Research Projects
This project aims to develop a greater understanding of clinical reasoning in the paramedic context. It will explore the elements of clinical...
Supervisor: Dr Linda Ross
We plan to conduct a series of clinical studies on a variety of areas pertaining to Atrial Fibrillation and stroke:
1. Investigating anticoagulation...
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Teh
Genetic variants have been found to cause epilepsy as well as affect how people respond to treatment. Whole exome sequencing is a new method of...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Cytokines have attracted substantial attention as diagnostic biomarkers for infectious and inflammatory diseases in recent years. However,...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
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
Understanding the comprehensive symptom profile of someone with a complex neurodegenerative disorder, and developing tools to actively monitor a...
Supervisor: Dr Ian Harding
The menopause transition is a time of significant hormonal changes. Mood changes, including anxiety and depression are frequently reported during the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Caroline Gurvich
Maternal birth injury can have a devastating impact on women’s quality of lives. Injuries incurred during vaginal childbirth are the leading risk...
Supervisor: Dr Shayanti Mukherjee
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
Poor nutrition is an established contributor to delayed wound healing, with adequate energy intake, macronutrients, and some micronutrients, such as...
Supervisor: Dr Peta Tehan
Klebsiella oxytoca is a Gram-negative bacterium that is increasingly recognised as an important cause of hospital-associated infections, including...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Wyres
Background: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy has rapidly emerged as the most commonly performed bariatric surgical procedure in Australia. This has...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
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
Although hyperbolized in media, resuscitation is an infrequent requirement in Emergency Departments. More than 8 million patients presented to...
Supervisor: Professor Mark Fitzgerald