Research Projects
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4-year Doctoral Program; Stipends: $33,413/year; Conference support: $5,000; Industry placement; Advanced...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Sexton
Diagnosis of patients with neurological disorders such as stroke and non-stroke, seizure or no seizure and multiple sclerosis can be difficult for...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) criteria are the international rules and recommendations applied in the classification of a genetic...
Supervisor: Dr Philip Harraka
Australian medical students and graduates have indicated that the preparation for their prescribing roles based on their pharmacology and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Shane Bullock
Psoriasis is a skin autoimmune disease that affects 2-3% of the global population. Around half of the patients carry the major risk gene for...
Supervisor: Dr. Asolina Braun
This project investigates the novel architecture of the power system found in a bacterial flagellar motor specialised for locomotion in viscous...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
Global Market Insights estimates the mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) market size to grow from USD 3 billion in 2022 to USD 10.3 billion by 2032 due to...
Supervisor: Dr Shanti Gurung
Are patients with brain tumours satisfied with the care they have received, a mixed method study (retro/pro)
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Patients with suspected cervical spine injury (CSI) caused by blunt trauma present commonly to Emergency Departments. All patients with suspected CSI...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common and potentially curable cause of hypertension. We are part of a multidisciplinary NHMRC funded team...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
Clinical practice guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations to inform healthcare decision making and optimise patient care. The primary...
Supervisor: Dr Anneliese Synnot
The ASPREE clinical trial commenced in 2010 and finished in 2017, was a multi-centre clinical trial looking at whether low dose aspirin could prolong...
Supervisor: Dr Suzanne Orchard
Studies in the Ryan lab involve understanding how protein complexes are built and how mutations in proteins cause defects in assembly. Our models are...
Supervisor: Professor Mike Ryan
Objectives: to assess the effectiveness of embedding quantitative measures into a new model of care to treat people experiencing eating disorders...
Supervisor: Dr. Eva Cecilie Gregertsen
COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing infection and severe disease from SARS-CoV-2. Although vaccination elicits neutralising...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Gill
Leadership skills are increasingly recognised as vital competencies for health professionals including nurses, psychologists, allied health and...
Supervisor: Dr Zahra Aziz
Unplanned hospital transfers are defined as unexpected visits to an acute care setting, resulting in an emergency department (ED) visit or hospital...
Supervisor: Raphaëlle Ashley Guerbaai
Early in pregnancy, the maternal vasculature undergoes dramatic adaptations to help support both the mother and the developing baby throughout...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah A Marshall
A cardinal feature of adaptive CD8+ T cell (also known as killer T cells) responses to infection is the rapid initiation of a proliferative response...
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Turner
Children presenting with suspected developmental or learning disabilities often present with underlying motor, sensory and perceptual skill problems...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ted Brown