Research Projects
Glioblastoma is a rare brain tumour, with an annual incidence of 6.8 per 100,000 people in Australia, with a 5-year survival rate of less than 5%....
Supervisor: Dr Neha Kaul
Perimenopause is the transition period in which women experience changes in reproductive hormones resulting in significant decrease in circulating...
Supervisor: Dr Kay Nguo
In several cancer types, a higher tumour mutational burden (TMB) has been associated with increased immune cell infiltration into tumours and better...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
Pharmacotherapy, when used with regard to substance dependence refers to the replacement of a person’s drug of choice with a legally prescribed and...
Supervisor: Dr Peter Higgs
The Living Evidence for Diabetes Consortium is a collaboration between the Australian Diabetes Society (ADS), Diabetes Australia (DA), the Australian...
Supervisor: Dr Tanya Millard
Food security is a social determinant of health. It exists when individuals have regular and reliable access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food...
Supervisor: Dr Sue Kleve
The discovery of giant viruses, comparable in size and complexity to simple cellular organisms has pushed back the frontier of the virus world....
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Fasseli Coulibaly
Around 70 million people worldwide have epilepsy and more than 30% of patients are drug-resistant. Drug resistance is currently an unmet need due to...
Supervisor: Dr. Shahid Javaid
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small, nanosized vesicles produced by most cells and readily found in bodily fluids which carry surface markers and...
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Tapmeier
Safe walking relies on effective visual attention, yet gaze behaviour is rarely integrated into clinical gait assessment—particularly in immersive AR...
Supervisor: Trung Dung Bui
The National Centre for Healthy Ageing is looking to create an Intergenerational Learning and Activity Playground. This playground is intended to...
Supervisor: Professor Terrence Haines
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression are characterised by distortions and deficits in autobiographical memory. While substantial...
Supervisor: Dr Laura Jobson
If you are interested in research on the features of, management of and prognosis of chronic disease, including impact of risk factors, please get in...
Supervisor: Professor Sophia Zoungas
Clinical practise around the management of nutrition for extremely preterm infants may vary across NICUs. This may include the use of probiotic...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
Extracellular vesicles are nanoparticles that contain bioactive cargo and provide crucial information about the donor cell's identity and...
Supervisor: Dr Shanti Gurung
Monochorionic twin pregnancies are at significantly higher risks of pregnancy complications when compared to dichorionic twin pregnancies or...
Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Lorber Rolnik
Society urgently needs new therapeutic strategies to tackle multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections. Current serious bacterial pathogens...
Supervisor: Dr Julien Tailhades
People affected by chronic conditions (for example, cancer, musculoskeletal conditions) experience high levels of personal financial burden, for...
Supervisor: Dr Danielle Berkovic
The cEEG and Stem Cell Laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience are investigating new treatments for a class of patients that do not respond to...
Supervisor: A/Prof Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD