Research Projects
Post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and morbidity. This potentially life-threatening condition can be...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kirsten Palmer
Community pharmacist have the potential to provide accessible health services to adolescents and the potential to improve adolescent’s access to...
Supervisor: Dr Anisa Assifi
Based at the Central Clinical School, our laboratory works closely with clinicians at the Alfred Hospital to study mechanisms of cancer development...
Supervisor: Dr Gamze Kuser Abali
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common mental illness characterised by recurrent distressing mental obsessions and behavioural compulsions....
Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Segrave
During a manic episode there can be increased goal-directed activities (either socially, vocationally, and sexually) and involvement in pleasurable...
Supervisor: Prof Sue Cotton
Young Australians frequently engage in risky single occasion drinking. This drinking pattern is associated with a variety of harms including...
Supervisor: A/Prof Megan Lim
Pharmacists' provision of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services has expanded from mainly dispensing medications to including services...
Supervisor: Dr Anisa Assifi
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a leading cause of injury and chronic disease and mortality in Australia, and the leading cause of disability or death...
Supervisor: Dr Rowan Ogeil
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a condition characterised by repetitive collapse of the upper airway during sleep and affects both adults and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Gillian Nixon
HIV maturation is a highly regulated process, and viral protease has to cleave precursor of the main structural protein Gag in a sequential manner....
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Alex De Marco
Cellular aging is a complex biological process involving a gradual decline in cellular function and increased vulnerability to disease. It is...
Supervisor: Dr Iman Azimi
Non-ribosomal peptide synthesis is a complex biosynthetic process that produces many medically important peptide natural products, including several...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Max Cryle
Stroke is the third most common cause of death among women in Australia (vs. 5th in men). There is emerging evidence the rising incidence of stroke...
Supervisor: Dr Muideen Olaiya
Paediatric chronic pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as persistent or recurring pain that lasts for longer than...
Supervisor: Professor Richelle Mychasiuk
We are developing a cohort of children who have lost skills and developed autism, sometimes called autistic regression. Using video footage prior to...
Supervisor: Professor Katrina Williams
Plasmalogens are a unique class of lipids that are abundant in certain tissues such as the heart, brain and specific immune cell types. Studies have...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
FIKK kinases are unique among apicomplexan parasites. Interestingly the genome of P. falciparum encodes 20 FIKK kinases, but very little is known...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
Striated muscles including skeletal and cardiac muscle makes up a major proportion of our body mass. Because of their high metabolic activity,...
Supervisor: A/Prof Brian Drew
Clostridium difficile is recognised as the major cause of nosocomial diarrhoea in Australian hospitals and in hospitals worldwide. Chronic colitis...
Supervisor: Professor Dena Lyras
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