Research Projects
People usually begin to lose some degree of height around the age of 40 and their rate of decline in height tends to increase with age. Such height...
Supervisor: Aung Zaw Zaw Phyo
The problem: Picture this… Cheng is an 83-year-old woman living with dementia in a residential aged care facility (RACF), she has frequent falls....
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The currently identified genetic prostate cancer risk factors account for less than 40% of the familial risk for the disease. Very few of these...
Supervisor: Professor Melissa Southey
Known genetic risk factors for prostate cancer include rare genetic variants in prostate cancer predisposition genes that are associated with high to...
Supervisor: Professor Melissa Southey
For over 100 years the need to understand particular disease causing, bacterial isolates to treat disease has been clearly understood. Importantly,...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sam Forster
Epilepsy is a severe neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures that affect 1% of the population worldwide. Traumatic brain injury (...
Supervisor: A/Prof Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
In collaboration with a Maternal-Fetal Medicine colleague from the United States who has been working on the role of Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA)...
Supervisor: Daniel Rolnik
The MACPF/CDC family proteins use a common fold to oligomerise into a ring-shaped transmembrane pore capable of either direct cell lysis or passive...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Michelle Dunstone
Contemporary treatment of multiple myeloma and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) still relies heavily on steroids (glucocorticoids - like...
Supervisor: Professor Jake Shortt
This study examines the mental health outcomes for people who are treated in a novel, post-suicide attempt outreach program. The program is one of...
Supervisor: Adj ClinAssProf Judith Hope
Hospital admissions can expose older adults to a spectrum of avoidable and costly harms. Not least of these is hospital-associated functional decline...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Christina Ekegren
Immunity to malaria is slow to develop due to the rapid induction of regulatory cell responses that hamper adaptive immunity. Type I IFN signalling...
Supervisor: A/Prof Michelle Boyle
Male and female brains differ in anatomy and chemistry The prevailing dogma that oestrogen is the key factor involved in brain sex differentiation...
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
This study will be undertaken in collaboration with health care providers in palliative care and addiction services. The palliative care of people...
Supervisor: Ms Katrina Recoche
In order to prepare health professionals and health systems for the impacts of climate and environmental change, there is an urgent need to...
Supervisor: Professor Claire Palermo
Injury creates a fertile environment allowing for plasticity mechanisms to shape recovery. The ability of the brain to reorganize synaptic...
Supervisor: Dr Nafiseh Atapour
Skeletal muscle is the largest tissue by mass in the human body and yet there is a major clinical gap in the lack of treatments for diseased muscle....
Supervisor: Meagan McGrath
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Some diagnostic tests and screening are overused and cause overdiagnosis. This can lead to avoidable patient harms and healthcare...
Supervisor: Mr Tomas Rozbroj
Cells need to know when enough nutrients and lipids are available to grow. Our recent work identified GPR155 as an unexpected cholesterol-sensing...
Supervisor: Professor Andrew Ellisdon
Gastric cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death, claiming more than 1 million lives annually. A major predisposing factor to developing...
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan