Research Projects
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major cause of antibiotic resistant hospital-associated infections that can be extremely difficult to treat. The World...
Supervisor: Assoc/Prof Kelly Wyres
Multi-drug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB) is a global health challenge that threatens many medical advances. Infections caused by MDR...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic
Neurogenesis describes the fundamental process of generating neurons that integrate into existing circuits. Although originally thought to cease...
Supervisor: Professor Zhi-Cheng Xiao
This is a knowledge translation project for the physiotherapy management of people with bronchiectasis. Following the development of the...
Supervisor: Dr Annemarie Lee
Background:
Informal settlements are home to more than a billion people. This number is growing annually in low and middle-income countries such as...
Supervisor: Dr Rebekah Henry
Single-chain antibodies against epitopes associated with vascular dysfunction / injury provide a unique tool for specific targeting of exosomes in...
Supervisor: Prof Christoph Hagemeyer
Cancer cachexia is a life-threatening condition characterised by a progressive loss of skeletal muscle and fat mass. Up to 80% of patients with...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Craig Harrison
Atherosclerosis, the process by which fats, cholesterol and other substances build up in the artery wall, is the leading cause of CV disease. This...
Supervisor: Dr Kristen Bubb
The global threat from antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was highlighted by the World Health Organization in its first-ever priority pathogen list of...
Supervisor: Dr Meiling Han
Anti-HIV therapy suppresses HIV replication and prevents AIDS, however HIV currently cannot be cured and continuous, life-long therapy is required....
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps
Atherosclerosis is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease (CVD) related deaths in subjects with diabetes. Residual increased risk of CVD...
Supervisor: Dr Waheed Khan
Inflammation-induced brain injury remains one of the main causes of disability after premature birth. There is no effective treatment. The pro-...
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Diabetic kidney disease is an important complication of diabetes and remains a huge medical burden and a major contributor of morbidity and mortality...
Supervisor: Dr Phillip Kantharidis
Leukaemia stem cells are thought to be the source of relapse following treatment with conventional therapies. New and emerging treatments are better...
Supervisor: Dr Omer Gilan
This project aims to develop novel antisense oligonucleotides as an efficient and common therapeutic for targeting the polymyxin resistant gram-...
Supervisor: Dr Nitin Patil
The transcript encoding the proto-oncogene MYC is commonly overexpressed in prostate cancer (PC). MYC protein abundance is also increased in the...
Supervisor: Dr Luc Furic
Hypertension is a major cause of heart failure, heart attacks and strokes. Associated with the development of hypertension is the accumulation of...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara Kemp-Harper
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an incurable disease and a major cause of death and illness throughout the world. Whilst there has been advancement...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara Kemp-Harper
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and related autoimmune diseases remain incurable, with therapies largely directed at suppressing downstream...
Supervisor: Prof Michael Gantier
We are developing a platform for TCR and antibody-antigen discovery and engineering by conventional serology and T-cell assays, multiplex antigen...
Supervisor: A/Prof Vivek Naranbhai