Research Projects
The neural pathways that mediate appetite control many other functions, including mood, motivation, memory, attention and arousal, suppression of...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Lockie
Frailty is a condition in which the individual is vulnerable and at increased risk of poor health outcomes or death in the event of an illness or...
Supervisor: Prof Judy Lowthian
Motorised mobility scooters (MMS) offer many mobility benefits for older Australians who no longer drive, including maintenance of independent travel...
Supervisor: Dr Linda Barclay
An increasing number of people are seeking aesthetic procedures from botox and fillers through to major surgery like breast augmentation. There has...
Supervisor: A/Prof Gemma Sharp
Effective infection prevention and control practices reduce the risk of transmission of infections between patients, healthcare workers and others in...
Supervisor: Dr Peta Tehan
Globally, stroke is a leading cause of death and disability. Prevention of stroke involves the management of modifiable risk factors through...
Supervisor: Dr Lachlan Dalli
Binocular rivalry refers to the perceptual alternation that occurs every few seconds when conflicting visual stimuli are presented, one to each eye....
Supervisor: Dr Steven Miller
Single-cell analyses are at the leading edge of technological development for cell biology. And, transcriptomics analyses at single-cell resolution...
Supervisor: A/Prof Traude Beilharz
Exploring sex differences in the brain is important for their impact and therapeutic implications for many neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases...
Supervisor: Dr Joohyung Lee
Background: Cell-based therapeutics have made advances in recent years. One of the most clinically studied products in regenerative medicine is...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tracy Heng
A biomarker is an objectively measured characteristic of a normal or pathologic biological process. The development of novel interventions to treat,...
Supervisor: Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has a mortality rate 12 times higher than the annual death rate from all causes in females aged 15 to 24. Currently, there is...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Oldfield
We have opportunities for suitable candidates to undertake a PhD in the Blood Synergy research program based at Monash University.
The Blood...
Supervisor: Professor Erica Wood
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious problem that affects one in six women in Australia, and it is the leading cause of preventable death,...
Supervisor: Dr Georgia Symons
Neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and cerebellar ataxias) are defined by primary degeneration in one part...
Supervisor: Dr Ian Harding
Announcing an exciting opportunity for a PhD student to work with individuals with Huntington’s disease on a cognitive brain training study....
Supervisor: Professor Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis
Obesity is an enormous health concern, both in Australia and worldwide. Our laboratory recently published a function for the ETS-5 transcription...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Pocock
Adipose tissue plays an important role in the development of obesity and its related diseases. In addition to its function as a thermal regulator and...
Supervisor: A/Prof Brian Drew
Serratia marcescens is a Gram negative bacterium that is an emerging cause of healthcare-associated infections and is increasingly recognised as a...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic