Research Projects
People with multiple sclerosis (MS) are known to do less exercise and take more medications for disease and symptom management that are known to be...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Ayse Zengin
Gallbladder disease is a major and growing burden in Australia, generating >70,000 hospital admissions each year. Acute calculous cholecystitis (...
Supervisor: Dr Geraldine Ooi
Our vision, partnering with Jimple (https://jimple.io/), is to develop individually tailored intervention for post-stroke aphasia to improve each...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common—and potentially curable—cause of hypertension. It affects up to one in seven patients with high blood...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common, and potentially curable, cause of hypertension, affecting up to 1 in 7 people with high blood pressure...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jun Yang
Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is a serious, but common pregnancy complication, describing the infant that is born very small due to failure to...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Suzanne Miller
Every year, 13.4 million babies are born, and 900,000 will die, making it the leading cause of death in children <5 years of age globally. Half of...
Supervisor: Professor Graeme Polglase
This pre- and post-intervention CQI study will involve development of a multi-modal intervention to improve the management of ED patients with...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Our unit has a program of work being undertaken in a broad range of areas:
- delivering palliative care by telehealth and optimising models of care...
Supervisor: Adj Assoc Prof Peter Poon
Approximately 9000 newborns die in developing countries every day because of asphyxia – 30-50% die on their birthday. Approximately 13% of infants...
Supervisor: Professor Graeme Polglase
Specialist palliative care services to support the geriatrics settings of care is hypothesised to improve clinical outcomes for patients and their...
Supervisor: Adj Assoc Prof Peter Poon
Schizophrenia is a common yet poorly understood mental illness with a strong genetic link. While large studies have identified some common genetic...
Supervisor: Dr Sathish Periyasamy
Why does the innate immune system, our first line of defence against injury and infection, sometimes drive irreversible lung scarring instead of...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michelle Tate
Why does the immune system sometimes protect us from influenza, but other times drive the severe lung damage that makes the infection deadly? The...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michelle Tate
Low-dose aspirin effectively prevents placental-mediated pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia. However, its mechanism of action remains...
Supervisor: Daniel Rolnik
Many bacterial pathogens have acquired the capacity to replicate inside human cells by avoiding cell intrinsic innate immune pathways.Pathogens such...
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Hartland
Time to evacuation in spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage
Machine learning vs traditional prognostic models in intracerebral haemorrhage...
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Neurodevelopmental disorders exhibit significant sex differences, with males being more susceptible to autism spectrum disorder and ADHD, while...
Supervisor: Dr Joohyung Lee
The Healthy Brain Project is an ongoing study of middle-aged Australian adults (40-70 years) at risk of future dementia. This project will analyse...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara R Cardoso