Research Projects
Occupational voice users rely on vocal stability and endurance to meet job expectations yet vocal fatigue is a common occurrence. This can lead to...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Debra Phyland
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is due to bleeding in the brain and occurs in 15% of stroke. The Glasgow Coma Score is often used to monitor the...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Stroke is due to clot blocking a vessel in the brain. Recent clot retrieval trials have shown that this treatment is very effective and reduce...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Transcriptional regulators play a key role in activating oncogenic pathways that impinge on tumour growth, invasion and mestasasis. We study the role...
Supervisor: Dr Ron Firestein
Inflammatory Bowel Disease is an incurable disease that affects approximately 1 in 200 young Australians, with increasing incidence worldwide. Up to...
Supervisor: A/Prof Edward Giles
The transition to life after birth is one of the greatest physiological challenges that humans face. At birth, the airways are cleared of liquid, to...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Crossley
Direct clinical relevance: medium/low. Hands-on learning opportunities: Culture of primary human blood cells and cell lines, protein detection by...
Supervisor: Prof Claudia Nold
Women in preterm labour are often given corticosteroids to mature the fetal lungs before birth (antenatal corticosteroids).
After birth, very...
Supervisor: A/Prof. Megan Wallace
Cervical dilation is regularly assessed in labour using clinical vaginal examinations periodically. This is generally deemed safe, but can be...
Supervisor: Daniel Rolnik
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder that affects approximately 200,000 Australians, and strikes at a young age, crimpling people for life...
Supervisor: A/Prof Rachel Hill
The prevalence of metabolic diseases has increased dramatically over the last few decades. The presence of metabolic disorders predispose to...
Supervisor: Dr Geraldine Ooi
One of the most common questions parents of children with minimal spoken language ask is “will my child talk?”. Currently clinicians are not able to...
Supervisor: Dr Amanda Brignell
Sepsis is a global, life-threatening condition defined as multiple-organ damage or failure from uncontrolled immune responses against infection....
Supervisor: Professor Connie Wong
Our work is focussed on understanding the roles and functions of A-to-I RNA editing by the ADAR family of proteins. ADAR proteins can bind to RNA and...
Supervisor: Carl Walkley
Mutations in ADAR1 are one cause of Aicardi-Goutières’s Syndrome (AGS). AGS is a rare inherited disease that affects the brain and is a form of type...
Supervisor: Carl Walkley
Primary postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) remains a leading cause of maternal morbidity worldwide and affects women across all healthcare settings. Beyond...
Supervisor: Dr Ritesh Warty
Mercy Pregnancy Emotional Wellbeing Study is an ongoing pregnancy cohort study with 887 women and their children. This study is designed around...
Supervisor: Professor Megan Galbally
Post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and morbidity. This potentially life-threatening condition can be...
Supervisor: Prof Kirsten Palmer
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a condition characterised by repetitive collapse of the upper airway during sleep and affects both adults and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Gillian Nixon
Understanding the breadth of missed primary aldosteronism diagnosis in Australians with Hypertension
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common endocrine secondary cause of hypertension. Historically, it was believed to affect <1% of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jun Yang