Research Projects
Unlike a heart attack, cardiac arrests (CA) are almost always fatal. Of the 25,000+ Australians (male and female) who experience CA each year, as few...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Donner
Infectious diseases continue to be a major burden on global health. They contribute to global inequities, especially in low-middle income countries...
Supervisor: Dr Jack Richards
We hold a large scale national partnership grant to advance Women in healthcare and academic leadership and support them to attain their career goals...
Supervisor: Professor Helena Teede
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare, life-threatening disorder of red cell damage (haemolysis), low platelets (with risk risk of...
Supervisor: Professor Erica Wood
Stroke is a major healthcare burden, but wide variation exists in the uptake of effective interventions. Efforts to improve the quality of stroke...
Supervisor: A/Prof Monique Kilkenny
Air pollution (AP) is a major, yet poorly understood determinant of cardiovascular events. This research aims to comprehensively investigate the...
Supervisor: Dr Quan Huynh
The VPCC-Next Generation Precision Medicine Program focuses on utilising genetic profiles of patients’ tumour models to identify new therapeutic...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Sun
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in Australia and globally. In Australia, ~40,000 people suffer a stroke each year. Survivors often...
Supervisor: Dr Muideen Olaiya
An evaluation of the Aged Care Volunteers Visitor’s scheme to improve quality of life and loneliness
Most people will experience loneliness at some point in their lives. Later life can be an especially vulnerable time as people commonly a number of...
Supervisor: Dr Rosanne Freak-Poli
Signalling through many distinct pathways drive normal testis development and are essential for normal fertility in males.
We are investigating an...
Supervisor: Professor Katherine Loveland
An international, multicentre prospective registry for the management of metastatic spine tumours: (MTRON)
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
An exciting opportunity exists for a joint Monash-Warwick PhD candidate to work with a team of experts in parenting, youth mental health, and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Marie Yap
The Planetary Health Division of the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine is currently embarking on the WATCH Study to assess healthcare...
Supervisor: Professor Karin Leder
The JAK-STAT signalling pathway is critical for propagation of signals from the engagement of cytokines with receptors on the surface of blood cells...
Supervisor: Professor Andrew Perkins
Research shows that earlier initiation of drug use is associated with a range of adverse outcomes later in life including problematic substance use...
Supervisor: Dr Peter Higgs
The LCT-producing clostridia are an important group of pathogens that cause severe disease in both humans and animals. In most cases the diseases...
Supervisor: Professor Dena Lyras
The Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) was the first facility of its kind to open in the e English-speaking world and the Southern...
Supervisor: Dr Peter Higgs
The incredible diversity of Australian mammals, including the remarkable radiation of marsupials, have been researched for over a century. Yet much...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Justin Adams
Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels from the existing vasculature, is essential for tumor growth and metastasis. In the last decade,...
Supervisor: Dr Katrina Colafella
The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is one of the most important hormonal systems regulating both acute and chronic blood pressure. The main effector...
Supervisor: Professor Robert Widdop