Research Projects
Immunology and Human Pathology are dynamic disciplines, with many inter-disciplinary alignments --in content, techniques and toolboxes. Face-to-face...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Borger
Since the discovery of the “high-risk” genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 two decades ago, breast cancer susceptibility research has identified many additional...
Supervisor: Dr Tu Nguyen-Dumont
A major challenge in cancer therapeutics is to kill tumour cells without harming normal cells in the body. Traditional chemotherapy tries to do this...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
Good sleep is vital for good physical and mental health. The average Australian adult spends 8 hours a night sleeping, corresponding to ~30% of their...
Supervisor: Dr Rowan Ogeil
A multicentre prospective registry for endoscopic skull base surgery for the management of pituitary and skull base tumours
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Friedreich Ataxia (FA) is a progressive neurodegenerative genetic disorder that results in a range of symptoms including incoordination, muscle...
Supervisor: Professor Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis
Researchers from a number of universities, led by Monash University, are currently embarking on a four year NHMRC funded project to evaluate the...
Supervisor: Dr Camille La Brooy
• Lipids are key biological molecules essential to life. Lipidomics is the characterisation and study of the complete lipidome of a biological...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
Preterm birth is a public health concern, and it has been listed as one of the focuses under the Good Health and Well-Being of The Sustainable...
Supervisor: Dr Jodi Law Woan-Fei
Amyloid precursor protein (APP) plays key roles in apoptosis, synaptic plasticity, neurogenesis, learning, and memory, but its exact physiological...
Supervisor: Professor Zhi-Cheng Xiao
Women with endometriosis and adenomyosis suffer for up to 10 years in pain before a diagnosis is made. This is in part due to lack of a non-invasive...
Supervisor: Adjunct Prof Caroline Gargett
The healthy intestine maintains a homeostatic equilibrium between epithelial integrity, a resident immune system and a symbiotic microbiome....
Supervisor: Dr Edward 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
BACKGROUND
Patients with seizures often present to emergency departments (ED) for acute care. Around 6% of the population is likely to experience...
Supervisor: Adj Assoc Prof Udaya Seneviratne
This project will explore the perception of the roles of alcohol and other drugs on micro-mobility injuries. Micro-mobility involves using...
Supervisor: Lauren Pearson
This qualitative study aims to understand the multiple and intersecting barriers to sexual and reproductive health services during the COVID-19...
Supervisor: Dr Shelly Makleff
A randomised, unblinded multicentre trial. The effects of post-operative lumbar drainage on CSF leakage and meningitis following extended endoscopic...
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
The National Gynae-Oncology Registry (NGOR) is a clinical quality registry operated within the Cancer Research Program in the Monash University...
Supervisor: Ms Natalie Heriot
Heart failure occurs when the heart muscle weakens and is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs. It is a major public health issue,...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Morag Young
The prevalence of diabetes and its complications is increasing resulting in substantial health and economic burden worldwide. Self-management and...
Supervisor: Dr Negar Naderpoor