Research Projects
*** Background ***
Some diagnostic tests and screening are overused and cause overdiagnosis. This can lead to avoidable patient harms and...
Supervisor: Mr Tomas Rozbroj
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
A process of primary care renewal is evolving across the developed world. It is increasingly recognised that high performing primary care that has a...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
Plasma cells (PC) are the only cell type secreting antibodies, which are important for protective immunity to fight against pathogens. However,...
Supervisor: Dr Zhoujie (Zoe) Ding
The acquisition of resistance to therapies by cancer cells, sadly, is often inevitable. To effectively treat cancer, we need to understand how...
Supervisor: Dr Omer Gilan
Maternity care in Victoria is provided under a number of models of care. Model of care has recently been added to the data provided on all births in...
Supervisor: Dr Mary-Ann Davey
Mitochondria are critical to cellular function, producing cellular bioenergy, but they also have important roles in ion homeostasis, programmed cell...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) designated psilocybin as a “breakthrough therapy” in 2018 based on its efficacy in treatment-resistant...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Foldi
Developing tumour cells interact with a complex and heterogeneous ecosystem, namely the tumour microenvironment (TME), comprising mutant and wild-...
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan
This exciting project will use genetic techniques to identify mechanisms that control brain development in the Caenorhabditis elegans model. The C....
Supervisor: Professor Roger Pocock
The project will investigate how the social environment within which primary care patients manage their illness can buffer feelings of stigma and...
Supervisor: A/Prof Chris Barton
Learning is essential to successfully adapt to changing environments. The process of learning uses experience to guide current and future behaviour...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
Hunger can tune our sense of smell to help find food, identify foods high in calories and affect memories associated with food. Currently, we do not...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
Our ability to recover from injury is crucial for survival. The mechanism by which plasminogen promotes wound healing is poorly understood. It is...
Supervisor: Dr Ruby Law
Group A Streptococcus hijacks host plasminogen to facilitate colonization and dissemination. This infection can lead to life-threatening infections...
Supervisor: Dr Ruby Law
Despite current diabetes management, patients with glucose-lowering therapies often deal with hypoglycemia, a condition with abnormally low blood...
Supervisor: Dr Romana Stark
To be able to stave off infections and cancers throughout life, our immune systems first need to recognise and tolerate the ~200 different cell types...
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Daley
Cancer cells can acquire stromal or developmental-like phenotypes allowing them to masquerade as other cell types, making the challenge of...
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan
Tendon pain is common and can be associated with a long symptom duration leading to frustration for individuals and clinicians alike. There has been...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Malliaras
The Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) longitudinal survey of doctors has, since 2008, sought to understand the work...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell