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
Phase 3 - A Prospective, International, Multicenter, Randomised, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of a...
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
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
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
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
The student would study patients with type 2 diabetes before and after the commencement of insulin therapy. Patients would be studied before and 6...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Christopher Gilfillan
Residents of aged care homes represent one of the sickest and most vulnerable members of the community. One third of residents in residential aged...
Supervisor: Dr Shiva Vasi
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
The aim of this project is to build and test a patient portal developed for men with prostate cancer to assist them in managing their disease. The...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Susan Evans