Research Projects
The cells that form into sperm and eggs in adults play a unique and fundamental role in human health and well-being, because they transmit the parent...
Supervisor: Professor Katherine Loveland
We offer students an exciting opportunity to undertake clinical translational research to improve women’s health. Our research programme focuses on...
Supervisor: Professor Catriona Bradshaw
We offer students an exciting opportunity to undertake clinical translational research to improve women’s health. Our research programme focuses on...
Supervisor: Dr Lenka Vodstrcil
There is concern about an increasing number of sexually transmitted infection (STI) notifications in most Australian cities among heterosexual men...
Supervisor: Dr Peter Higgs
Inflammation is the body’s response to injury or infection. A key feature of inflamed tissues is the accumulation of leukocytes (white blood cells),...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Martin Stone
Viruses and pathogens are part of day-to-day encounters that the immune system needs to deal with. How the immune system “sees”, recognises and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Stephanie Gras
We offer students an exciting opportunity to undertake translational research to improve treatment & control of STIs and genital infections,...
Supervisor: Dr Lenka Vodstrcil
We offer students an exciting opportunity to undertake translational research to improve treatment and control of STIs and genital infections,...
Supervisor: Professor Catriona Bradshaw
Research on syphilis and new methods to improve syphilis testing and control.
Supervisor: Professor Marcus Chen
Like many developed countries, the population of Australia is ageing; with 13.8% of the population currently over the age of 65 and predictions this...
Supervisor: Professor Nicole La Gruta
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major cause of antibiotic resistant hospital-associated infections that can be extremely difficult to treat. The World...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Wyres
Anti-HIV therapy suppresses HIV replication and prevents AIDS, however HIV currently cannot be cured and continuous, life-long therapy is required....
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps
This project aims to develop novel antisense oligonucleotides as an efficient and common therapeutic for targeting the polymyxin resistant gram-...
Supervisor: Dr Nitin Patil
We are developing a platform for TCR and antibody-antigen discovery and engineering by conventional serology and T-cell assays, multiplex antigen...
Supervisor: A/Prof Vivek Naranbhai
Viruses and humans have coevolved for millions of years and during this time viruses have armed themselves with strategies to hijack or evade our...
Supervisor: Dr Natalie Borg
The COVCan study aims to evaluate the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on cancer management at The Alfred Hospital.
Background:
Cancer patients are...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Robert Stirling
Our studies provide validation that the impact of dietary metabolites within the gut has local as well as far-reaching anti-inflammatory effects on...
Supervisor: Dr Eliana Marino Moreno
Viral hepatitis is responsible for more deaths globally than HIV and malaria, with hepatitis C virus (HCV) accounting for a third of viral hepatitis...
Supervisor: Doctor Rachel Sacks-Davis
Urinary tract infections are highly prevalent, afflicting over 400 million people globally each year. The most common cause is uropathogenic E. coli...
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Starkey
Climate change has been described as the greatest global health threat of the twenty-first century. It can negatively impact health in many ways:...
Supervisor: Professor Karin Leder