Research Projects
Stroke is a major healthcare burden, but wide variation exists in the uptake of effective interventions.  Efforts to improve the quality of stroke...
      Supervisor:     Prof Monique Kilkenny  
  
  Rising maternal obesity, complexity, intervention rates and costs are challenging maternity care in Australia and globally. Our research has shown...
      Supervisor:     Dr Joanne Enticott  
  
  Age-related biomarkers such as telomere length and ‘brain age’ have shown accelerated biological aging and are associated with the accumulation of...
      Supervisor:     Dr Daniel Merlo  
  
  Air pollution (AP) is a major, yet poorly understood determinant of cardiovascular events. This research aims to comprehensively investigate the...
      Supervisor:     Dr Quan Huynh  
  
  The Next Generation Precision Medicine Program focuses on utilising genetic profiles of patients’ tumour models to identify new therapeutic targets...
      Supervisor:     Dr Claire Sun  
  
  Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in Australia and globally. In Australia, ~40,000 people suffer a stroke each year. Survivors often...
      Supervisor:     Dr Muideen Olaiya  
  
  Alternative splicing is a regulatory pathway that can can change the messenger RNA  produced from a gene and subsequently the proteins that are...
      Supervisor:     Professor Merlin Thomas  
  
  An International, multicentre prospective registry for the management of metastatic spine tumours. (MTRON).  
      Supervisor:     Professor Julian Smith  
  
  An exciting opportunity exists for a joint Monash-Warwick PhD candidate to work with a team of experts in parenting, youth mental health, and...
      Supervisor:     Professor Marie Yap  
  
  Early life inflammation causes severe diseases in babies born preterm, including the chronic lung disease bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), the...
      Supervisor:     Professor Marcel Nold  
  
  Research shows that earlier initiation of drug use is associated with a range of adverse outcomes later in life including problematic substance use...
      Supervisor:     Dr Peter Higgs  
  
  The LCT-producing clostridia are an important group of pathogens that cause severe disease in both humans and animals. In most cases the diseases...
      Supervisor:     Professor Dena Lyras  
  
  The Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) was the first facility of its kind to open in the e English-speaking world and the Southern...
      Supervisor:     Dr Peter Higgs  
  
  The incredible diversity of Australian mammals, including the remarkable radiation of marsupials, have been researched for over a century. Yet much...
      Supervisor:     Assoc Prof Justin Adams  
  
   A Prospective Analysis of Treatment Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
      Supervisor:     Professor Julian Smith  
  
  Impact of Time-to-Treatment on Functional and Neurological Outcomes in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage: A Retrospective Cohort Study
      Supervisor:     Professor Julian Smith  
  
  Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels from the existing vasculature, is essential for tumor growth and metastasis. In the last decade,...
      Supervisor:     Dr Katrina Colafella  
  
  The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is one of the most important hormonal systems regulating both acute and chronic blood pressure. The main effector...
      Supervisor:     Professor Robert Widdop  
  
  This will be a retrospective review of all animal-related major trauma patients that presented to Australia and New Zealand.
The Australian Trauma...
      Supervisor:     Professor Biswadev Mitra  
  
  The perinatal period can be a stressful and challenging time, and the exacerbation of pre-existing mental health challenges, as well as new episodes...
      Supervisor:     Dr Rochelle Hine  
  
  