Research Projects
Gastric cancer kills ~1 million people worldwide each year and has an average 5-year survival rate of 19%. It is, therefore, a cancer of unmet need....
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan
Pasteurella multocida is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen that causes a number of different diseases in cattle,
pigs and poultry, resulting in...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce
Brain tumours are highly immunosuppressed, which has meant that they are uniquely resistant to immunotherapies. Importantly, T cell infiltration into...
Supervisor: Leon Smyth
The mRNA therapeutics have emerged as a high potent new class of drug, revolutionizing disease treatments, such as therapeutic vaccines, monoclonal...
Supervisor: Nanoantibiotics - SHEN LAB
Antibiotic-resistance is a major problem in hospitals and different community settings. Dendritic cells are sentinel cells of the innate immune...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Meredith O'Keeffe
Anorexia nervosa (AN) has clear biological underpinnings, however, the molecular mechanisms that lead to the development of this debilitating...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Foldi
Join the Monash Proteomics and Metabolomics Platform (MPMP) metabolomics team for an exciting summer project to improve retention time (RT)...
Supervisor: Dr. Katy Jeppe
This project develops a visual stimulation system for mice for neuroscience experiments. The project develops a custom experimental system composed...
Supervisor: Daisuke Shimaoka, Group Leader
This project aims to design, synthesize and evaluate a novel class of oligonucleotides. Oligonucleotides have emerged as a revolutionary tool in...
Supervisor: Dr Nitin Patil
Non-ribosomal peptide synthesis is a complex biosynthetic process that produces many medically important peptide natural products, including several...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Max Cryle
Fibrosis is defined as the hardening and/or scarring of various organs including the heart and kidney, which usually results from abnormal wound...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Chrishan Samuel
Current clinical management of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), a common sleep disorder in both children and adults, uses constant positive airway...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Brad Edwards
We have recently discovered a very potent antibody targeting the chemokine receptor CXCR3, a promising target for the treatment of inflammatory and...
Supervisor: Dr Remy Robert
The Monash Vision Group is developing a cortical vision prosthesis to restore vision to the blind. We currently have various projects focussed around...
Supervisor: Dr Yan Wong
Peptides that covalently bind to protein targets offer a powerful strategy for the design of cancer theranostics by combining high molecular...
Supervisor: Dr Mark Del Borgo
Post‐acute infection syndromes (PAIS) are debilitating chronic conditions which disproportionately affect women as early as adolescence and into...
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is an important last-line treatment for advanced prostate cancer. ADT initially works well but eventually fails in...
Supervisor: Professor Renea Taylor
Metabolite based T cell immunity is emerging as a major player in antimicrobial immunity, autoimmunity, metabolic diseases, and cancer. Namely,...
Supervisor: Dr Wael Awad
A high body mass index (a clinical measure of adiposity) at mid‐life is an acknowledged risk factor for Alzheimer’s dementia (AD). Potential...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Siew Yeen Chai
Insulin‐regulated aminopeptidase, IRAP, is highly expressed in fat and skeletal muscle where is it found to accompany the insulin‐responsive glucose...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Siew Yeen Chai