Research Projects
This study investigates the role of Smad3 acetylation in the development and progression of organ/tissue fibrosis.
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jinhua Li
Small noncoding RNAs are increasingly recognised as important regulators of gene expression and genome integrity across all kingdoms of life. This is...
Supervisor: Dr Peter Boag
Opiate substitution therapy is an evidence based intervention for reducing the health risks of addiction to opiates. Among people who inject drugs,...
Supervisor: Professor Margaret Hellard
During cell division, bacteria remodel their cell walls, resulting in the release of low molecular weight fragments of peptidoglycan, known as...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
The tyrosine kinase Src was the first proto-oncogene to be identified, and it is now known that Src plays an important role in several human cancers...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Daly
Under recently approved legislation, the state of Victoria will introduce the practice of Voluntary Assisted Dying in 2019. The legislation carefully...
Supervisor: Ms Katrina Recoche
Heme is an essential nutrient for the bacterial pathogen Haemophilus influenzae, which causes serious respiratory infections, otitis media and...
Supervisor: Dr Rhys Grinter
We are performing in-depth characterization of the microenvironment of human tumours, and discovering new mechanisms used by these cells to influence...
Supervisor: Dr Anne Fletcher
The National Centre for Healthy Ageing Smart Ward is a new and unique concept being implemented within a Geriatric Evaluation and Management ward at...
Supervisor: Dr Christina Ekegren
Background
Appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies in children. The incidence is estimated at 25 per 10,000 (age 10-17), 1-2 per...
Supervisor: Dr Maurizio Pacilli
Zemiotics, or zemiology, deriving from the classical Greek word zemia, is a new body of research which focuses on social harm and loss. As Boukli and...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Charles Livingstone
Background: Paracetamol is a relatively safe & common analgesic used for many types of pain in the emergency department (ED). Current dosing...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The oocyte-secreted TGF-beta proteins, BMP15 and GDF9, are essential for the acquisition of oocyte developmental competence during folliculogenesis....
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Craig Harrison
The oocyte-secreted factors, bone morphogenetic protein 15 (BMP15) and growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9), are essential for the acquisition of...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Walton
Rapid advances in virtual reality (VR) technologies have created the means to immerse people in safe, highly realistic, personally designed,...
Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Segrave
Many rehabilitation professionals are starting to use web-based applications to create and monitor exercise programs for their patients. These...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Lisa O'Brien
The thymus is primarily responsible for generating naïve, self-tolerant T cells from hematopoietic precursors. However, deterioration of thymic...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ann Chidgey
This project seeks to further improve the behavior of our prototype peptide inhibitor CHA-061 against the profibrotic effect of CDA1. CHA-061 is a...
Supervisor: Dr Zhong-Lin Chai