Research Projects
The prevalence of risk behaviours such as sharing of injecting equipment among people who inject drugs (PWID) has been well described in the...
Supervisor: Professor Paul Dietze
There is growing awareness of the limited benefits and potential harms of invasive procedures (e.g., epidural injections, fusion, discectomy, spinal...
Supervisor: Dr Michael Di Donato
Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) accounts for 20% of symptomatic epilepsy. Despite multiple studies have identified male sex as one of the risk factors...
Supervisor: Dr. Runxuan Lin
Do budesonide nasal douches increase intraocular pressure? Essentially this cohort would be captured and followed through the complex rhinology...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Debra Phyland
The relationship between sleep quality and surgical aptitude in neurosurgical trainees
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Are you interested in improving outcomes for a vulnerable population and have experience or interest in healthcare, public health, and the aged...
Supervisor: Dr Katrina Long
Our mothers programed the first decisions of our lives by mRNA dumping: the regulated translation of this maternal transcriptome controls the first...
Supervisor: Prof Traude Beilharz
The CLIP health economics program is evaluating the cryopreserved platelets for routine use. Platelet transfusions can be life-saving in trauma,...
Supervisor: Dr Lisa Higgins
Workers' compensation is a form of insurance to cover employees if they are injured at work or become sick due to their work. A key goal of...
Supervisor: Dr Shannon Gray
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that block checkpoint inhibitory receptors including Programmed Death (PD)-1 act directly on T cells to overcome ‘...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Meredith O'Keeffe
Recently, novel genetic variants of GPR75 were discovered to be associated with leanness in large genome wide associated studies. This is the first...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a major cause of pain and disability and accounts for approximately 90% of knee replacements. The prevalence of knee OA...
Supervisor: Dr Yuanyuan Wang
Brain inflammation appears to play a critical role in the pathogenesis of epilepsy. A major cell type involved in inflammatory cascades are the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones
Oesophageal function is complex and various methods have been developed to assess this. Oesophageal manometry, which involves synchronous recording...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
The development of diabetic complications including vascular and renal disease is enhanced in diabetic patients. However, the underlying mechanism as...
Supervisor: Dr Jay C. Jha
This study investigates the role of Smad3 acetylation in the development and progression of organ/tissue fibrosis.
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jinhua Li
Small noncoding RNAs are increasingly recognised as important regulators of gene expression and genome integrity across all kingdoms of life. This is...
Supervisor: Dr Peter Boag
Opiate substitution therapy is an evidence based intervention for reducing the health risks of addiction to opiates. Among people who inject drugs,...
Supervisor: Professor Margaret Hellard
During cell division, bacteria remodel their cell walls, resulting in the release of low molecular weight fragments of peptidoglycan, known as...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
The tyrosine kinase Src was the first proto-oncogene to be identified, and it is now known that Src plays an important role in several human cancers...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Daly