Research Projects
An estimated 1 in 4 Australians will experience a stroke in their lifetime. There is a high prevalence of risk factors for stroke in Australia, and a...
Supervisor: Prof Monique Kilkenny
We are recruiting families to a MRFF funded study. Following clinical assessment families will be offered the opportunity to enrol in a randomised...
Supervisor: Professor Katrina Williams
Blood contains a remarkable amount of information about what is happening throughout the body. Yet most current liquid-biopsy approaches focus on DNA...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
MS is a neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative disorder affecting over 33000 people in Australia and 2.8 million worldwide. MRI provides a crucial...
Supervisor: Dr. Nevin John
Hospital in the home (HITH) services allow patients to return to their home environment where they can continue receiving hospital-level care with...
Supervisor: A/Prof. Ben Rogers
Australia is one of the safest places in the world to give birth and yet not all women experience the
same excellent pregnancy outcomes. Currently...
Supervisor: Dr Miranda Davies-Tuck
Many strokes are preventable with the management of modifiable risk factors with lifestyle or pharmacological interventions. Overall, ten risk...
Supervisor: Prof Monique Kilkenny
Current fetal monitoring technologies, such as cardiotocography (CTG), are often inaccurate at detecting fetal distress. This results in either...
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most difficult cancers to treat. Most patients are diagnosed with advanced disease, responses to current...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
Globally, stroke is a leading cause of death and disability. Prevention of stroke involves the management of modifiable risk factors through...
Supervisor: Dr Lachlan Dalli
Kidney transplantation offers superior quality of life and longevity as compared to dialysis. However, whilst short term outcomes are typically...
Supervisor: Dr David Metz
Modern immunology increasingly depends on our ability to measure tiny amounts of biological material with exceptional sensitivity. In cancer and...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
Stroke is a major healthcare burden, but wide variation exists in the uptake of effective interventions. Efforts to improve the quality of stroke...
Supervisor: Prof Monique Kilkenny
Cancer immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of several cancers, but its success depends on identifying the right targets. T cells recognise...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in Australia and globally. In Australia, ~40,000 people suffer a stroke each year. Survivors often...
Supervisor: Dr Muideen Olaiya
Early life inflammation causes severe diseases in babies born preterm, including the chronic lung disease bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), the...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
Childhood brain cancers are among the most devastating paediatric malignancies. For several aggressive tumour types, including diffuse midline glioma...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
Diagnosis of patients with neurological disorders such as stroke and non-stroke, seizure or no seizure and multiple sclerosis can be difficult for...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) criteria are the international rules and recommendations applied in the classification of a genetic...
Supervisor: Dr Philip Harraka