Research Projects
Motor Neuron Disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease which affects the brain and spinal cord. We have acquired serial MR imaging data on 3...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Recently, renal denervation (removing the renal nerves) has been shown to be an effective and safe treatment for human resistant hypertension and is...
Supervisor: Professor Katherine Denton
Tumours lose features of multicellularity, such as tissue differentiation and coordinated cell division, and start to resemble colonial unicellular...
Supervisor: Dr David Goode
Most prediction models to date in Obstetrics have been developed to predict and identify women at increased risk pregnancy complications.
In...
Supervisor: Daniel Rolnik
We will be using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms to understand how different part of the brain are connected to each other to...
Supervisor: Dr. Adeel Razi
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1) Predict which patients with epilepsy will become seizure...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Sinclair
Air quality monitoring stations are limited in the world. It is impossible to assess the health impacts of air pollution in some areas without air...
Supervisor: Professor Yuming Guo
Are you passionate about leveraging machine learning to revolutionize healthcare? Join our cutting-edge PhD project focused on applying advanced...
Supervisor: Professor Arul Earnest
The current standard of care for epilepsy is to commence treatment with a single antiseizure medication (ASM) and if it fails, try successive drug...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
The aim of this project is to integrate clinical information on brain tumor and genomic characterization data of the biopsied material. The student...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Cancer follows an evolutionary process shaped by the environment of the tumour. Deciphering which genes and processes enable tumour cells to adapt to...
Supervisor: Dr David Goode
Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a serious and unpredictable complication of traumatic brain
injury (TBI). Identifying reliable electrophysiological...
Supervisor: Dr Matt Hudson
Despite the huge success of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, unwanted inflammation due to activation of...
Supervisor: Prof Michael Gantier
'Making it Personal' is a multi-disciplinary research program led by Dr Suzanne McDonald that uses N-of-1 designs, digital technologies,...
Supervisor: Dr Suzanne McDonald
Protective immunity to malaria is mediated by antibodies that block parasite growth. Antibody development occurs within the germinal centres, and...
Supervisor: A/Prof Michelle Boyle
Twin reverse arterial perfusion syndrome (TRAP) is a rare complication in twin pregnancies in which a structurally abnormal, acardiac twin that is...
Supervisor: Daniel Rolnik
Seventy million people have epilepsy with 34–76 per 100,000 developing the condition every year. To formulate rational treatment plans, it is...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Background: Obesity and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) are two of the most significant health care problems facing our community – they are...
Supervisor: Professor Wendy Brown
The discovery of a hepatitis C (HCV) treatment has the potential to lead to disease elimination, with smaller countries such as Iceland likely to be...
Supervisor: Dr Nick Scott
Our laboratory aims to create new knowledge in host-pathogen interactions driven by intracellular bacterial pathogens. Our research team has projects...
Supervisor: Professor Hayley Newton