Research Projects
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
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
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
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that affects up to 1 in 7 menstruating people. There is no cure. Current treatments are limited....
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Cousins
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
Cancer immunotherapy has revolutionised the treatment of several malignancies, yet many current strategies rely on highly personalised approaches...
Supervisor: Dr Tima Shamekhi
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