Research Projects
Evidence-based practice is often coined as an important factor to inform clinical practice of new health professional graduates. However, the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ted Brown
A PhD project to study the developmental biology and evolution of fin musculature using zebrafish and basal gnathastome models including shark.
Supervisor: Professor Peter Currie
This project is based in the National Centre for Healthy Ageing, a partnership between Monash University and Peninsula Health. This project will...
Supervisor: Dr Alison Carver
***Background***
It is important to communicate about overdiagnosis to the public. Public health messaging is a vital part of this. However, modern...
Supervisor: Mr Tomas Rozbroj
In recent years, there has been a growing appreciation of the role that subconscious “cognitive biases” play in addiction. This has led to the...
Supervisor: Professor Victoria Manning
***Background***
It is important to raise public awareness about overdiagnosis and overtreatment (ODx). ODx is a major problem in healthcare. It...
Supervisor: Mr Tomas Rozbroj
Bariatric surgery is currently the most effective treatment for obesity. While most people will experience improvements in overall quality of life...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Priya Sumithran
Oesophageal adenocarcinoma is one the cancers most closely associated with obesity and has demonstrated a 400% increase over the past 30 years. The...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
Many emergency personnel engage in shift work, which exposes them to sleep loss and working during the biological night (i.e., circadian misalignment...
Supervisor: Dr Alexander Wolkow
A sudden worsening of respiratory symptoms in Chronic obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is called a flare up. These flare ups are caused by...
Supervisor: Dr Arwel Jones
Exercise has been shown to reduce disability and improve fitness after stroke. Despite strong evidence exercise programs are not commonly included in...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon Kramer
Movement is natural to us. From slowly crawling out of bed to the occasional dash to catch the bus, our muscles are hardwired to mechanically comply...
Supervisor: Dr. William Roman
Preliminary data from the Nguyen-Daly lab has identified Fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) as promising therapeutic targets for triple-...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
Project description: Impaired differentiation is a common feature of cancer. We have recently demonstrated the differentiation potential of histone...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jason Cain
Over the past few years we have generated a new and exciting data set profiling the lipid compositions (lipidome) of 16 different human immune cells...
Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Murphy
Surprisingly little is known about the immune system and the microbiome of preterm infants, which therefore represent problematically blank pages for...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
Exploring antimicrobial resistance plasmid diversity at a single hospital network in a 7-year period
Plasmid transmission between bacteria of the same or different species is an important driver of genetic diversity, bacterial adaptation and...
Supervisor: Dr Margaret Lam
Aboriginal patients experience a disproportionate burden of cardiovascular disease, with hypertension being a key modifiable risk factor. The...
Supervisor:
Diets rich in salt have been linked to bone pathologies. This has generally been attributed to mineral exchange, causing weaker bones. However, our...
Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Murphy
Metabolite based T cell immunity is emerging as a major player in antimicrobial immunity, autoimmunity, metabolic diseases, and cancer. Namely,...
Supervisor: Dr Wael Awad