Research Projects
A new frontier in biomedical research will involve watching individual proteins work in real time, in living organs. Traditionally, researchers have...
Supervisor: Professor Kieran Harvey
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) affects 1-5% of otherwise healthy children and high rates of children with certain medical comorbidities such as Down...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Gillian Nixon
Plasma cells produce antibodies making them important for protection from infectious diseases. However, sometimes antibody responses go awry and...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
Natural Killer (NK) cells are innate immune cells which play an important role in eliminating malignant and virally-infected cells but emerging...
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps
The development of reliable, accurate, non-invasive methodologies for continuous, long-term seizure monitoring is a critical part of the precision...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
This PhD project will have access to cohort data being collected that investigates women’s experiences of weight stigma in maternity care, a range of...
Supervisor: Dr Briony Hill (Glidden)
This project seeks to understand stakeholder views of interconception care resource and tool needs through interviews with key stakeholders in...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon James
This project seeks to explore what Australian and international guidelines support women's interconception care. Reducing adverse outcomes on...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon James
In 2021, 2022, and again in 2024, Royal Commissions, and in NSW and Qld, inquiries, were scathing of the behaviour and performance of Crown Resorts...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Charles Livingstone
Nearly everybody in Australia has a general practitioner (GP).
Australia's 30,000 GPs are critical to health care in the nation. Their...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
Project synopsis: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a common, complex and chronic disease that can cause abdominal pain, bleeding and diarrhoea....
Supervisor: Dr Andre Samson
Project synopsis: The gut is lined by a single layer of cells that are stitched together by tight junctions. This fragile seal is all that separates...
Supervisor: Dr Andre Samson
What is a patients quality of life following brain tumour treatment (prospective)
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Our work is focussed on understanding the roles and functions of A-to-I RNA editing by the ADAR family of proteins. ADAR proteins can bind to RNA and...
Supervisor: Carl Walkley
Gaming technology provides an excellent modality for children to conduct their rehabilitation outside of set therapy sessions. Furthermore, it...
Supervisor: Mr Corey Joseph
Transplantation is a life-saving procedure for patients with end-stage organ disease, but requires immunosuppressive medications to prevent rejection...
Supervisor: Brad Gardiner
The recent discussion paper jointly authored by UK Public Health England and Association of Ambulance Chief Executive's report 'Developing...
Supervisor: Dr Louise Reynolds
Clinical trial frameworks and funders agree on the importance of engaging with consumers and the community within the health and medical research...
Supervisor: Professor Natasha Lannin
Australians with multiple sclerosis (MS) now have 14 approved disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) to choose from. These differ in how they're...
Supervisor: Dr. Nevin John
Living evidence synthesis products such as living systematic reviews, living guidelines and living evidence briefs have enormous potential to rapidly...
Supervisor: Dr Samantha Chakraborty