Research Projects
Rising maternal obesity, complexity, intervention rates and costs are challenging maternity care in Australia and globally. Our research has shown...
Supervisor: Dr Joanne Enticott
Age-related biomarkers such as telomere length and ‘brain age’ have shown accelerated biological aging and are associated with the accumulation of...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Merlo
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 Next Generation Precision Medicine Program focuses on utilising genetic profiles of patients’ tumour models to identify new therapeutic targets...
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
Alternative splicing is a regulatory pathway that can can change the messenger RNA produced from a gene and subsequently the proteins that are...
Supervisor: Professor Merlin Thomas
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: 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...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Justin Adams
A Prospective Analysis of Treatment Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Impact of Time-to-Treatment on Functional and Neurological Outcomes in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
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
This will be a retrospective review of all animal-related major trauma patients that presented to Australia and New Zealand.
The Australian Trauma...
Supervisor: Professor Biswadev Mitra
Curcumin analogues
Curcumin plays an important role in many integrated signaling pathways that regulate cancer development such as apoptosis,...
Supervisor: Professor Dr Rakesh Naidu