Research Projects
It is well-established that neurons in the whisker area of somatosensory cortex and thalamus exhibit directional selectivity. Direction preference is...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi
Socioeconomically advantaged people with multiple sclerosis have far milder disability compared to disadvantaged people, even accounting for...
Supervisor: Dr Anna He
Two in three Australians (11.2 million people) are overweight or obese. Obesity is a multifactorial condition, but compelling data shows that the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Antonio Verdejo-Garcia
We have a number of studies examining the neuroscience of motherhood on offer at Monash Biomedical Imaging.
1. Mapping the female somatosensory...
Supervisor: Dr Sharna Jamadar
The Optimise Study is a multiplatform study exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the community; this includes assessing the communities understanding...
Supervisor: Professor Margaret Hellard
Injecting drug use disproportionately contributes to the health and social burden of illicit drug use in Australia. Initiation and ongoing injecting...
Supervisor: Professor Paul Dietze
The prevalence of risk behaviours such as sharing of injecting equipment among people who inject drugs (PWID) has been well described in the...
Supervisor: Professor Paul Dietze
This study emerges from an interest in gaining a deeper understanding of the experience of healing. The research team seek to explore how ways of...
Supervisor: Dr Rochelle Hine
There is growing awareness of the limited benefits and potential harms of invasive procedures (e.g., epidural injections, fusion, discectomy, spinal...
Supervisor: Dr Michael Di Donato
Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) accounts for 20% of symptomatic epilepsy. Despite multiple studies have identified male sex as one of the risk factors...
Supervisor: Dr. Runxuan Lin
Do budesonide nasal douches increase intraocular pressure? Essentially this cohort would be captured and followed through the complex rhinology...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Debra Phyland
The relationship between sleep quality and surgical aptitude in neurosurgical trainees
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Are you interested in improving outcomes for a vulnerable population and have experience or interest in healthcare, public health, and the aged...
Supervisor: Dr Katrina Long
Our mothers programed the first decisions of our lives by mRNA dumping: the regulated translation of this maternal transcriptome controls the first...
Supervisor: Prof Traude Beilharz
The CLIP health economics program is evaluating the cryopreserved platelets for routine use. Platelet transfusions can be life-saving in trauma,...
Supervisor: Dr Lisa Higgins
Workers' compensation is a form of insurance to cover employees if they are injured at work or become sick due to their work. A key goal of...
Supervisor: Dr Shannon Gray
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that block checkpoint inhibitory receptors including Programmed Death (PD)-1 act directly on T cells to overcome ‘...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Meredith O'Keeffe
Recently, novel genetic variants of GPR75 were discovered to be associated with leanness in large genome wide associated studies. This is the first...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a major cause of pain and disability and accounts for approximately 90% of knee replacements. The prevalence of knee OA...
Supervisor: Dr Yuanyuan Wang