Research Projects
Following a heart attack, medical guidelines recommend that people make many lifestyle changes such as regular exercise, cardiac medications, and...
Supervisor: Dr Denise Azar
Bi-cultural workers—individuals who navigate and integrate two or more cultural identities—play a critical role in multicultural workplaces,...
Supervisor: Dr StellaMay Gwini
To create a model for a HPEDs that will lead the way in the reduction of chronic disease in Victoria through the use of new digital technologies,...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
HealthPathways is a free, online portal that has been established in different regions in each state and territory in Australia to provide evidence-...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Botfield
This is part of a program of research into health aging and understanding how we can prolong healthspan (life years lived in good health), and reduce...
Supervisor: Professor Joanne Ryan
Increasing proportions of women are entering pregnancy overweight (>30%) or obese (20%). Simple lifestyle interventions can prevent weight gain...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof. Cheryce Harrison
The level of mortality and disease among pregnant women and young children in Papua New Guinea is very high. Low birthweight and poor growth during...
Supervisor: Professor James Beeson
Development and evaluation of an experiential web-based simulation to assist medical, nursing and allied health students bridge the gap between...
Supervisor: Dr Marianne Tare
People usually begin to lose some degree of height around the age of 40 and their rate of decline in height tends to increase with age. Such height...
Supervisor: Aung Zaw Zaw Phyo
The problem: Picture this… Cheng is an 83-year-old woman living with dementia in a residential aged care facility (RACF), she has frequent falls....
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The currently identified genetic prostate cancer risk factors account for less than 40% of the familial risk for the disease. Very few of these...
Supervisor: Professor Melissa Southey
Known genetic risk factors for prostate cancer include rare genetic variants in prostate cancer predisposition genes that are associated with high to...
Supervisor: Professor Melissa Southey
For over 100 years the need to understand particular disease causing, bacterial isolates to treat disease has been clearly understood. Importantly,...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sam Forster
Epilepsy is a severe neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures that affect 1% of the population worldwide. Traumatic brain injury (...
Supervisor: A/Prof Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
RASopathies that are caused by germ-line mutations affecting genes residing along the canonical MAPKinase signaling pathway. They constitute the...
Supervisor: Fabrice Jaffré
hiPSC technology coupled with genome editing technology (CRISPR) offers an unprecedented opportunity to study patient-specific disease in a dish....
Supervisor: Fabrice Jaffré
In collaboration with a Maternal-Fetal Medicine colleague from the United States who has been working on the role of Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA)...
Supervisor: Daniel Rolnik
The MACPF/CDC family proteins use a common fold to oligomerise into a ring-shaped transmembrane pore capable of either direct cell lysis or passive...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Michelle Dunstone
Contemporary treatment of multiple myeloma and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) still relies heavily on steroids (glucocorticoids - like...
Supervisor: Professor Jake Shortt
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