Research Projects
There is emerging evidence from overseas quality network that disparities in health outcomes is influenced by social determinanta of health. For...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
Ischemic stroke is due to a clot blocking a blood vessel impeding delivery of blood and nutrients. It can manifest as transient ischemic attack (TIA...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
SAVES-N: A prospective adverse event reporting system for neurosurgical cases
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
BACKGROUND: Postoperative myocardial injury (PMI) is defined as a cardiac troponin elevation after noncardiac surgery, and has been described as “...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jai Darvall
The micronutrient selenium is crucial for the antioxidant response, as well as for immune system and thyroid hormone regulation. Inadequate selenium...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara R Cardoso
Self-care is an important component of health care globally, defined as “the ability of individuals, families and communities to promote health,...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel
The project will focus on developing an energy-efficient and high-performing sensor-based neuromorphic Organic Processing Unit (OPU), an advanced...
Supervisor: Dr Mosarof Hossain
This highly innovative project aims to developi an energy-efficient and high-performing sensor-based neuromorphic Organic Processing Unit (OPU). The...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Workers’ compensation schemes in Australia fund any ‘reasonable and necessary service’ for injured workers with accepted claims. Most research to-...
Supervisor: Dr Michael Di Donato
**New Projects On Offer for 2025**
Diabetic complications remain the major cause of morbidity and mortality and this is primarily attributed to...
Supervisor: Professor Sam El-Osta
Many diseases show sex differences in incidence, progression or age of onset. Furthermore, treatment of diseases
differs between the sexes, with...
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Hypertension and its associated complications affect men and women during different stages of their lives. Our research is focusing on what controls...
Supervisor: Dr Katrina Colafella
International and some local studies suggest women are less likely to receive bystander CPR when experiencing an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. This...
Supervisor: Professor Janet Bray
Stress and sex hormones are associated with cognitive changes throughout life. This project will explore sex and stress hormones in association with...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Caroline Gurvich
Since 2005, we have surveyed over 9,000 people aged between 16 and 29 years of age at Melbourne’s Big Day Out about sexual risk behaviour and drug...
Supervisor: A/Prof Megan Lim
Research objective:
• To generate knowledge and establish how to most effectively implement evidence-based approaches that address sex and gender...
Supervisor: Professor Helena Teede
We offer students an exciting opportunity to undertake clinical translational research to improve women’s health. Our research programme focuses on...
Supervisor: Dr Lenka Vodstrcil
We offer students an exciting opportunity to undertake clinical translational research to improve women’s health. Our research programme focuses on...
Supervisor: Professor Catriona Bradshaw
There is concern about an increasing number of sexually transmitted infection (STI) notifications in most Australian cities among heterosexual men...
Supervisor: Dr Peter Higgs