Research Projects
This project will contribute to the evidence base on cost-effectiveness analysis in maternal health care. It will involve identifying standardised...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Emily Callander
The aim of this multidisciplinary project is to design techniques and build low-cost, efficient automated solutions for behavioural study in rodents...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi
A hallmark characteristic in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the misfolding, aggregation...
Supervisor: Dr Nadinath Nillegoda
The novel coronavirus first identified in December 2019, and has since been identified as SARS-CoV-2, has spread rapidly around the globe. The World...
Supervisor: Professor Caroline Homer
Improving public cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) rates is vital to improving outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. CPR education is often...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Janet Bray
Neuroscience is becoming an exciting and multidisciplinary field, with a combination of biology, psychology, engineering, and large-data processing....
Supervisor: Dr Tatsuo Sato
Work towards a PhD degree, that will develop a mathematical-computational model of the brain network dynamics consisting of the local and global...
Supervisor: Dr Steve Mehrkanoon
Our laboratory has recently discovered that select Toll like receptor agonists could be modified to present novel adjuvant properties - with broad...
Supervisor: A/Prof Michael Gantier
Stem cell therapy holds immense potential as a treatment paradigm for a number of conditions. However, currently the therapeutic outcome is often...
Supervisor: Dr Mark Del Borgo
The Australian and New Zealand Massive Transfusion Registry (ANZ-MTR) is managed by the Transfusion Research Unit at Monash University. The registry...
Supervisor: Dr Rosemary Sparrow
Cryo-electron tomography (CET) allows for the highest resolution cellular imaging possible at the moment. To get access to all areas of the cell we...
Supervisor: Dr Georg Ramm
Cycling for transport has the potential to lead to huge gains in population health (such as through increased physical activity) and environmental...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Beck
Hepatitis B infection affects over 257 million people worldwide and is a major public health issue. Without timely treatment, chronic hepatitis B...
Supervisor: Dr Jess Howell
Choosing Wisely Australia activities are being implemented in health services across Australia. The focus is on improving high value care and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Philip Russo
The Y-chromosome gene, SRY, is widely expressed in the male brain, such as the substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area (VTA), pre-frontal cortex (...
Supervisor: Dr Joohyung Lee
Pelvic organ Prolapse (POP) is a debilitating urogynecological disorder arising from vaginal birth trauma that goes unrecognised, and culminates as a...
Supervisor: Dr Shayanti Mukherjee
Endometriosis is a devastating chronic disease affecting 10% of girls and women, where cells of endometrial histology form lesions throughout the...
Supervisor: Adjunct Prof Caroline Gargett
Pattern recognition receptors, including Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and NOD-like receptors (NLRs), are key components of the innate immune response....
Supervisor: Dr Kate Lawlor
The World Mosquito Program (WMP; based at Monash University) has pioneered a novel biocontrol tool, Wolbachia, that controls the transmission of...
Supervisor: Dr. Johanna Fraser
The student will investigate and determine the evidence behind the use of antidote (acetylcysteine) cessation in the treatment of paracetamol...
Supervisor: Professor Anselm Wong