Research Projects
This is a sub study within a larger NHMRC funded data linkage project. The aim of the sub study will be to utilise population data to understand the...
Supervisor: Professor Nadine Andrew
The Department of Diabetes at the School of Translational Medicine (STM) is a part of Monash University’s Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health...
Supervisor: Professor Melinda Coughlan
The discovery of innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) has forced immunologists to rethink how the immune system provides tissue protection. Our pioneering...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Cyril Seillet
Schwann cells and melanocytes, both derived from neural crest cells, play essential yet understudied roles in skin physiology and pathology. Schwann...
Supervisor: Celine Pattaroni
Declining cognitive function is common in multiple sclerosis (MS) and routine cognitive testing is critically needed in MS care. However,...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Merlo
This project is at the intersection of neuroscience, data science and artificial intelligence.
Coordinated brain activity underpins all cognitive...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones
Compensatory cognitive strategy training offers much promise to help women with cognitive difficulties, either brain fog during menopause, cognitive...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Caroline Gurvich
Shigella and enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) are important human pathogens that cause severe diarrhoea and dysentery. Despite the fact that they are...
Supervisor: Dr Jane Hawkey
This study will use an existing linked data set covering an entire geographic region, to understand the use of community based aged care services by...
Supervisor: Professor Nadine Andrew
Regular physical activity is important for maintaining physical function and quality of life in people with chronic respiratory disease. In people...
Supervisor: Dr Narelle Cox
Plasma cells produce antibodies making them important for protection from infectious diseases. However, sometimes antibody responses go awry and...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
Natural Killer (NK) cells are innate immune cells which play an important role in eliminating malignant and virally-infected cells but emerging...
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps
The development of reliable, accurate, non-invasive methodologies for continuous, long-term seizure monitoring is a critical part of the precision...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Clinical trial frameworks and funders agree on the importance of engaging with consumers and the community within the health and medical research...
Supervisor: Professor Natasha Lannin