Research Projects
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
Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect, affecting approximately 1 in 500 live births. Many of these disorders involve...
Supervisor: Dr. Renee Chow
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
Heart valve stenosis is a common and life-threatening disease in which the heart valves become thickened and stiff, restricting blood flow and...
Supervisor: Dr. Renee Chow
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
Cells constantly monitor nutrients and energy levels to decide whether to grow, divide or recycle their contents. A major control point for this...
Supervisor: Professor Andrew Ellisdon
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
In the developing embryo, the heart begins as a simple tube that pumps blood inefficiently. As the embryo grows, the heart twists and grows and...
Supervisor: Dr. Renee Chow
Uptake of reliable and cost-effective long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants, is lower in...
Supervisor: Dr Nadia Lusis
Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a genetically heterogeneous disease characterised by the formation of multiple fluid-filled renal cysts which...
Supervisor: Dr Denny Cottle
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