Research Projects
In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka and colleagues made the groundbreaking discovery that differentiated cells can be reprogrammed back to a pluripotent state...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Matthew McCormack
Typical symptoms of dengue include sudden onset of fever accompanied by headache, muscle pains, rash, cough, vomiting and haemorrhagic manifestations...
Supervisor: Prof Diana Hansen
Sarcomas are a rare type of cancer that originate in the connective tissue of the body, including fat, muscle, bone, and cartilage. Sarcoma’s can...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jason Cain
Brain cancers are notoriously aggressive, and current treatments are often ineffective at preventing disease progression. This research project...
Supervisor: Dr Iman Azimi
Despite advancement in treatment, cancer remains a leading public health burden worldwide. Our understanding of genetic alterations in cancer has...
Supervisor: Dr Terry Lim
Whilst dichotomous thresholds are currently used to diagnose primary aldosteronism (PA), emerging data support the concept of a continuum of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jun Yang
Shortly following invasion, Babesia bovis induces the formation of unique structures on the RBC surface, which we have termed ‘ridges’. Importantly,...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
Clozapine is one of the multi-target drugs that remains the only approved treatment for treatment-resistant schizophrenia. The multi-target nature of...
Supervisor: Dr Sathish Periyasamy
Despite significant progress in prevention and treatment, stroke remains a leading cause of death and disability globally. Particularly, the number...
Supervisor: Dr Muideen Olaiya
Uptake of reliable and cost-effective long-acting reversible contraception, such as IUDs and implants, is lower in Australia compared to similarly...
Supervisor: Dr Nadia Lusis
Frailty is a common geriatric syndrome characterized by reduced physiological reserve across multiple health domains that collectively make a person...
Supervisor: Aung Zaw Zaw Phyo
Calls to ambulance for stroke represent approximately 3% of emergency calls. Current versions of emergency calling taking protocol include a Stroke...
Supervisor: Professor Janet Bray
Tumour formation and progression are driven by widespread changes in gene regulation. We have combined machine learning with gene co-expression...
Supervisor: Dr David Goode
Infection triggers large-scale changes in the phenotype and function of killer T cells that are critical for immune function, yet the gene regulatory...
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Turner
Identifying inmmuno peptide targets for development of novel T cell therapies in brain tumours
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Stroke is a debilitating disease that can cause permanent neurological damage, complications, and death. At present, there are very few treatment...
Supervisor: Dr Bradley Broughton
Paediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGG) represent some of the most deadly brain cancers in children, differing significantly from adult gliomas in...
Supervisor: Dr Yichen Zhou
Project Aims: To link databases of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program of Melbourne Epilepsy Centres with the National Death Index and National...
Supervisor: Professor Terence O'Brien
Paediatric surgeons manage a spectrum of conditions, from the neonatal period up to 16-18 years of age; however much of the scientific evidence for...
Supervisor: Dr Maurizio Pacilli
Differences of sex development include sex chromosome aneuploidies such as Turner syndrom (TS) and Klinefelter syndrome (KS). Women with TS lack one...
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley