Research Projects
Exposure to infection/inflammation during the perinatal period is one of the main causes of impaired neurodevelopment. To develop effective...
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Malaria is one of the world’s leading causes of death and illness, particularly among young children. There remains a strong need for highly...
Supervisor: Professor James Beeson
It is estimated that half of the world’s population have Helicobacter pylori infection. This bacterium lives in the stomach where it causes...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
Antibodies are an important component of acquired immunity against malaria, and many malaria vaccines aim to generate functional antibodies to...
Supervisor: Professor James Beeson
Inflammation in the testis and epididymis can impair male fertility, and epididymal obstruction is a major cause of infertility following infection...
Supervisor: Dr Rukmali Wijayarathna
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is emerging at an alarming level, rendering some bacterial infections untreatable and increasing dependence on last...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sam Forster
Metabolite based T cell immunity is emerging as a major player in antimicrobial immunity, autoimmunity, metabolic diseases, and cancer. Namely,...
Supervisor: Dr Wael Awad
Chronic infectious diseases have a devastating effect on global health. HIV and Plasmodium falciparum both cause chronic disease and have evaded...
Supervisor: Professor Kim Good-Jacobson
Long COVID is a multisystemic condition comprising symptoms that follow an acute infection. The
School of Primary and Allied Health Care (SPAHC)...
Supervisor: Professor Terrence Haines
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has resulted in a devastating disease pandemic responsible for in excess of 6...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anthony Dear
Vaccines exploit the ability of the immune system to provide heightened, tailored responses to pathogens if the host has been infected prior – this...
Supervisor: Professor Kim Good-Jacobson
The innate immune system is the body’s first line of defence against infection, and is necessary for our survival. Our cells have evolved specialized...
Supervisor: Dr. Natalia G. Sampaio
This project aims to better define rates of reactivation from the point of initial exposure/infection to the later development of active TB. The...
Supervisor: A/Prof James Trauer
A sudden worsening of respiratory symptoms in Chronic obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is called a flare up. These flare ups are caused by...
Supervisor: Dr Arwel Jones
Exploring antimicrobial resistance plasmid diversity at a single hospital network in a 7-year period
Plasmid transmission between bacteria of the same or different species is an important driver of genetic diversity, bacterial adaptation and...
Supervisor: Dr Margaret Lam
Polysaccharide capsule is a critical virulence factor in many bacteria, including the priority drug-resistant pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii. The...
Supervisor: Dr Francesca Short
The COVID19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of older individuals to suffer more severe disease outcomes from infectious respiratory...
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps
Exosomes are small vesicles (50-150 nm in size) secreted by most cell types and are involved in cell - cell communication and regulation of immune...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
Society urgently needs new therapeutic strategies to tackle multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections. Current serious bacterial pathogens...
Supervisor: Dr Julien Tailhades
The Lieschke group studies the haemopoietic system and leukocytes. The haemopoietic system is a collection of organs
and tissues (bone marrow,...
Supervisor: Professor Graham Lieschke AM