Research Projects
The COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has shown high infection and mortality rates worldwide. Although most people experience mild...
Supervisor: Dr Joohyung Lee
Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers) to improve healthcare services and health and medical research is...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
Globally, stroke is a leading cause of death and disability. Prevention of stroke involves the management of modifiable risk factors through...
Supervisor: Dr Lachlan Dalli
The TRM-SLE project is an international collaboration of expert lupus clinician-researchers, patient, and industry representatives convened to...
Supervisor: Doctor Rangi Kandane-Rathnayake
Stakeholder engagement is fundamental to ensure relevance and translation of research outcomes to end-users across all types of research within...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
Spectroscopy, an analytical chemical technique is an attractive technique for analysing human disease. Biospecimens can be imaged label-free, without...
Supervisor: Dr Charlotte Keung
Non-ribosomal peptide synthesis is a complex biosynthetic process that produces many medically important peptide natural products, including several...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Max Cryle
Computed Tomography (CT) allows for the cutting edge use of non-invasive anatomical imaging of the human body and is commonly used to diagnose...
Supervisor: Professor Karlheinz Peter
Gastric cancer is associated with poor patient outcome due to advanced stage at diagnosis and lack of treatment options. Most deaths from GC occur as...
Supervisor: Professor Alex Boussioutas
Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers) to improve healthcare services and health and medical research is...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is highly prevalent, with an estimated 370 million affected individuals worldwide, and this is predicted to double by 2030....
Supervisor: Professor Colby Zaph
A significant barrier to reducing maternal mortality and severe morbidity globally is a lack of innovative medicines. This is reflective of a broad...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel
Fibrosis is defined as the hardening and/or scarring of various organs including the heart and kidney, which usually results from abnormal wound...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Chrishan Samuel
Current clinical management of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), a common sleep disorder in both children and adults, uses constant positive airway...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Brad Edwards
Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and major morbidity worldwide. Despite this, the current thrombolytic (clot busting) therapies remain...
Supervisor: Professor Karlheinz Peter
Malaria is one of the world’s leading causes of death and illness, particularly among young children. There remains a strong need for highly...
Supervisor: Professor James Beeson
Neuroimaging provides a multitude of non-invasive methods to better understand the pathology and pathogenesis of neurological and neuropsychiatric...
Supervisor: Dr Lucy Vivash
Development and evaluation of a national paediatric surgery simulation-based education programme for consent
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Project combined with Prof Debra Nestel (Simulation Professor at Monash University).
The initial project will center on the translation of a...
Supervisor: Professor Ram Nataraja
We have recently discovered a very potent antibody targeting the chemokine receptor CXCR3, a promising target for the treatment of inflammatory and...
Supervisor: Dr Remy Robert