown. This project will involve exploration of...
Supervisor: Dr David Reser
Immune cells acutely provide critical inflammatory signals that are required to restrict damage and initiate recovery after injury. However, over-...
Supervisor: Dr Jan Kaslin
The study aims at understanding the body composition of infants in relation to the microbiota and will assist in targeting nutritional interventions...
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
pCASL-based angiography and perfusion methods for screening and grading DAVFs and AVMs
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Human challenge trials are research trials in which participants are intentionally challenged (whether or not they have been vaccinated) with an...
Supervisor: Dr Arwel Jones
Preclinical projects on stem cell based tissue engineering regeneration of the intervertebral disc.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is commonly defined as a blood loss of 500 ml or more within 24 hours after birth, and affects about 5% of all women...
Supervisor: Dr Joshua Vogel
Traumatic brain injury can have profound and long lasting impacts on an individuals cognition, emotions, relationships, ability to work and study, as...
Supervisor: Miss Amelia Hicks
The impact of our biological clock on metabolic outcomes changes significantly across the day. We have preliminary evidence to suggest that glucose...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Maxine Bonham
How does the brain represent information about the external world?
Why do we have so many distinct brain areas?
How is the representation of...
Supervisor: Dr Nicholas Price
Mitochondrial replacement technology (MRT), also known as mitochondrial donation, is an emerging procedure used to prevent the transmission of...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Giuliana Fuscaldo