Research Projects
Evaluation of treatment outcomes following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: a prospective audit
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Ideal body size has changed over time. Blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe was idolised in the 1950’s, whereas the 1990’s saw the idolisation of heroin...
Supervisor: Dr Nicole Thomas
Responding to the climate crisis and other planetary health problems represents one of the greatest challenges of our time. Based at the Australian...
Supervisor: Dr Miranda Cumpston
Evidence-based practice is often coined as an important factor to inform clinical practice of new health professional graduates. However, the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ted Brown
A PhD project to study the developmental biology and evolution of fin musculature using zebrafish and basal gnathastome models including shark.
Supervisor: Professor Peter Currie
Protein folding stability is a fundamental property that determines whether a protein adopts its functional three-dimensional structure or remains...
Supervisor: Dr Ram Bhusal
Loneliness and social isolation represent major public health challenges, with one in four Australians experiencing problematic levels of loneliness...
Supervisor: Dr Lidia Engel
In recent years, there has been a growing appreciation of the role that subconscious “cognitive biases” play in addiction. This has led to the...
Supervisor: Professor Victoria Manning
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Many people turn to the internet to research health concerns, and knee arthroscopy is a common topic of interest for those with...
Supervisor: Mr Tomas Rozbroj
Oesophageal adenocarcinoma is one the cancers most closely associated with obesity and has demonstrated a 400% increase over the past 30 years. The...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
Many emergency personnel engage in shift work, which exposes them to sleep loss and working during the biological night (i.e., circadian misalignment...
Supervisor: Dr Alexander Wolkow
A sudden worsening of respiratory symptoms in Chronic obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is called a flare up. These flare ups are caused by...
Supervisor: Dr Arwel Jones
Imagine a world where every expecting mother has access to accurate and reliable information about exercising during pregnancy. A world where she can...
Supervisor: Dr Filippe Oliveira
Exercise has been shown to reduce disability and improve fitness after stroke. Despite strong evidence exercise programs are not commonly included in...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon Kramer
Movement is natural to us. From slowly crawling out of bed to the occasional dash to catch the bus, our muscles are hardwired to mechanically comply...
Supervisor: Dr. William Roman
Meta-analysis represents the highest level of evidence synthesis. Induction of labour is among the most frequently performed obstetric procedures...
Supervisor: Professor Ben Mol
There is a lack of literature understanding the experience of people in larger bodies who also experience eating disorders. Often the experiences...
Supervisor: Dr Christie Bennett
Preliminary data from the Nguyen-Daly lab has identified Fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) as promising therapeutic targets for triple-...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
The Switch/Sucrose Non-Fermentable (SWI/SNF) DNA remodelling complexes regulate gene expression and aberrant SWI/SNF function is associated with...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jason Cain
Over the past few years we have generated a new and exciting data set profiling the lipid compositions (lipidome) of 16 different human immune cells...
Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Murphy