Research Projects
It is now well appreciated that adipocytes are not simply fat storage cells, but can be subdivided into white, brown and ‘beige’ cells, with the...
Supervisor: Professor Tony Tiganis
With collaborators from the UK, Canada and Sweden, we will address the structural drivers of mental illness stigma, as experienced by young rural...
Supervisor: Dr Rochelle Hine
We have discovered that the initiation of a TCR signal in Treg cells entails docking of the Treg TCR in the opposite orientation to that observed for...
Supervisor: Dr Hugh Reid
The menopause transition is a time of significant hormonal changes. Mood changes, including anxiety and depression are frequently reported during...
Supervisor: Professor Jayashri Kulkarni
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most significant and immediate threats to health in Australia and globally. We are working on harnessing...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic
Our research has shown that weight stigma is prevalent across a range of healthcare settings and negatively impacts patient care. We have also found...
Supervisor: A/Prof Gemma Sharp
The current opioid epidemic is one of the most severe public health crisis globally, and this is expected to get worse during the post-pandemic era....
Supervisor: Dr Satoshi Ogawa
Monash Partners fully supports the involvement of healthcare consumers and the community in research, healthcare improvement and innovation. Our...
Supervisor: Professor Helena Teede
Klebsiella oxytoca is a Gram-negative bacterium that is increasingly recognised as an important cause of hospital-associated infections, including...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Wyres
Patients often present to the sleep physician with excessive daytime sleepiness. Doctors rely on patient reported assessments of their sleep and use...
Supervisor: Professor Anne Holland
This position, funded through a Digital Health CRC project, involves research to develop digital technology to foster behaviour change after...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Antonio Verdejo-Garcia
Natural killer (NK) cell activity is essential for initiating antitumor responses and may be linked to immunotherapy success. NK cells and other...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
The PI3K-Akt-mTOR signalling network plays a pivotal role in the regulation of cell growth and proliferation, and is highly complex with multiple...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
Announcing an opportunity for a PhD student to work with individuals with Huntington's disease on a cognitive brain training study. Huntington...
Supervisor: Professor Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis
This project is a partnership between the Brain Recovery and Rehabilitation Group at the Central Clinical School (Alfred) and the La Trobe University...
Supervisor: Professor Natasha Lannin
Self-efficacy is a person's estimate or personal judgment of his or her own ability to succeed in reaching a specific goal. You experience self-...
Supervisor: Dr Nicole Robinson
Holistic care aims to enable continuity of care, with early medical and psychosocial intervention, should an issue develop. Unfortunately, existing...
Supervisor: Prof Judy Lowthian
Genome sequencing technologies have played an integral role in helping us understand the COVID-19 pandemic. Australia has played a leading role in...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic
Background:
Shoulder problems are a significant cause of morbidity and disability in the general population. A systematic review of eighteen cross-...
Supervisor: Ms Romi Haas
Sense of touch (somato-sensation) becomes available to embryos even before birth and is one of the oldest senses in the animal kingdom, yet little is...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi