Research Projects
This study examines the mental health outcomes for people who are treated in a novel, post-suicide attempt outreach program. The program is one of...
Supervisor: Adj ClinAssProf Judith Hope
Hospital admissions can expose older adults to a spectrum of avoidable and costly harms. Not least of these is hospital-associated functional decline...
Supervisor: Dr Christina Ekegren
Immunity to malaria is slow to develop due to the rapid induction of regulatory cell responses that hamper adaptive immunity. Type I IFN signalling...
Supervisor: A/Prof Michelle Boyle
Male and female brains differ in anatomy and chemistry The prevailing dogma that oestrogen is the key factor involved in brain sex differentiation...
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
This study will be undertaken in collaboration with health care providers in palliative care and addiction services. The palliative care of people...
Supervisor: Ms Katrina Recoche
In order to prepare health professionals and health systems for the impacts of climate and environmental change, there is an urgent need to...
Supervisor: Professor Claire Palermo
Injury creates a fertile environment allowing for plasticity mechanisms to shape recovery. The ability of the brain to reorganize synaptic...
Supervisor: Dr Nafiseh Atapour
Uptake of reliable and cost-effective long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants, is lower in...
Supervisor: Dr Nadia Lusis
Uptake of reliable and cost-effective long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants, is lower in...
Supervisor: Dr Nadia Lusis
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Some diagnostic tests and screening are overused and cause overdiagnosis. This can lead to avoidable patient harms and healthcare...
Supervisor: Mr Tomas Rozbroj
Gastric cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death, claiming more than 1 million lives annually. A major predisposing factor to developing...
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan
A process of primary care renewal is evolving across the developed world. It is increasingly recognised that high performing primary care that has a...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
Plasma cells (PC) are the only cell type secreting antibodies, which are important for protective immunity to fight against pathogens. However,...
Supervisor: Dr Zhoujie (Zoe) Ding
The acquisition of resistance to therapies by cancer cells, sadly, is often inevitable. To effectively treat cancer, we need to understand how...
Supervisor: Dr Omer Gilan
Maternity care in Victoria is provided under a number of models of care. Model of care has recently been added to the data provided on all births in...
Supervisor: Dr Mary-Ann Davey
Mitochondria are critical to cellular function, producing cellular bioenergy, but they also have important roles in ion homeostasis, programmed cell...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) designated psilocybin as a “breakthrough therapy” in 2018 based on its efficacy in treatment-resistant...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Foldi
Developing tumour cells interact with a complex and heterogeneous ecosystem, namely the tumour microenvironment (TME), comprising mutant and wild-...
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan
This exciting project will use genetic techniques to identify mechanisms that control brain development in the Caenorhabditis elegans model. The C....
Supervisor: Professor Roger Pocock
Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a genetically heterogeneous disease characterised by the formation of multiple fluid-filled renal cysts which...
Supervisor: Dr Denny Cottle