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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...

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...

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

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...

An international, multicentre prospective registry for the management of metastatic spine tumours: (MTRON)

An exciting opportunity exists for a joint Monash-Warwick PhD candidate to work with a team of experts in parenting, youth mental health, and...

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...

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...

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...

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