Research Projects
The pathophysiologic progression to heart failure is a complex process. Initial insults such a myocardial infarction or chronic hypertension, trigger...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Bing Wang
Helicobacter pylori is a pathogenic bacterium that infects the stomachs of half the world's population, causing chronic gastritis, ulcers, and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
Snake venom contains many bioactive molecules and toxins with potential therapeutic applications, including anti-cancer. Snake venom proteins such as...
Supervisor: Dr Syafiq Asnawi
Background: Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are fibroblastic precursor cells that have the stem cell-like ability to differentiate into...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tracy Heng
The growing enthusiasm for scalable e-health tools, together with the accessibility of app-based technologies (e.g., smartphones, tablets), have...
Supervisor: Dr Rico Lee
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4-year Doctoral Program; Stipends: $33,413/year; Conference support: $5,000; Industry placement; Advanced...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Sexton
Diagnosis of patients with neurological disorders such as stroke and non-stroke, seizure or no seizure and multiple sclerosis can be difficult for...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) criteria are the international rules and recommendations applied in the classification of a genetic...
Supervisor: Dr Philip Harraka
Australian medical students and graduates have indicated that the preparation for their prescribing roles based on their pharmacology and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Shane Bullock
Psoriasis is a skin autoimmune disease that affects 2-3% of the global population. Around half of the patients carry the major risk gene for...
Supervisor: Dr. Asolina Braun
This project investigates the novel architecture of the power system found in a bacterial flagellar motor specialised for locomotion in viscous...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
Global Market Insights estimates the mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) market size to grow from USD 3 billion in 2022 to USD 10.3 billion by 2032 due to...
Supervisor: Dr Shanti Gurung
Are patients with brain tumours satisfied with the care they have received, a mixed method study (retro/pro)
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Patients with suspected cervical spine injury (CSI) caused by blunt trauma present commonly to Emergency Departments. All patients with suspected CSI...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common and potentially curable cause of hypertension. We are part of a multidisciplinary NHMRC funded team...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
The intraoperative period is a data-rich environment that is currently poorly captured by didactic operation reports. Intra-operative events have...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kiarash Taghavi
Clinical practice guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations to inform healthcare decision making and optimise patient care. The primary...
Supervisor: Dr Anneliese Synnot
The ASPREE clinical trial commenced in 2010 and finished in 2017, was a multi-centre clinical trial looking at whether low dose aspirin could prolong...
Supervisor: Dr Suzanne Orchard
Studies in the Ryan lab involve understanding how protein complexes are built and how mutations in proteins cause defects in assembly. Our models are...
Supervisor: Professor Mike Ryan
In Australia, more than 2,000 people are diagnosed with gastric cancer and around 1,600 with oesophageal cancer every year. Survival outcomes for...
Supervisor: Dr Geraldine Ooi