Research Projects
Social media is now a commonly used tool to gather health information, with young people being social media’s main user base (Perrin, 2015). Health...
Supervisor: Dr Hannah Kirk
**New Projects On Offer for 2025**
Kabuki syndrome (KS) is a genetically heterogenous disorder characterised by striking facial features and multi...
Supervisor: Professor Sam El-Osta
Fetoscopic laser ablation of placental anastomosis is highly effective in the treatment of severe (stage 3 or greater) twin-to-twin transfusion...
Supervisor: Daniel Rolnik
Both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are increasingly used in gait rehabilitation, yet little is known about how these modalities...
Supervisor: Trung Dung Bui
Two PhD scholarships at Monash University are available through the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence grant: Optimising the Emergency Response to...
Supervisor: Professor Janet Bray
Many pregnancies in the first year after a birth are unintended, and can place significant physical, social and financial strain on women and their...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Botfield
Incomplete reporting of systematic reviews prevents users of the report from being able to fully interpret the findings and understand the...
Supervisor: Dr Matthew Page
The early life microbiome is highly dynamic in healthy full-term infants as well as in preterm infants. As such, the microbiome is extremely...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
Bacteria secrete vesicles that traffic toxins to mitochondria of macrophages. This project will investigate how vesicle-delivered toxins kill...
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Naderer
Gestational diabetes (GDM) affects up to 10% of pregnancies and significantly increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life—by up to...
Supervisor: Dr Maureen Makama
Bats are a major reservoir of viruses such as Hendra virus, Ebola virus, and coronaviruses that are pathogenic in humans but not in bats. The reason...
Supervisor: Professor Gilda Tachedjian
Are you driven by the challenge of pushing the boundaries in statistical modeling and healthcare research? We invite you to join our innovative PhD...
Supervisor: Professor Arul Earnest
To determine relationship between levels of specific fat molecules (lipids) in the blood and the presence of breast cancer Prospective
To determine...
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
The neural pathways that mediate appetite control many other functions, including mood, motivation, memory, attention and arousal, suppression of...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Lockie
Staying strong, mobile and independent for as long as possible is a priority for people living with Parkinson’s disease (PD) – yet one of the major...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Ayse Zengin
Urinary tract infections are a common cause of bacterial infection, especially in females. These infections are often chronic or recurrent and can...
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Starkey
Binocular rivalry refers to the perceptual alternation that occurs every few seconds when conflicting visual stimuli are presented, one to each eye....
Supervisor: Dr Steven Miller
Peptides are vital for modern medicine, with complex exemplars found to exhibit important properties including acting as antibiotics, as hormones to...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Max Cryle
Clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), is observed as genetically distinct subpopulations of blood cells that have acquired somatic...
Supervisor: Robert O'Reilly
Single-cell analyses are at the leading edge of technological development for cell biology. And, transcriptomics analyses at single-cell resolution...
Supervisor: Prof Traude Beilharz