Research Projects
Development and validation of an operating room orientation educational programme for Novices
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
The operating room theatre environment can be a potential confronting and difficult environment for novices including medical students and nursing...
Supervisor: Professor Ram Nataraja
Development and validation of an operating room orientation educational programme for Novices.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Development and validation of augmented reality headsets for remote operating assisting in a low resource setting.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Point-of-care (POC) testing is the testing at the site of patient care. It is done on patients conveniently and immediately allowing patients and...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Women of reproductive age are on an accelerated pathway to obesity development. Pregnancy is a recognised high-risk life stage that increases weight...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof. Cheryce Harrison
Our project aims to evaluate a new light-activated medical device, Lumi-Solve, for the safer and more effective treatment of vascular disease. Drug...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anthony Dear
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Antimicrobial resistance is a key global...
Supervisor: Ben Vezina
Snake envenomation has been identified as a neglected tropical disease responsible for a high morbidity and mortality rate, especially in Southeast...
Supervisor: Dr Syafiq Asnawi
It is estimated that half of the world’s population have Helicobacter pylori infection. This bacterium lives in the stomach where it causes...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
Protein kinase R (PKR) is a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-activated serine/threonine kinase integral to the cellular stress response. Upon binding to...
Supervisor: Dr Sophia Davidson
More than 200 children are diagnosed with high-risk cancer in Australia each year. Over 140 of these children still lose their life due to the...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
The study aims to understand how preterm babies develop the ability to recognise and understand faces. Exposure to faces and facial expressions are...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Flora Wong
We introduced a novel concept of the functional role of CRP as a ‘pro-inflammatory agent'. This concept is based on our findings that pentameric...
Supervisor: Professor Karlheinz Peter
the development of clinically relevant cancer models that recapitulate human cancer is key to both understanding biological mechanisms of cancer...
Supervisor: Dr Ron Firestein
Heart failure (HF) is the commonest cardiovascular cause for hospital admission in people aged >65years. It has become increasingly evident that...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Bing Wang
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive primary brain cancer, and with current conventional treatment the average life expectancy is only 12-18 months....
Supervisor: Dr Mastura Monif
Women with a history of gestational diabetes are at 10 times increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes and twice as likely to develop...
Supervisor: Dr Siew Lim
Many patients with epilepsy suffer from debilitating mood disorders, including depression. These psychiatric conditions are the major determinants of...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones
Activated platelets have been shown to play an important role in cancer, inflammation and thrombotic diseases.
This project would focus on...
Supervisor: Professor Karlheinz Peter