Research Projects
Metabolite based T cell immunity is emerging as a major player in antimicrobial immunity, autoimmunity, metabolic diseases, and cancer. Namely,...
Supervisor: Dr Wael Awad
Standard cytotoxic cancer therapy often causes the death of the oocytes in primordial follicles, predisposing women to infertility and premature...
Supervisor: Dr Karla Hutt
This project is based in the National Centre for Healthy Ageing, a partnership between Monash University and Peninsula Health. There will be...
Supervisor: Dr Alison Carver
Sustaining a stroke is a devastating neurological event potentially resulting in physical and cognitive impairments, functional limitations,...
Supervisor: Professor Natasha Lannin
Future healthcare providers treat a wide variety of patients who vary in gender, skin tone, body habitus, socio-economic status etc. Despite this,...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Lazarus
Polysaccharide capsule is a critical virulence factor in many bacteria, including the priority drug-resistant pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii. The...
Supervisor: Dr Francesca Short
The gastric carcinogenic bacterium Helicobacter pylori has a unique ability to withstand high acidity of the stomach by buffering its periplasm at pH...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
Female fertility and offspring health are critically dependent on the maintenance of an adequate supply of high quality oocytes. Little is known...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Stringer
Asians have a higher body fat to fat free mass percentage and greater visceral adiposity for the same age, gender and BMI compared with Caucasian...
Supervisor: Dr Kay Nguo
Breastfeeding, the biological norm of feeding babies, provides numerous health benefits to babies. Infant-formula-feeding is thought to be inferior...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
The COVID19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of older individuals to suffer more severe disease outcomes from infectious respiratory...
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps
Objective:
To explore the effects of multiple anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a-tDCS) sessions on the right primary somatosensory...
Supervisor: Professor Shapour Jaberzadeh
Objective:
To explore the effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on corticospinal excitability and the balance between cortical...
Supervisor: Professor Shapour Jaberzadeh
Background: Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs), formed via the processing of foods, are a major constituent of our modern convenience diet....
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Melinda Coughlan
Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) is a disorder with a growing incidence and hidden clinical burden of disease. At present, there are relatively few...
Supervisor: Dr Shayanti Mukherjee
Type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD) are two closely related chronic diseases with a high prevalence worldwide. Both diseases share...
Supervisor: Yung-Chih Chen VMD, PhD
Breastfeeding, the biological norm of feeding babies, provides numerous health benefits to babies. Infant-formula-feeding is thought to be inferior...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
Exosomes are small vesicles (50-150 nm in size) secreted by most cell types and are involved in cell - cell communication and regulation of immune...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
In several cancer types, a higher tumour mutational burden (TMB) has been associated with increased immune cell infiltration into tumours and better...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
Pharmacotherapy, when used with regard to substance dependence refers to the replacement of a person’s drug of choice with a legally prescribed and...
Supervisor: Dr Peter Higgs