Research Projects
Over 200,000 Australians provide informal assistance and caregiving to people with dementia, and two thirds of these individuals experience...
Supervisor: Dr Melinda Jackson
How does the brain transform sensory information into decisions? Decision formation emerges from the interaction of multiple processes, including...
Supervisor: Dr Mana Biabani
The neural correlates of decision making and learning in the human brain are relatively well known. However, the question of which regions are...
Supervisor: Associate Professor James Coxon
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a common and costly cause of chronic morbidity in the developed world, which currently affects 85,000 Australians...
Supervisor: Dr Rimma Goldberg
Need for a novel solution.
Despite advances in the treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD), the risk of CVD remains higher in...
Supervisor: Dr Waheed Khan
Central neural circuits subserving nutrient–activated thermogenesis - the basis of post prandial energy expenditure
The ability to treat overweight...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Oldfield
A series of linked projects examining acute management and outcomes following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage, including:
Impact of time to...
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) and passively sensed behavioural data captured from individuals mobile phones will be used to observe a range...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Catchlove
The glymphatics system is important in clearing toxic waste from the central nervous system. This can be analysed by examing the diffusion (...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL) is a non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique used to assess cerebral blood flow (CBF). There are many...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
This PhD or MPhil opportunity is perfect for a clinician who has an interest in paediatric health in Australia, has contemporary pain knowledge and...
Supervisor: Professor Cylie Williams
For the majority of Intersex cases the underlying genetic aetiology is unknown. In males Sox9 is a critical ‘hub’ gene involved in sexual development...
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Acinetobacter baumannii has been identified as one of the top three dangerous Gram-negative hospital pathogens as it can cause a range of life-...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce
Our research program is focused on fibroblast-like stromal cells found in secondary lymphoid organs and tumours. These cells create the structure on...
Supervisor: Dr Anne Fletcher
The release of extracellular vesicles (EVs) is a property that has been conserved by both multi- and unicellular organisms during evolution. One of...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
The brain is traditionally viewed as an immune‑privileged organ, but recent discoveries have revealed that its surrounding membranes—the meninges—...
Supervisor: Dr Zhoujie (Zoe) Ding (Lab Head)
This project will use advanced neuroimaging techniques, including MRI and PET, to characterise mild cognitive impairment (MCI) using data from the...
Supervisor: Dr Ella Rowsthorn
Lipids are key biological molecules essential to life. Lipidomics is the characterisation and study of the complete lipidome of a biological system (...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle