Research Projects
Heart failure is the commonest cardiovascular cause for hospital admission in people aged >65years. It has become increasingly evident that HF...
Supervisor: Professor David Kaye
There is robust evidence that male involvement improves maternal and newborn health outcomes, particularly in low- and middle-income country settings...
Supervisor: Ms Elizabeth Comrie-Thomson
Paracetamol is the most commonly ingested medication in overdose. Large ingestions may require more treatment. The successful candidate will...
Supervisor: Professor Anselm Wong
In Australia and around the world, demand for ambulance services is growing annually. Understanding the drivers of increasing demand is useful in...
Supervisor: Professor Karen Smith
The most aggressive forms of prostate cancer demonstrate resistance to multiple types of cancer drugs. We have performed RNA-sequencing on a large...
Supervisor: Dr David Goode
Nfatc1 is known to be important in regulating how the heart forms in the embryo. Which parts of the genome determine the expression of nfatc1 in the...
Supervisor: Dr. Renee Chow
Current therapies for epilepsy are symptomatic, only suppressing the symptoms (seizures), but do not impact the development or progression of disease...
Supervisor: Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
The Stem Cell Laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience is investigating new treatments for a class of patients that do not respond to mainstream...
Supervisor: Dr. Shahid Javaid
Chronic infectious diseases have a devastating effect on global health. HIV and Plasmodium falciparum both cause chronic disease and have evaded...
Supervisor: Professor Kim Good-Jacobson
Between 2020 and 2023, it is expected that over 130 million electric bikes to be sold worldwide. Growth in urban bicycle use can lead to profound...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Beck
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a chronic mental health disorder affecting approximately 1% of the Australian population. Individuals with...
Supervisor: Dr. Eveline Mu
This project will conduct several economic evaluations of e-health interventions for prevention and treatment of mental disorders. The student will...
Supervisor: Long Le
Work and workplaces play important roles in population mental health but are underutilised as a platform to improve mental health. A key issue for...
Supervisor: Dr Jemimah Ride
Long COVID is a multisystemic condition comprising symptoms that follow an acute infection. The
School of Primary and Allied Health Care (SPAHC)...
Supervisor: Professor Terrence Haines
An audit of analgesia provision in the ED undertaken in 2019 found that time to initial analgesia delivery and monitoring of effect did not meet...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The megafires of the summer of 2019-20 are a foretaste of the future. Landscape fires will become more common and severe with climate change in...
Supervisor: Professor Michael Abramson
Nearly one in three Australian's lives with a chronic lung disease. People with chronic lung disease experience burdensome symptoms, including...
Supervisor: Dr Narelle Cox
One in three women around the world are estimated to have experienced intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence, two of the most...
Supervisor: Revathi N. Krishna
Infertility is defined as a couple's inability to achieve a successful pregnancy within 12 months of unprotected sexual intercourse. Infertility...
Supervisor: Dr Faizul Jaafar
Circadian clocks generate daily rhythms to enhance the fitness of virtually all living organisms. Disruption of these rhythms has been implicated in...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Andrew Ellisdon