Research Projects
The anterior choroidal artery is a branch of the internal carotid artery and to a lesser extent the middle cerebral artery. It supplies the area from...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Disorders of Consciousness refer to patients with minimal conscious state and unresponsive wakefulness syndrome. This disorder has been observed...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Granulosa cell tumours are rare ovarian cancers for which reliable biomarkers are important for diagnosis, monitoring, and detection of recurrence....
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu
Title of project: Measuring the value of spleen preserving procedures
Short description: The spleen is an important part of the immune system,...
Supervisor: Prof Ian Woolley
Diseases such as SLE (lupus) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are treated by glucocorticoids (steroids), because these drugs are highly effective....
Supervisor: Professor Eric Morand
The gastrointestinal bacterial pathogens enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) and Shigella translocate virulence proteins, termed "effector proteins...
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Hartland
We have identified novel molecules expressed during the early events of ovarian cancer invasion to healthy tissue. We hypothesize that these...
Supervisor: Dr Maree Bilandzic
Stroke is a global leading cause of death and disability. Despite this, there is currently no
treatment to limit inflammatory events which has been...
Supervisor: Dr Joshua Bourne
Accurate prediction of neurologic outcome after hypoxic coma is important. We have previously published on the utility of pupillary responses,...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Macrophages are innate immune cells that detect environmental, pathogen or host cellular danger molecules, and initiate appropriate immune responses...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Kate Lawlor
Mitochondria are critical to cellular function, producing cellular bioenergy, but they also have important roles in ion homeostasis, programmed cell...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
The aim of this project is to assess the need for mobile imaging. The PhD project will focus on x-rays and ultrasound. The study will perform a data-...
Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Uribe
Background: Leukaemia accounts for ~30% of all childhood cancers and ~20% of childhood cancer deaths, representing the most common pediatric cancer...
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael
This research project aims to generate patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived brain cells to model the effects of Type I...
Supervisor: Dr. Natalia G. Sampaio
The innate immune system is capable of intricately detailed detection, differentiation and elimination of pathogenic bacteria. However, the vast...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sam Forster
Interleukin (IL)-37 was discovered in silico in 2000, but received very little attention (not even 10 publications) in general and nothing at all was...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
Monash Live-Biobanking & Precision Cancer Immunotherapy (MoLBi-PCI): From Bench to Precision Therapies
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
This project involves the translation of findings from mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) to human patients, both with IBD and healthy...
Supervisor: A/Prof Edward Giles
The Clinical Psychedelic Lab at Monash University is Australia's first psychedelic lab, and is pioneering a rigorous program of research and...
Supervisor: Paul Liknaitzky, PhD