Research Projects
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
Beyond the diet: Contextual (placebo) effects in dietary counselling for gastrointestinal conditions
Contextual factors refer to the psychological, social, and physical elements present during clinical interactions between patients and healthcare...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Heidi Staudacher
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
Mitochondria are essential for metabolism, signalling, and adaptation, yet the molecular basis for their extraordinary diversity remains poorly...
Supervisor: Associate Professor James Letts
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
Background: Cell-based therapeutics have made advances in recent years. One of the most clinically studied products in regenerative medicine is...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tracy Heng
Sex‑based biological differences are increasingly recognised as important determinants of health, yet the menstrual cycle remains largely overlooked...
Supervisor: Dr Aimee Dordevic
For cells to function and therefore life to exist, proteins have to be processed and their constituents recycled or destroyed. The Proteasome is the...
Supervisor: A/Prof Vivek Naranbhai
Systemic Lupus Erythematous is a complex heterogeneous disease in which the pathogenesis remains poorly understood. The measurement of immune...
Supervisor: Professor Eric Morand
Background: Heart failure remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality despite significant advances in treatment. Patients with heart failure...
Supervisor: Professor Morag J. Young
A biomarker is an objectively measured characteristic of a normal or pathologic biological process. The development of novel interventions to treat,...
Supervisor: A/Prof Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has a mortality rate 12 times higher than the annual death rate from all causes in females aged 15 to 24. Currently, there is...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Oldfield
We propose pioneering studies to prevent the consequences of infection-related exacerbations of
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that...
Supervisor: Professor Philip Bardin
Blood clots and stroke from atrial fibrilation in the left atrial appendage based on fluid mechanics
Atrial fibrillation greatly increases the risk of ischemic stroke. This is primarily due to clots forming in the left atrial appendage, embolizing,...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Dave Bark
Brain edema occurs soon after stroke onset. This occurrence can be visually difficult to detect early, To accentuate this detection, we use a...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Surgery is the most effective treatment for stopping seizures in epilpesy. But which patients will benefit from surgery, and how to best perform the...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Sinclair