Research Projects
Opportunities exist to be involved in this exciting project on innovative digital monitoring devices for neonates. The project will involve...
Supervisor: A/Prof Atul Malhotra
The Switch/Sucrose Non-Fermentable (SWI/SNF) DNA remodelling complexes regulate gene expression and aberrant SWI/SNF function is associated with...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jason Cain
The pediatric bladder can be influenced by various poorly understood factors, despite ongoing efforts by international organizations, such as the...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kiarash Taghavi
This project involves a systematic scoping review of literature related to the involvement of families in research co-design following the death of a...
Supervisor: Sid Vemuri
Clinical practise around the management of nutrition for extremely preterm infants may vary across NICUs. This may include the use of probiotic...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
Sarcomas are a rare type of cancer that originate in the connective tissue of the body, including fat, muscle, bone, and cartilage. Sarcoma’s can...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jason Cain
Paediatric surgeons manage a spectrum of conditions, from the neonatal period up to 16-18 years of age; however much of the scientific evidence for...
Supervisor: Dr Maurizio Pacilli
Every year, 13.4 million babies are born, and 900,000 will die, making it the leading cause of death in children <5 years of age globally. Half of...
Supervisor: Professor Graeme Polglase
In Australia about 26,873 infants are born preterm each year. Despite an increase in survival, developmental morbidity has not improved, with more...
Supervisor: Professor Rosemary Horne
Background:
Antenatal hydronephrosis (ANH) occurs in approximately 1% of pregnancies. While many affected infants undergo monitoring and are...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kiarash Taghavi
Interleukin (IL)-37 was discovered in silico in 2000, but received very little attention (not even 10 publications) in general and nothing at all was...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
Neonatal brain network dynamics in the preterm period: A mathematical-clinical neuroscience approach
Little is known about how the neuronal circuits and neuronal population dynamics in the brain of preterm-born infants can be adequately characterised...
Supervisor: Dr Steve Mehrkanoon
We are looking for an HONS student to join our multidisciplinary team that uses video review of neonatal resuscitations (Neonatal Resuscitation Video...
Supervisor: Dr Douglas Blank
Direct clinical relevance: high. Hands-on learning opportunities: Various aspects of work with mice and or human specimens, workup of tissues for...
Supervisor: Prof Claudia Nold
The literature providing evidence of the high prevalence and significant impacts of snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in children is recent...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Gillian Nixon
This project aims to assess outcomes in a statewide screening cohort by examining conditions genetically linked to intellectual disability. It seeks...
Supervisor: Dr. Mohammed Alshawsh
The Paediatric Emergency Department at Monash Medical Centre is involved in a large number of clinical research projects, ranging from single-centre...
Supervisor: Simon Craig
Paediatric gastroenterology encompasses any serious condition of the gastrointestinal tract, liver and pancreas. Many of the conditions within our...
Supervisor: A/Prof Edward Giles
Global Surgery has changed in focus since the publication of the Lancet Commission. There is an increased focus on the upskilling and increased...
Supervisor: Professor Ram Nataraja
There is emerging evidence from overseas quality network that disparities in health outcomes is influenced by social determinanta of health. For...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan