Research Projects
This project will collaborate with Australian synthetic biology start-ups focused on replacing climate-destructive food industries (e.g., palm oil,...
Supervisor: Prof Traude Beilharz
Preterm birth is a public health concern, and it has been listed as one of the focuses under the Good Health and Well-Being of The Sustainable...
Supervisor: Dr Jodi Law Woan-Fei
Healthcare-associated infections impose a substantial and growing burden on healthcare systems, primarily targeting our most vulnerable groups...
Supervisor: Dr Jane Hawkey
Blood contains a remarkable amount of information about what is happening throughout the body. Yet most current liquid-biopsy approaches focus on DNA...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most difficult cancers to treat. Most patients are diagnosed with advanced disease, responses to current...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
Modern immunology increasingly depends on our ability to measure tiny amounts of biological material with exceptional sensitivity. In cancer and...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
Cancer immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of several cancers, but its success depends on identifying the right targets. T cells recognise...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
The project: Antigen presenting cells (APCs) play a crucial role in establishing and maintaining an immune response towards cancer cells. In recent...
Supervisor: Professor Anthony Purcell
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
Single-cell analyses are at the leading edge of technological development for cell biology. And, transcriptomics analyses at single-cell resolution...
Supervisor: Prof Traude Beilharz
Background: Heart failure remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality despite significant advances in treatment. Patients with heart failure...
Supervisor: Professor Morag J. Young
Immunotherapies have transformed the treatment of many cancers, but not prostate cancer. Chimeric-antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, in which a...
Supervisor: Dr Laura Porter
The microbial communities associated with every surface of our bodies are incredibly diverse, yet we know practically nothing about the majority of...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sam Forster
Natural products are structurally interesting molecules (metabolites) produced in nature by organisms such as bacteria, fungi and plants. The unique...
Supervisor: Dr. Lauren Murray
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
Anorexia nervosa (AN) has clear biological underpinnings, however, the molecular mechanisms that lead to the development of this debilitating...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Foldi
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is an important last-line treatment for advanced prostate cancer. ADT initially works well but eventually fails in...
Supervisor: Professor Renea Taylor
Enduring antibody-mediated immunity is critical for vaccines to provide protection from infectious disease. Despite the success of vaccines to date,...
Supervisor: Dr Danika Hill
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is emerging at an alarming level, rendering some bacterial infections untreatable and increasing dependence on last...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sam Forster
We and many others over the last few decades have contributed to a now much improved understanding of the genomic components of familial risk for...
Supervisor: Professor Melissa Southey