Research Projects
Australia has an estimated 3000+ needle and syringe distribution outlets, servicing an estimated population of 90,000 people who inject drugs (PWID...
Supervisor: Dr Peter Higgs
Over the past years, our scientific and clinical research team has pursued basic discovery and preclinical research into the skin autoimmune disease...
Supervisor: Dr. Asolina Braun
Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) are a form of regulated cell death to enhance host protection against infection. However, they also have the...
Supervisor: Dr Kim O'Sullivan
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
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
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
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an urgent global health challenge that threatens our healthcare system and many of the advances of modern medicine...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic
My laboratory utilises structural biology methods to investigate the structure and function of protein and protein-nucleic acid complexes important...
Supervisor: Dr Wilson Wong
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
The type I interferons (IFNs) are cytokines pivotal to the host innate immune response, which protects against viral and bacterial infections and...
Supervisor: Dr Nicole De Weerd
The type I interferons (IFNs) are cytokines pivotal to the host innate immune response, which protects against viral and bacterial infections and...
Supervisor: Dr Nicole De Weerd
We offer students an exciting opportunity to undertake translational research to improve treatment and control of STIs and genital infections,...
Supervisor: Professor Catriona Bradshaw
We offer students an exciting opportunity to undertake translational research to improve treatment & control of STIs and genital infections,...
Supervisor: Dr Lenka Vodstrcil
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is typically associated with relatively mild skin or throat infections but may also progress to extremely dangerous...
Supervisor: Dr Danika Hill
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
Multi-drug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB) is a global health challenge that threatens many medical advances. Infections caused by MDR...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic
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