Research Projects
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) aim to identify medical interventions that are safe and effective for patients. To achieve this goal, trialists...
Supervisor: Professor Ben Mol
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) aim to identify medical interventions that are safe and effective for patients. To achieve this goal, trialists...
Supervisor: Professor Ben Mol
**New Projects On Offer for 2025**
Metabolic memory is the name given to the phenomenon whereby previous exposure to metabolic perturbations has...
Supervisor: Professor Sam El-Osta
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a severe lung disease that is the main cause of disability and death in premature infants. We have discovered...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Margaret Hibbs
This project will involve assessment of the role of healthy lifestyle in fertility and how to improve lifestyle to optimise fertility. The PhD...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Lisa Moran
Epilepsy is complex brain disorder, and many patients are not adequately treated with existing therapies. New therapeutic avenues are needed, such as...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones
It is well-established that neurons in the whisker area of somatosensory cortex and thalamus exhibit directional selectivity. Direction preference is...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi
Two in three Australians (11.2 million people) are overweight or obese. Obesity is a multifactorial condition, but compelling data shows that the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Antonio Verdejo-Garcia
We have a number of studies examining the neuroscience of motherhood on offer at Monash Biomedical Imaging.
1. Mapping the female somatosensory...
Supervisor: Dr Sharna Jamadar
The Optimise Study is a multiplatform study exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the community; this includes assessing the communities understanding...
Supervisor: Professor Margaret Hellard
Injecting drug use disproportionately contributes to the health and social burden of illicit drug use in Australia. Initiation and ongoing injecting...
Supervisor: Professor Paul Dietze
The prevalence of risk behaviours such as sharing of injecting equipment among people who inject drugs (PWID) has been well described in the...
Supervisor: Professor Paul Dietze
This study emerges from an interest in gaining a deeper understanding of the experience of healing. The research team seek to explore how ways of...
Supervisor: Dr Rochelle Hine
There is growing awareness of the limited benefits and potential harms of invasive procedures (e.g., epidural injections, fusion, discectomy, spinal...
Supervisor: Dr Michael Di Donato
Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) accounts for 20% of symptomatic epilepsy. Despite multiple studies have identified male sex as one of the risk factors...
Supervisor: Dr. Runxuan Lin
Do budesonide nasal douches increase intraocular pressure? Essentially this cohort would be captured and followed through the complex rhinology...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Debra Phyland
The relationship between sleep quality and surgical aptitude in neurosurgical trainees
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Are you interested in improving outcomes for a vulnerable population and have experience or interest in healthcare, public health, and the aged...
Supervisor: Dr Katrina Long
Our mothers programed the first decisions of our lives by mRNA dumping: the regulated translation of this maternal transcriptome controls the first...
Supervisor: A/Prof Traude Beilharz
The CLIP health economics program is evaluating the cryopreserved platelets for routine use. Platelet transfusions can be life-saving in trauma,...
Supervisor: Dr Lisa Higgins