Research Projects
This project aims to uncover sex-specific molecular marks that either predict or mediate healthy ageing and exercise responses in muscle.
The...
Supervisor: Professor Nir Eynon
Inborn Errors of Immunity (IEIs) are caused by rare genetic variants. Despite of major advances in genetics, in many patients no rare causative...
Supervisor: Dr Emily Edwards
When mitochondria are unable to function properly, the proteome changes to re-establish homeostasis. In this project, we will investigate why some...
Supervisor: Dr Luke Formosa
Iron is essential for bacterial growth, but it is severely limited in most environments. Bacteria have evolved clever systems to acquire this...
Supervisor: Dr Francesca Short
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder that affects approximately 200,000 Australians, and strikes at a young age, crimpling people for life...
Supervisor: A/Prof Rachel Hill
Australian women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds are disproportionately less likely than their Australian-born peers to...
Supervisor: Dr Noushin Arefadib
Trauma and uncontrolled bleeding is a major cause of morbidity worldwide. We have developed and structurally characterized potent monoclonal...
Supervisor: Professor James Whisstock
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium that is one of the most common pathogens of people with cystic fibrosis. This organism causes...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce
Bike riding has the potential to lead to huge gains in population health (such as through increased physical activity) and environmental health....
Supervisor: Dr Ben Beck
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease, with differences not only among different patients, but even amongst the bulk of cells within tumors in individual...
Supervisor: Dr Mark Shackleton
The majority of cancers initially respond very well to standard of care chemotherapeutics but invariably become resistant leading to cancer relapse...
Supervisor: Dr Ron Firestein
Individuals with Prader Willi Syndrome (PWS) have impairments in ventilatory control and are predisposed toward sleep disordered breathing due to a...
Supervisor: Professor Rosemary Horne
Dementia poses a significant challenge globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where resources for care are limited. The World...
Supervisor: Dr Angel Lee
PCOS is a common condition affecting ~13% of reproductive-aged women. Lifestyle management is a key initial first-line therapy for PCOS according to...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Lisa Moran
Children who experience excessive daytime sleepiness are referred to the Melbourne Children's Sleep Centre for assessment of idiopathic...
Supervisor: Professor Rosemary Horne
There is clear evidence for the value for all stakeholders of carer and family involvement in a service user's health care. A major gap in the...
Supervisor: Professor Darryl Maybery
Australian women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds are disproportionately less likely than their Australian-born peers to...
Supervisor: Dr Noushin Arefadib
Pulmonary hypertension is a disease of high blood pressure in the lungs, which leads to increased right ventricular afterload, remodelling and...
Supervisor: Dr Kristen Bubb
The Mpox virus is endemic in West and Central African countries. In 2022, the WHO declared Mpox a global health emergency as infections have spread...
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury