Research Projects
Intersex conditions are congenital conditions where gonadal or anatomical sex is atypical. Intersex conditions encompass a wide range of...
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Profiling auto-reactive B cells and their targets with the goal to identify shared antigenic responses.
Supervisor: Prasanti Kotagiri
Project Overview:
In the ever-evolving landscape of medical research, the pursuit of innovative solutions to combat cancer and autoimmune diseases...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
The deep learning revolution has generated much interest in its use in medicine. Deep learning belongs to a family of machine learning tools and...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Neuroimaging provides a multitude of non-invasive methods to better understand the pathology and pathogenesis of neurological and neuropsychiatric...
Supervisor: Dr Lucy Vivash
This project will use data from a longitudinal cohort of adolescent girls in Oregon, USA, to examine how salivary immune markers are associated with...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Byrne
From early in life we are exposed to trillions of microbes and food proteins through our intestines, and only occassionally are the microbes...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
Project Description:
Respiratory diseases present a health challenge that spans the globe and accounts for one-tenth of all disability adjusted...
Supervisor: Professor Nicola Harris
Continuing epidemic waves of COVID-19 are anticipated in many countries because of emerging viral variants, the moderate efficacy of vaccines being...
Supervisor: Professor James Beeson
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic poses a continued threat to public health and well-being, especially in people who have a compromised immune system....
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic poses a continued threat to public health and well-being, especially in people who have a compromised immune system....
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
The spleen is an important organ of the immune system and it is often removed for the treatment of different medical conditions, to perform surgery...
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
The spleen is an important organ of the immune system and it is often removed for the treatment of different medical conditions, to perform surgery...
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
Aim 1:
Identify the impact of the anatomic handover on Australian medical student’s perception of anatomy?
Aim 2:
How do anatomy conversions of...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Lazarus
Bone responds to loads, where increased loads leads to denser bones. Hence certain exercises are very important and have a positive effect on bones....
Supervisor: Dr Ayse Zengin
Ethnic differences exist in the pathogenesis, prevalence and complications of hypertension. There is a body of work on the high prevalence of low-...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jun Yang
Haemoglobin disorders, such as sickle cell disease and β-thalassaemia are the result of mutations in the adult β-globin gene. Patients suffering with...
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
Despite initial fears, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemics impact in sub-Sahara Africa has been less serious than anticipated. Possible reasons for this...
Supervisor: A/Prof Michelle Boyle
The mammalian oocyte is the largest cell in the body and undergoes two highly specialised asymmetric meiotic cell divisions. Coordination of...
Supervisor: Professor John Carroll