Research Projects
Contraceptives are used by millions of women worldwide and are critical to prevent unwanted pregnancies and reduce maternal and infant morbidity and...
Supervisor: Dr Lindi Masson
Over 30,000 people in Australia have contracted COVID-19 (as of mid 2021). Outbreaks are continuing to emerge in Australia despite the national...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Griffiths
Contrast-induced Neurotoxicity Following Intracranial Endovascular Procedures
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Objective:
To compare and contrast the mechanisms of cortical inhibition and facilitation in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (...
Supervisor: Professor Shapour Jaberzadeh
The mammalian oocyte is the largest cell in the body and undergoes two highly specialised asymmetric meiotic cell divisions. Coordination of...
Supervisor: Professor John Carroll
Overweight and obesity and their related conditions are crucial public health problems affecting 25% of children and 67% of adults. The perinatal...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Lisa Moran
"The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has brought unprecedented disruption to the lives of populations across the globe, including in Australia....
Supervisor: A/Prof Megan Lim
Approximately 20%-25% of PDAC patients have either resectable or borderline resectable disease. Standard of care for resectable stage disease is...
Supervisor: Dr Lin Li
Over the past 10 years, WHO has issued over 400 recommendations on interventions to improve maternal and perinatal healthcare. In developing these...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel
The aim of this multidisciplinary project is to design techniques and build low-cost, efficient automated solutions for behavioural study in rodents...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi
The recent Senate inquiry into universal access to reproductive health recommended that that the Australian Government reviews, considers and...
Supervisor: Professor Danielle Mazza
The recent Senate inquiry into universal access to reproductive health recommended that that the Australian Government reviews, considers and...
Supervisor: Professor Danielle Mazza
This project will involve costing analysis to estimate the resource use associated with the Mental Health in Primary Schools pilot program. It will...
Supervisor: Dr Jemimah Ride
A hallmark characteristic in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the misfolding, aggregation...
Supervisor: Dr Nadinath Nillegoda
The novel coronavirus first identified in December 2019, and has since been identified as SARS-CoV-2, has spread rapidly around the globe. The World...
Supervisor: Professor Caroline Homer
COVID-19 has brought an unprecedented crisis to public health globally and is still impacting millions of people from over 200 countries. Despite its...
Supervisor: Dr Quan Huynh
Improving public cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) rates is vital to improving outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. CPR education is often...
Supervisor: Professor Janet Bray
Neuroscience is becoming an exciting and multidisciplinary field, with a combination of biology, psychology, engineering, and large-data processing....
Supervisor: Dr Tatsuo Sato
Our laboratory has recently discovered that select Toll like receptor agonists could be modified to present novel adjuvant properties - with broad...
Supervisor: A/Prof Michael Gantier
Trauma confers risk for virtually all forms of psychopathology. The relationship between trauma, stress, resilience and psychopathology remains...
Supervisor: Professor Jayashri Kulkarni