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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

**$5,000 Scholarship on Offer to Successful Honours Candidate** 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...

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...

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...

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...

Systemic Lupus Erythematous is a complex heterogeneous disease in which the pathogenesis remains poorly understood. The measurement of immune...
Supervisor: Professor Eric Morand

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