Research Projects
Are you driven by the challenge of pushing the boundaries in statistical modeling and healthcare research? We invite you to join our innovative PhD...
Supervisor: Professor Arul Earnest
The neural pathways that mediate appetite control many other functions, including mood, motivation, memory, attention and arousal, suppression of...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Lockie
Urinary tract infections are a common cause of bacterial infection, especially in females. These infections are often chronic or recurrent and can...
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Starkey
Binocular rivalry refers to the perceptual alternation that occurs every few seconds when conflicting visual stimuli are presented, one to each eye....
Supervisor: Dr Steven Miller
Peptides are vital for modern medicine, with complex exemplars found to exhibit important properties including acting as antibiotics, as hormones to...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Max Cryle
Clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), is observed as genetically distinct subpopulations of blood cells that have acquired somatic...
Supervisor: Robert O'Reilly
Single-cell analyses are at the leading edge of technological development for cell biology. And, transcriptomics analyses at single-cell resolution...
Supervisor: Prof Traude Beilharz
Background: Cell-based therapeutics have made advances in recent years. One of the most clinically studied products in regenerative medicine is...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tracy Heng
For cells to function and therefore life to exist, proteins have to be processed and their constituents recycled or destroyed. The Proteasome is the...
Supervisor: A/Prof Vivek Naranbhai
A biomarker is an objectively measured characteristic of a normal or pathologic biological process. The development of novel interventions to treat,...
Supervisor: A/Prof Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has a mortality rate 12 times higher than the annual death rate from all causes in females aged 15 to 24. Currently, there is...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Oldfield
We propose pioneering studies to prevent the consequences of infection-related exacerbations of
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that...
Supervisor: Professor Philip Bardin
Bone responds to loads, where increased loads leads to denser bones. Hence certain exercises are very important and have a positive effect on bones....
Supervisor: Dr Ayse Zengin
Natural History and Haemorrhage Risk of Brain Cavernous Malformations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Surgical Versus Conservative Management of Brainstem Cavernomas: A Comparative Outcome Study
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Surgery is the most effective treatment for stopping seizures in epilpesy. But which patients will benefit from surgery, and how to best perform the...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Sinclair
The glymphatic system, which clears waste from the brain and is most active during sleep, plays a crucial role in maintaining brain health.
This...
Supervisor: Dr Akram Zamani
Obesity is an enormous health concern, both in Australia and worldwide. Our laboratory recently published a function for the ETS-5 transcription...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Pocock
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death worldwide, disproportionately affecting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds....
Supervisor: Dr Lachlan Dalli