Research Projects
Exosomes are secreted by most cells and have untapped immunomodulatory activity. Cell therapy can be toxic and generate a lower degree of therapeutic...
Supervisor: Dr Kim O'Sullivan
Bacteria secrete vesicles that traffic toxins to mitochondria of macrophages. This project will investigate how vesicle-delivered toxins kill...
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Naderer
Structured reporting, sometimes called synoptic reporting, is a method of clinical documentation that captures and displays specific radiological...
Supervisor: Dr Lin Li
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Early identification and referral of patients with unmet needs to supportive...
Supervisor: Dr Liane Ioannou
We know how important sleep is when one is recovering following illness and injury. However many things interrupt sleep in hospital settings both in...
Supervisor: Dr Rowan Ogeil
Bats are a major reservoir of viruses such as Hendra virus, Ebola virus, and coronaviruses that are pathogenic in humans but not in bats. The reason...
Supervisor: Professor Gilda Tachedjian
Traditionally, the ischemic penumbra has been analyses using volumetric approach. Information on neuroanatomy and vascular anatomy are not used in...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
This PhD will extend the work that is already done in terms of developing Bayesian spatio-temporal models which incorporate individual level data and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Arul Earnest
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
The project involves design, testing and analysis of a novel dermal-epidermal engineered skin graft in animals for full-thickness wound closure.
Supervisor: Dr Shiva Akbarzadeh
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
Systemic Lupus Erythematous is a complex heterogeneous disease in which the pathogenesis remains poorly understood. The measurement of immune...
Supervisor: Professor Eric Morand