Research Projects
Development and validation of an operating room orientation educational programme for Novices
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
The operating room theatre environment can be a potential confronting and difficult environment for novices including medical students and nursing...
Supervisor: A/Professor Ram Nataraja
Development and validation of augmented reality headsets for remote operating assisting in a low resource setting.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Point-of-care (POC) testing is the testing at the site of patient care. It is done on patients conveniently and immediately allowing patients and...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Women of reproductive age are on an accelerated pathway to obesity development. Pregnancy is a recognised high-risk life stage that increases weight...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof. Cheryce Harrison
Our project aims to evaluate a new light-activated medical device, Lumi-Solve, for the safer and more effective treatment of vascular disease. Drug...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anthony Dear
Snake envenomation has been identified as a neglected tropical disease responsible for a high morbidity and mortality rate, especially in Southeast...
Supervisor: Dr Syafiq Asnawi
It is estimated that half of the world’s population have Helicobacter pylori infection. This bacterium lives in the stomach where it causes...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
More than 200 children are diagnosed with high-risk cancer in Australia each year. Over 140 of these children still lose their life due to the...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
The project aims to develop and deploy to the scientific community a robust method to target and isolate discrete regions within a frozen biological...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Alex De Marco
The study aims to understand how preterm babies develop the ability to recognise and understand faces. Exposure to faces and facial expressions are...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Flora Wong
We introduced a novel concept of the functional role of CRP as a ‘pro-inflammatory agent'. This concept is based on our findings that pentameric...
Supervisor: Professor Karlheinz Peter
the development of clinically relevant cancer models that recapitulate human cancer is key to both understanding biological mechanisms of cancer...
Supervisor: Dr Ron Firestein
Heart failure (HF) is the commonest cardiovascular cause for hospital admission in people aged >65years. It has become increasingly evident that...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Bing Wang
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in Malaysia, with ischaemic heart disease alone accounting for 15% of deaths in 2020....
Supervisor: Dr Amutha Ramadas
Adaptive optics (AO) are used to improve the performance of optical systems. Through the use of AO, it is possible to compensate for any distortion...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Alex De Marco
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive primary brain cancer, and with current conventional treatment the average life expectancy is only 12-18 months....
Supervisor: Dr Mastura Monif
Recruitment for this study has concluded, and analyses are in their early phases. The D2 study aims to establish whether subjects with diabetes and...
Supervisor: Prof Amy Brodtmann
Women with a history of gestational diabetes are at 10 times increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes and twice as likely to develop...
Supervisor: Dr Siew Lim
Many patients with epilepsy suffer from debilitating mood disorders, including depression. These psychiatric conditions are the major determinants of...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones