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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...

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...

A biomarker is an objectively measured characteristic of a normal or pathologic biological process. The development of novel interventions to treat,...

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...

Bladder cancer outcomes at Monash health

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....

Obesity is an enormous health concern, both in Australia and worldwide. Our laboratory recently published a function for the ETS-5 transcription...

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

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