Research Projects
Heart attacks are a leading cause of death in Australia, claiming on average 21 lives every day. The most common cause of a heart attack is coronary...
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Lin
A prospective multi centre trial on the relationship between post operative activity and outcome in patients undergoing lumbar microdiscectomy
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
There has been an explosion in research and innovation of neurotechnologies (e.g. deep brain stimulation, cortical implants and brain computer...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Adrian Carter
The prevalence of diabetes and its complications is increasing resulting in substantial health and economic burden worldwide. Self-management and...
Supervisor: Dr Negar Naderpoor
An estimated 1 in 4 Australians will experience a stroke in their lifetime. There is a high prevalence of risk factors for stroke in Australia, and a...
Supervisor: A/Prof Monique Kilkenny
Helicobacter pylori persistently colonize the epithelium of the stomach in roughly half of the world’s population. It is a causative agent of...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
Immunoglobulin (Ig) has potential benefits across many clinical indications but is costly – Ig use in Australia, excluding administrative costs,...
Supervisor: Dr Adam Irving
Cancer therapy and oncology has entered a new exciting era of targeted therapy and personalised patient treatment, but resistance and tumour...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
We are recruiting families to a MRFF funded study. Following clinical assessment families will be offered the opportunity to enrol in a randomised...
Supervisor: Professor Katrina Williams
Uncertainty tolerance is a psychological construct describing how individuals manage and respond to uncertainty. Given the pervasiveness of...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Lazarus
The lack of comprehensive sexuality education in schools and the stigma around adolescents' sexual activity prevents adolescents from accessing...
Supervisor: Dr Anisa Assifi
People in rural areas have lower access to cancer clinical trials. What factors impact on access and what strategies can be used to access these...
Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
Gliomas are the most common type of intrinsic brain tumour and a major cause of morbidity and mortality for those afflicted by these highly invasive...
Supervisor: Dr Mastura Monif
The student will undertake one of the following projects. The choice of project will depend on student preference and resource availability (time and...
Supervisor: Dr Tim Coulson
Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is caused by accumulated oncogenic mutations in white blood cell progenitors that lock them into an immature self-...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ross Dickins
Hospital in the home (HITH) services allow patients to return to their home environment where they can continue receiving hospital-level care with...
Supervisor: A/Prof. Ben Rogers
Australia is one of the safest places in the world to give birth and yet not all women experience the
same excellent pregnancy outcomes. Currently...
Supervisor: Dr Miranda Davies-Tuck
Autoimmune kidney diseases, particularly lupus nephritis and ANCA associated vasculitis are associated with low expression of DNase I a critical...
Supervisor: Dr Kim O'Sullivan
Many strokes are preventable with the management of modifiable risk factors with lifestyle or pharmacological interventions. Overall, ten risk...
Supervisor: A/Prof Monique Kilkenny
The burgeoning pandemic of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacterial pathogens poses a major threat to global health. In Australia alone, 6.5 deaths...
Supervisor: Dr Jane Hawkey