Research Projects
Monochorionic twin pregnancies are at significantly higher risks of pregnancy complications when compared to dichorionic twin pregnancies or...
Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Lorber Rolnik
This project aims to investigate how dietary patterns influence gut physiology and, in turn, shape cardiovascular health. Emerging evidence suggests...
Supervisor: Dr Aimee Dordevic
This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary research team that is changing the face of autoimmune disease management, making ground-...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Jones
Direct clinical relevance: medium. Hands-on learning opportunities: Various aspects of work with mice and patient samples, workup of tissues for...
Supervisor: Prof Claudia Nold
Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and the third leading cause of cancer-related death, with a five year overall survival of 33...
Supervisor: Dr Geraldine Ooi
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Medical imaging technologies are advancing rapidly, especially with the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based techniques. AI has...
Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Uribe
Background: Acute Erythroleukemia (AEL) is an aggressive and poor outcome subtype of AML that is largely resistant to standard treatments. Unlike...
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael
Juvenile granulosa cell tumours (jGCT) are rare ovarian tumours that occur predominantly in children and young women and are biologically distinct...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu
Invasive lobular breast cancer is a specific histological type of breast cancer that makes up about 10% of all invasive breast cancer diagnoses. It...
Supervisor: Professor Melissa Southey
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with its burden disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)....
Supervisor: Dr Lachlan Dalli
The β-haemoglobin disorders such as β thalassaemia, haemoglobin E (HbE), and sickle cell disease (SCD) are among the most prevalent inherited...
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
To create a model for a HPEDs that will lead the way in the reduction of chronic disease in Victoria through the use of new digital technologies,...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The problem: Picture this… Cheng is an 83-year-old woman living with dementia in a residential aged care facility (RACF), she has frequent falls....
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The currently identified genetic prostate cancer risk factors account for less than 40% of the familial risk for the disease. Very few of these...
Supervisor: Professor Melissa Southey
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 ankle is a clinically important weight-bearing joint, and damage at this site is relevant to osteoarthritis, post-traumatic joint disease, and...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Ayse Zengin
In collaboration with a Maternal-Fetal Medicine colleague from the United States who has been working on the role of Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA)...
Supervisor: Daniel Rolnik
Contemporary treatment of multiple myeloma and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) still relies heavily on steroids (glucocorticoids - like...
Supervisor: Professor Jake Shortt
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