Research Projects
Known genetic risk factors for prostate cancer include rare genetic variants in prostate cancer predisposition genes that are associated with high to...
Supervisor: Professor Melissa Southey
For over 100 years the need to understand particular disease causing, bacterial isolates to treat disease has been clearly understood. Importantly,...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sam Forster
The current clinical standard-of-care method for monitoring a patient's body temperature is to
periodically take a measurement using a variety...
Supervisor: Dr Maurizio Pacilli
Home continuous wireless temperature monitoring using TempTraq® patch in children discharged after surgery for perforated appendicitis: A prospective...
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Male and female brains differ in anatomy and chemistry The prevailing dogma that oestrogen is the key factor involved in brain sex differentiation...
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Maternity care in Victoria is provided under a number of models of care. Model of care has recently been added to the data provided on all births in...
Supervisor: Dr Mary-Ann Davey
Mitochondria are critical to cellular function, producing cellular bioenergy, but they also have important roles in ion homeostasis, programmed cell...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
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
Despite advancement in treatment, cancer remains a leading public health burden worldwide. Our understanding of genetic alterations in cancer has...
Supervisor: Dr Terry Lim
Whilst dichotomous thresholds are currently used to diagnose primary aldosteronism (PA), emerging data support the concept of a continuum of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jun Yang
Clozapine is one of the multi-target drugs that remains the only approved treatment for treatment-resistant schizophrenia. The multi-target nature of...
Supervisor: Dr Sathish Periyasamy
Despite significant progress in prevention and treatment, stroke remains a leading cause of death and disability globally. Particularly, the number...
Supervisor: Dr Muideen Olaiya
Identifying inmmuno peptide targets for development of novel T cell therapies in brain tumours
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Paediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGG) represent some of the most deadly brain cancers in children, differing significantly from adult gliomas in...
Supervisor: Dr Yichen Zhou
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
Differences of sex development include sex chromosome aneuploidies such as Turner syndrom (TS) and Klinefelter syndrome (KS). Women with TS lack one...
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Intersex conditions are congenital conditions where gonadal or anatomical sex is atypical. Intersex conditions encompass a wide range of...
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Project Overview:
In the ever-evolving landscape of medical research, the pursuit of innovative solutions to combat cancer and autoimmune diseases...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
The deep learning revolution has generated much interest in its use in medicine. Deep learning belongs to a family of machine learning tools and...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Bone responds to loads, where increased loads leads to denser bones. Hence certain exercises are very important and have a positive effect on bones....
Supervisor: Dr Ayse Zengin