Research Projects
Community pharmacist have the potential to provide accessible health services to adolescents and the potential to improve adolescent’s access to...
Supervisor: Dr Anisa Assifi
Based at the Central Clinical School, our laboratory works closely with clinicians at the Alfred Hospital to study mechanisms of cancer development...
Supervisor: Dr Gamze Kuser Abali
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common mental illness characterised by recurrent distressing mental obsessions and behavioural compulsions....
Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Segrave
Young Australians frequently engage in risky single occasion drinking. This drinking pattern is associated with a variety of harms including...
Supervisor: A/Prof Megan Lim
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a leading cause of injury and chronic disease and mortality in Australia, and the leading cause of disability or death...
Supervisor: Dr Rowan Ogeil
HIV maturation is a highly regulated process, and viral protease has to cleave precursor of the main structural protein Gag in a sequential manner....
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Alex De Marco
Cellular aging is a complex biological process involving a gradual decline in cellular function and increased vulnerability to disease. It is...
Supervisor: Dr Iman Azimi
Non-ribosomal peptide synthesis is a complex biosynthetic process that produces many medically important peptide natural products, including several...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Max Cryle
Paediatric chronic pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as persistent or recurring pain that lasts for longer than...
Supervisor: Professor Richelle Mychasiuk
We are developing a cohort of children who have lost skills and developed autism, sometimes called autistic regression. Using video footage prior to...
Supervisor: Professor Katrina Williams
Plasmalogens are a unique class of lipids that are abundant in certain tissues such as the heart, brain and specific immune cell types. Studies have...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
FIKK kinases are unique among apicomplexan parasites. Interestingly the genome of P. falciparum encodes 20 FIKK kinases, but very little is known...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
Striated muscles including skeletal and cardiac muscle makes up a major proportion of our body mass. Because of their high metabolic activity,...
Supervisor: A/Prof Brian Drew
Clostridium difficile is recognised as the major cause of nosocomial diarrhoea in Australian hospitals and in hospitals worldwide. Chronic colitis...
Supervisor: Professor Dena Lyras
Historically, it is well documented that infections during pregnancy increase the risk for atypical neurodevelopment in offspring such as...
Supervisor: A/Prof Rachel Hill
This partnership project with industry seeks to develop a body of work to understand the impact of footwear on young children's feet, movement...
Supervisor: Professor Cylie Williams
In Australia, waterborne communicable diseases (CD) is a recognised health concern for individuals living in remote and indigenous communities, where...
Supervisor: Dr Rebekah Henry
This is a sub study within a larger NHMRC funded data linkage project. The aim of the sub study will be to utilise population data to understand the...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Nadine Andrew
The Department of Diabetes at the School of Translational Medicine (STM) is a part of Monash University’s Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Melinda Coughlan
Kidney stones are a common urinary tract problem. They can cause obstructions in the urinary system and are a significant risk factor for the...
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Starkey