Research Projects
Studies suggest that combining psychedelic-assisted therapy and meditation practices can enhance the beneficial effects of both interventions. This...
Supervisor: Paul Liknaitzky, PhD
Most psychedelic patients and therapists hold the view that a clinician’s competence to work with psychedelics is partly dependent on their own...
Supervisor: Paul Liknaitzky, PhD
Building on ongoing work in our lab investigating psychedelic-catalysed insight (PCI), this PhD project will focus on identifying the contextual and...
Supervisor: Paul Liknaitzky, PhD
We plan to conduct a series of clinical studies on a variety of areas pertaining to Atrial Fibrillation and stroke:
1. Investigating anticoagulation...
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Teh
Genetic variants have been found to cause epilepsy as well as affect how people respond to treatment. Whole exome sequencing is a new method of...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Rotator cuff tendinopathy is common and burdensome: Shoulder pain affects 15-27% of adults (affecting 1.8 million Australians) and is the third most...
Supervisor: Peter Nicklen
Cytokines have attracted substantial attention as diagnostic biomarkers for infectious and inflammatory diseases in recent years. However,...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
Often referred to as re-randomisation designs, randomised trials that allow participants to be included in a randomised clinical trial multiple times...
Supervisor: Professor Jessica Kasza
It is now well appreciated that adipocytes are not simply fat storage cells, but can be subdivided into white, brown and ‘beige’ cells, with the...
Supervisor: Professor Tony Tiganis
With collaborators from the UK, Canada and Sweden, we will address the structural drivers of mental illness stigma, as experienced by young rural...
Supervisor: Dr Rochelle Hine
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), there were over 7.6 million migrants living in Australia in 2020. Culturally and...
Supervisor: Revathi N. Krishna
Background: Screening rates for common women's health conditions remain significantly low among individuals with severe mental health illness, a...
Supervisor: Dr Joanne Enticott
We have discovered that the initiation of a TCR signal in Treg cells entails docking of the Treg TCR in the opposite orientation to that observed for...
Supervisor: Dr Hugh Reid
This landmark study is now complete, but analyses continue. Stroke survivors and healthy controls had MRI scans and cognitive assessment within a few...
Supervisor: Prof Amy Brodtmann
Degenerative cerebellar ataxias are complex and heterogeneous diseases defined by a range of debilitating motor and non-motor symptoms. These include...
Supervisor: Dr Louisa Selvadurai
The menopause transition is a time of significant hormonal changes. Mood changes, including anxiety and depression are frequently reported during...
Supervisor: Professor Jayashri Kulkarni
The CREATE project (Collaborative Registrar Education and Training Enhancement) is an innovative collaboration between The Royal Australian College...
Supervisor: Elsa D. Ibanez Prada
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most significant and immediate threats to health in Australia and globally. We are working on harnessing...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic
The current opioid epidemic is one of the most severe public health crisis globally, and this is expected to get worse during the post-pandemic era....
Supervisor: Dr Satoshi Ogawa
Monash Partners fully supports the involvement of healthcare consumers and the community in research, healthcare improvement and innovation. Our...
Supervisor: Professor Helena Teede