Research Projects
Review of Stem cells as a therapy for Ischemic stroke (focus on homing molecules)
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Review of Stem cells as a therapy for Ischemic stroke (focus on homing molecules)
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Review of the impact of Blockchain technology on Neurosurgery in the future
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Endometriosis is a debilitating disease that impacts the overall life of individuals. Efforts so far to identify the cause of the disease have not...
Supervisor: Dr Shanti Gurung
Breast cancer, a globally prevalent and challenging disease, continues to impact countless lives. Unlocking the full potential of cancer...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
A New Frontier in Healthcare: The era of one-size-fits-all medicine is giving way to a more tailored approach, where treatments and interventions are...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
Project #1: Developing Risk Models to Reduce Population Attributable Risk (PAR) in Female NCD
Type: PhD (Full-time)
Start Date: Flexible...
Supervisor: Dr Joanne Enticott
Risk stratification and outcomes prediction in patients using applied machine learning and natural language processing
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Here we will combine omics technologies with novel muscle-specific gene manipulation technologies to discover novel signalling pathways controlling...
Supervisor: Dr Adam Rose
Plasmin (Plm) plays a crucial role in blood clot dissolution (fibrinolysis), inflammation, cellular migration and wound healing. Alpha2-antiplasmin (...
Supervisor: Dr Ruby Law
Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) are a form of regulated cell death to enhance host protection against infection. However, they also have the...
Supervisor: Dr Kim O'Sullivan
The Harley laboratory has identified a sex reversed XY female patient with early onset Parkinson’s disease (PD). Through whole exome sequencing, it...
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Natural killer (NK) cells are the founding members of the innate lymphoid cell family and contribute to the rapid production of inflammatory...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
Lytic forms of programmed cell death, pyroptosis and necroptosis, play an integral role in driving innate inflammatory responses and tissue damage in...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Kate Lawlor
Description
Brain inflammation appears to play a critical role in the pathogenesis of epilepsy. A major cell type involved in inflammatory cascades...
Supervisor: Dr Idrish Ali
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
The Bcl-2 family of proteins is crucial for apoptosis (a form of programmed cell death) regulation. The Bcl-2 proteins are synthesized in cytosolic...
Supervisor: Professor Mibel Aguilar
Gastric cancer (GC) is the fourth most common cancer globally and 7th in incidence in Australia. It has a poor survival rate which can be attributed...
Supervisor: Professor Alex Boussioutas
Recent and emerging technologies have major implications for women's safety. Some of these advancements, such as apps and devices designed to...
Supervisor: Dr Reena
The X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis (XIAP) is a member of a family of endogenous caspase inhibitors that act as antiapoptotic factors. XIAP is the...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu