Research Projects
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
Animal reproduction relies on the generation of sperm and oocytes by germline stem cells, whose development and function depend on protein synthesis...
Supervisor: Dr Wei Cao
This project would be situated within the Prato International Collaborative for Improvement in Parent, Child and Family Mental Health ("The...
Supervisor: Dr Rochelle Hine
Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) is a maternally-inherited mitochondrial disorder that...
Supervisor: Mary Herbert
Project type: Systematic Review
Background: Obesity is a complex health concern that impacts every facet of a patients life. Discussing obesity...
Supervisor: Dr Kimberley Norman
Everyday we're faced with a multitude of choices - some big, some small. We look at the information available to us, and make a decision. How is...
Supervisor: Dr Maureen Hagan
Lower jaw (mandible) fractures are the most common fractures of the head in civilians and military
personnel, disproportionately affecting minority...
Supervisor: Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou
Recent technological advances in micro and nano-fabrication technology and high-yield electrophysiology techniques allowed us to record the activity...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi
Animal and human behaviour frequently involves a choice between actions or goals with conflicting positive and negative outcomes (e.g. rewards and...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
Pregnancy can be a challenging time for women with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), as they face higher risks of complications. Maintaining optimal glucose...
Supervisor: Dr Negar Naderpoor
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
Brain cancers are notoriously aggressive, and current treatments are often ineffective at preventing disease progression. This research project...
Supervisor: Dr Iman Azimi
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that affects up to 1 in 7 menstruating people. There is no cure. Current treatments are limited....
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Cousins
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
Melanocytes are the pigment-producing cells in skin that originate from specialized pool of progenitor cells. These progenitor melanocytes are...
Supervisor: Dr Adriana Sanna
Cancer immunotherapy has revolutionised the treatment of several malignancies, yet many current strategies rely on highly personalised approaches...
Supervisor: Dr Tima Shamekhi
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