Research Projects
Neurogenesis describes the fundamental process of generating neurons that integrate into existing circuits. Although originally thought to cease...
      Supervisor:     Professor Zhi-Cheng Xiao  
  
  This is a knowledge translation project for the physiotherapy management of people with bronchiectasis. Following the development of the...
      Supervisor:     Dr Annemarie Lee  
  
  Background:
Informal settlements are home to more than a billion people.  This number is growing annually in low and middle-income countries such as...
      Supervisor:     Dr Rebekah Henry  
  
  Single-chain antibodies against epitopes associated with vascular dysfunction / injury provide a unique tool for specific targeting of exosomes in...
      Supervisor:     Prof Christoph Hagemeyer  
  
  Cancer cachexia is a life-threatening condition characterised by a progressive loss of skeletal muscle and fat mass. Up to 80% of patients with...
      Supervisor:     Assoc Professor Craig Harrison  
  
  Atherosclerosis, the process by which fats, cholesterol and other substances build up in the artery wall, is the leading cause of CV disease. This...
      Supervisor:     Dr Kristen Bubb  
  
  The global threat from antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was highlighted by the World Health Organization in its first-ever priority pathogen list of...
      Supervisor:     Dr Meiling Han  
  
  Anti-HIV therapy suppresses HIV replication and prevents AIDS, however HIV currently cannot be cured and continuous, life-long therapy is required....
      Supervisor:     Dr Anna Hearps  
  
  Atherosclerosis is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease (CVD) related deaths in subjects with diabetes. Residual increased risk of CVD...
      Supervisor:     Dr Waheed Khan  
  
  Inflammation-induced brain injury remains one of the main causes of disability after premature birth. There is no effective treatment. The pro-...
      Supervisor:     Dr Robert Galinsky  
  
  Diabetic kidney disease is an important complication of diabetes and remains a huge medical burden and a major contributor of morbidity and mortality...
      Supervisor:     Dr Phillip Kantharidis  
  
  Leukaemia stem cells are thought to be the source of relapse following treatment with conventional therapies. New and emerging treatments are better...
      Supervisor:     Dr Omer Gilan  
  
  Despite the promising results of immunotherapies to treat various cancer (eg melanoma), they have been unsuccessful for the vast majority of...
      Supervisor:     Dr Marius Dannappel  
  
  This project aims to develop novel antisense oligonucleotides as an efficient and common therapeutic for targeting the polymyxin resistant gram-...
      Supervisor:     Dr Nitin Patil  
  
  Small cell lung cancer is an aggressive and highly metastatic disease that represents around 15% of all lung cancer patients. The majority of...
      Supervisor:     A/Prof Daniel Gough  
  
  The transcript encoding the proto-oncogene MYC is commonly overexpressed in prostate cancer (PC). MYC protein abundance is also increased in the...
      Supervisor:     Dr Luc Furic  
  
  Hypertension is a major cause of heart failure, heart attacks and strokes.  Associated with the development of hypertension is the accumulation of...
      Supervisor:     Dr Barbara Kemp-Harper  
  
  Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an incurable disease and a major cause of death and illness throughout the world.  Whilst there has been advancement...
      Supervisor:     Dr Barbara Kemp-Harper  
  
   We are developing a platform for TCR and antibody-antigen discovery and engineering by conventional serology and T-cell assays, multiplex antigen...
      Supervisor:     A/Prof Vivek Naranbhai  
  
  This project explores the needs of a wide variety of healthcare students to respond to patients experiencing family violence. I collaboration with...
      Supervisor:     Dr Simon Sawyer  
  
  