Research Projects
The application of whole genome sequencing (WGS) in the clinical care of patients with epilepsy is increasingly viable as the cost of these assays...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Cycling for transport has the potential to lead to huge gains in population health (such as through increased physical activity) and environmental...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Beck
Hepatitis B infection affects over 257 million people worldwide and is a major public health issue. Without timely treatment, chronic hepatitis B...
Supervisor: Dr Jess Howell
Choosing Wisely Australia activities are being implemented in health services across Australia. The focus is on improving high value care and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Philip Russo
The Y-chromosome gene, SRY, is widely expressed in the male brain, such as the substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area (VTA), pre-frontal cortex (...
Supervisor: Dr Joohyung Lee
Cancer immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of many cancers, but this potentially effective treatment can also cause significant side-...
Supervisor: Dr Miles Andrews
Pattern recognition receptors, including Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and NOD-like receptors (NLRs), are key components of the innate immune response....
Supervisor: Dr Kate Lawlor
The World Mosquito Program (WMP; based at Monash University) has pioneered a novel biocontrol tool, Wolbachia, that controls the transmission of...
Supervisor: Dr. Johanna Fraser
The student will investigate and determine the evidence behind the use of antidote (acetylcysteine) cessation in the treatment of paracetamol...
Supervisor: Professor Anselm Wong
Gastric cancer kills ~1 million people worldwide each year and has an average 5-year survival rate of 19%. It is, therefore, a cancer of unmet need....
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan
Osteosarcoma is the most prevalent primary malignant tumour of the bone, mainly affecting teenagers and young adults, particularly during growth...
Supervisor: Dr Jason Cain
Pasteurella multocida is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen that causes a number of different diseases in cattle,
pigs and poultry, resulting in...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce
Background: Macrophages play an important role in the innate immune response. While not as clearly defined as that within the adaptive immune system...
Supervisor: Dr Jess Salmon
The mRNA therapeutics have emerged as a high potent new class of drug, revolutionizing disease treatments, such as therapeutic vaccines, monoclonal...
Supervisor: Nanoantibiotics - SHEN LAB
Antibiotic-resistance is a major problem in hospitals and different community settings. Dendritic cells are sentinel cells of the innate immune...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Meredith O'Keeffe
The contraceptive pill has been linked to depressive mood. It has been hypothesised that the progesterone components of the pill are likely to drive...
Supervisor: Professor Jayashri Kulkarni
There are over 7,000 rare diseases that on average take ~4 years to diagnose, during which families consult on average 5 doctors and receive 3...
Supervisor: Professor Katrina Williams
Designing, analysing and interpreting evidence from interrupted time series studies in public health
The interrupted time series (ITS) study design is frequently used to evaluate the effects of policy and health systems interventions, providing...
Supervisor: Dr Joanne McKenzie
Determination of intermediate surgical skill in surgeons, a simulation-based educational validation study
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
There is a well defined difference between a novice and an expert in surgical training and simulation-based educational programmes and research....
Supervisor: A/Professor Ram Nataraja