Research Projects
Industry-Academia PhD Position
New tools for immunopeptidomics
An opportunity for an outstanding PhD candidate to undertake a collaborative...
Supervisor: Professor Anthony Purcell
An opportunity for an outstanding PhD candidate to undertake a collaborative project between Industry and Monash University.
The project: The use...
Supervisor: Professor Anthony Purcell
People may develop epilepsy at any time throughout their life, and there are many different causes of epilepsy. This study will identify whether...
Supervisor: Dr Emma Foster
Newborn/infant parasympathetic evaluation (NIPE) to evaluate intraoperative pain response in infants undergoing laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair...
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Background: We have demonstrated that the Newborn Infant Parasympathetic Evaluation (NIPE), based on heart rate variability (HRV) is able to...
Supervisor: Dr Maurizio Pacilli
Therapies that enhance the immune response to tumours have revolutionised the management of cancer. However, most tumours do not have a high...
Supervisor: Professor Tony Tiganis
Background: Mitochondria are energy-producing organelles. They form a network inside cells, and their health is critical to cell function....
Supervisor: Dr Georg Ramm
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes that play a vital role in the immune response through their ability to directly kill transformed and...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
The immune system is one of the most dynamic in our bodies. The mechanisms that maintain immune homeostasis must contend with the constant churn of...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
Chronic cough affects about 10% of the global population with significant socioeconomic burden. Currently available therapeutic agents are not...
Supervisor: Dr Aung Aung Kywe Moe
Metabolite based T cell immunity is emerging as a major player in antimicrobial immunity, autoimmunity, cancer, and metabolic diseases. Initially,...
Supervisor: Dr Wael Awad
Inflammatory pathways are a key contributor to diabetic vascular disease, including atherosclerosis. Underlying the development of vascular disease...
Supervisor: Dr Phillip Kantharidis
Direct clinical relevance: high. Hands-on learning opportunities: Various aspects of work with mice, workup of tissues for various downstream...
Supervisor: Prof Claudia Nold
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), predominantly Crohn’s Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), is a chronic inflammatory condition of unknown...
Supervisor: Dr Edward Giles
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal inherited neurodegenerative disorder, causing progressive brain degeneration, cognitive and motor impairment....
Supervisor: Professor Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is characterized by repetitive collapse (apnoea) or partial collapse (hypopnoea) of the pharyngeal airway during sleep...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Garun Hamilton
HIV infection has a substantial impact on immune cells, and whilst many of these effects are improved after starting anti-HIV therapy, they are often...
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps
Inflammation in the lung is critical for host defence against viruses. However, excessive inflammation and immunopathology are characteristic...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michelle Tate
Self-reactive T cells cause many autoimmune diseases, and can also trigger serious autoimmune side-effects in cancer patients undergoing...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ross Dickins
We manage the Australian Autoinflammatory Disease Registry (AADRY.org), and collaborate widely to identify genetic variants that may be the cause of...
Supervisor: Prof Seth Masters