Research Projects
Background: Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are fibroblastic precursor cells that have the stem cell-like ability to differentiate into...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tracy Heng
The growing enthusiasm for scalable e-health tools, together with the accessibility of app-based technologies (e.g., smartphones, tablets), have...
Supervisor: Dr Rico Lee
Diagnosis of patients with neurological disorders such as stroke and non-stroke, seizure or no seizure and multiple sclerosis can be difficult for...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) criteria are the international rules and recommendations applied in the classification of a genetic...
Supervisor: Dr Philip Harraka
Australian medical students and graduates have indicated that the preparation for their prescribing roles based on their pharmacology and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Shane Bullock
The project will contribute to work being undertaken as part of a recently funded NHMRC grant within the National Centre for Healthy Ageing....
Supervisor: Professor Nadine Andrew
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
This project investigates the novel architecture of the power system found in a bacterial flagellar motor specialised for locomotion in viscous...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
Arcuate fasciculus cortico-cortical and axono-cortical evoked potentials as biomarkers of post-operative language function in supratentorial glioma:...
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Clinical research is the cornerstone of evidence-based medicine and the foundation of modern healthcare. While the design and quality of studies can...
Supervisor: Professor Ben Mol
Are patients with brain tumours satisfied with the care they have received, a mixed method study (retro/pro)
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Patients with suspected cervical spine injury (CSI) caused by blunt trauma present commonly to Emergency Departments. All patients with suspected CSI...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Therapeutic proteins such as insulin (a hormone for diabetes), erythropoietin (a growth factor for anemia), interferons (cytokines for immune...
Supervisor: Dr Ram Bhusal
The intraoperative period is a data-rich environment that is currently poorly captured by didactic operation reports. Intra-operative events have...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kiarash Taghavi
This is a multi-centre pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT) to assess the efficacy of oral azithromycin in eliminating amniotic fluid sludge (AFS...
Supervisor: Professor Michelle Giles
Low-dose aspirin effectively prevents preterm pre-eclampsia in singleton pregnancies (ASPRE trial, Rolnik et al. NEJM 2017). We are currently...
Supervisor: Daniel Rolnik
The ASPREE clinical trial commenced in 2010 and finished in 2017, was a multi-centre clinical trial looking at whether low dose aspirin could prolong...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Suzanne Orchard
UTIs are extremely common, affecting >400-million people worldwide annually. The burden of UTIs is increasing globally and is complicated by...
Supervisor: Dr Iain Abbott
Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine condition in women of reproductive age with reproductive, metabolic and...
Supervisor: Dr Kay Nguo
Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine condition in women of reproductive age with reproductive, metabolic and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Lisa Moran