Research Projects
The Functional Annotation of Tumor Variants of Unknown Significance (VUS) using CRISPR project aims to elucidate the functional significance of...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Sun
Gastric cancer (GC) is the fourth most common cancer globally. It has defined premalignant stages and progresses through Intestinal Metaplasia (IM)...
Supervisor: Professor Alex Boussioutas
Diversity is one of the most highly evaluated value in our workplace to maximize its performance. Diversity in neural cells (neurons) may be...
Supervisor: Dr Tatsuo Sato
Optimal clinical outcomes in emergency care are driven by rapid application of evidence informed clinical pathways. This is paramount in cardiac and...
Supervisor: Professor Karen Smith
In recent years, the landscape of education has been profoundly influenced by technological advancements and innovative teaching methodologies. One...
Supervisor: Dr Md Nazmul Karim
Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and the third leading cause of cancer-related death, with a five year overall survival of 33...
Supervisor: Dr Geraldine Ooi
Climate change exacerbates the frequency and intensity of disasters (e.g., bushfires, floods, heatwaves), disproportionately affecting migrant and...
Supervisor: Revathi N. Krishna
Generating mouse models of clonal hematopoiesis to study the potential of apsirin to prevent cancers
Clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), defined as the presence of blood cancer-associated mutations with a variant allele frequency...
Supervisor: Professor David Curtis
Anti-mullerian Hormone (AMH) or Mullerian Inhibiting Substance (MIS) is fundamentally known for its crucial activities in gonadal development during...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Walton
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Medical imaging technologies are advancing rapidly, especially with the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based techniques. AI has...
Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Uribe
The Lieschke group studies the haemopoietic system and leukocytes. The haemopoietic system is a collection of organs
and tissues (bone marrow,...
Supervisor: Professor Graham Lieschke AM
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major cause of antibiotic resistant hospital-associated infections that can be extremely difficult to treat. The World...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Wyres
Acquired epilepsy is the most common form of drug resistant acquired epilepsy in adults, where seizures continue to occur despite antiepileptic drug...
Supervisor: Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
The treatment of bacterial infections in humans and animals has largely relied on the use of antibiotics for over 70 years. One consequence of the...
Supervisor: Professor Dena Lyras
The control of stem cell division and differentiation is crucial to ensure correct development of an embryo and to maintain tissue homeostasis during...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Pocock
Background: Acute Erythroleukemia (AEL) is an aggressive and poor outcome subtype of AML that is largely resistant to standard treatments. Unlike...
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael
Genetic variants (DNA changes) can result in increased risk of diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease and dementia. However, some DNA changes...
Supervisor: Professor Paul Lacaze
This project ewill fucntionally analyse novel genes found to be expressed in embryonic chicken gonads.
Methods include standard and cutting edge...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Craig Smith
Invasive lobular breast cancer is a specific histological type of breast cancer that makes up about 10% of all invasive breast cancer diagnoses. It...
Supervisor: Professor Melissa Southey
Antibody development in response to infection and vaccination in humans is poorly understood, in part due to the difficult in accessing secondary...
Supervisor: A/Prof Michelle Boyle