Research Projects
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
The global antimicrobial resistance crisis is predicted to result in 10 million yearly deaths by 2050 and has re-galvanised interest in the use of...
Supervisor: Assoc/Prof Kelly Wyres
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major cause of antibiotic resistant hospital-associated infections that can be extremely difficult to treat. The World...
Supervisor: Assoc/Prof Kelly Wyres
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a key global issue, with resistance to important antibiotics increasing yearly, resulting in 1.14 million deaths in...
Supervisor: Dr Margaret Lam
Juvenile granulosa cell tumours (jGCT) are rare ovarian tumours that occur predominantly in children and young women and are biologically distinct...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu
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
An estimated 12.3 million adolescent girls gave birth globally in 2025, according to WHO. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Supervisor: Dr Yeji Baek
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with its burden disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)....
Supervisor: Dr Lachlan Dalli
Type one diabetes (T1D) has reached epidemic proportions and people living with the disease are dependent on insulin therapy to help keep their blood...
Supervisor: Prof Christoph Hagemeyer
Monash Rural Health researchers collaborate with researchers from five other Australian Universities to better understand graduate outcomes of...
Supervisor: Dr Eleanor Mitchell
Hamstring and calf strain commonly occurs when the muscle actively lengthens. Although the muscle is “stretched” when injured, ‘strain’ beyond a...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Malliaras
Antigen presentation is the fundamental and complex process in which a cell breaks down proteins into small fragments (peptides) and presents these...
Supervisor: Chen Li
The human genome is dominated by non-protein encoding information. Indeed, the differences between humans and other animals cannot be accounted for...
Supervisor: Prof Traude Beilharz
The β-haemoglobin disorders such as β thalassaemia, haemoglobin E (HbE), and sickle cell disease (SCD) are among the most prevalent inherited...
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an incredibly aggressive form of lung cancer with limited treatment options, begging the need for major
therapeutic...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
Adaptive platform trials are an exciting innovation in trial design. They use master protocols to test multiple interventions at the same time and...
Supervisor: Dr Samantha Chakraborty