Research Projects
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
Professor Julian Smith is searching for an outstanding PhD candidate for the pumpless intra-aortic balloon heart assist device project. There will be...
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
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
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: Assoc Prof 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
Immune cells acutely provide critical inflammatory signals that are required to restrict damage and initiate recovery after injury. However, over-...
Supervisor: Dr Jan Kaslin
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
Sleep is fundamental to physical and mental health. Sleep and circadian rhythms (body clock) undergo tremendous changes during adolescence. It is...
Supervisor: Dr Bei Bei
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
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
More than half of adult stroke survivors report that they experience fatigue after their stroke. It is, however, unclear what causes the fatigue,...
Supervisor: Professor Natasha Lannin
My current research investigates the phenomenon of children who cross over from statutory child protection systems into youth justice systems, and is...
Supervisor: Dr Susan Baidawi
Background: Fatigue is the most commonly reported, most disabling but least understood symptom experienced by patients with chronic diseases such as...
Supervisor: Dr Suzanne McDonald
We have established a large cohort of patients with predominantly antibody deficiency (PAD), the most prevalent symptomatic form of primary...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Menno Van Zelm
We wish to revolutionise the treatment of autoimmune diseases. We are hoping to devise strategies to eliminate harmful auto reactive cells using...
Supervisor: Professor Charles Mackay
Current transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) protocols are designed based on abnormal activity of isolated brain regions. This notion is...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Shapour Jaberzadeh
The academic research program within this laboratory is focused on defining the key molecular interactions underlying receptor recognition events...
Supervisor: Professor Jamie Rossjohn
Are you interested in partnering with patients and families to improve their care outcomes? Would you like the opportunity to engage in innovative...
Supervisor: Dr Pauline Wong