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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

Kidney transplantation offers superior quality of life and longevity as compared to dialysis. However, whilst short term outcomes are typically...
Supervisor: Dr David Metz

We hold a large scale national partnership grant to advance Women in healthcare and academic leadership and support them to attain their career goals...

Modelling key B cell populations with age to uncover the mechanisms of autoimmunity.
Supervisor: Prasanti Kotagiri

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

Alternative splicing is a regulatory pathway that can can change the messenger RNA produced from a gene and subsequently the proteins that are...

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...
Supervisor: Professor Marie Yap

Early life inflammation causes severe diseases in babies born preterm, including the chronic lung disease bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), the...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold

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

Background Caesarean section (C-section) is a critical surgical procedure to address complications during childbirth. However, in resource-limited...
Supervisor: Dr Md Nazmul Karim

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...

This will be a retrospective review of all animal-related major trauma patients that presented to Australia and New Zealand. The Australian Trauma...

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