Research Projects
Protective immunity to malaria is mediated by antibodies that block parasite growth. Antibody development occurs within the germinal centres, and...
Supervisor: A/Prof Michelle Boyle
Seventy million people have epilepsy with 34–76 per 100,000 developing the condition every year. To formulate rational treatment plans, it is...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Background: Obesity and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) are two of the most significant health care problems facing our community – they are...
Supervisor: Professor Wendy Brown
The discovery of a hepatitis C (HCV) treatment has the potential to lead to disease elimination, with smaller countries such as Iceland likely to be...
Supervisor: Dr Nick Scott
Our laboratory aims to create new knowledge in host-pathogen interactions driven by intracellular bacterial pathogens. Our research team has projects...
Supervisor: Professor Hayley Newton
Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers) to improve healthcare services and health and medical research is...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
Comprehensive women's health service delivery includes the provision of essential services such as preconception care, contraception (including...
Supervisor: Professor Danielle Mazza
Traumatic brain injury is an altered brain function caused by an external force, such as car accidents and falls. Traumatic brain injury is a major...
Supervisor: Dr Gershon Spitz
Stroke affecting the visual pathway cause considerable disability due to impairment of visual field and driving. Previous study have suggested that...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
The risks associated with injecting drug use are determined by interactions between individual injecting behaviours and the environment' (e.g.,...
Supervisor: Professor Paul Dietze
Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers) to improve healthcare services and health and medical research is...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
Most mental disorders are thought to arise from subtle disturbances in brain network wiring – i.e., disordered brain connectivity. Several projects...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Alex Fornito
The human brain is a complex network comprising billions of neurons connected by trillions of synapses. Understanding how interactions unfolding on...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Alex Fornito
The anterior choroidal artery is a branch of the internal carotid artery and to a lesser extent the middle cerebral artery. It supplies the area from...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
The perinatal period is recognised as a time of transition and uncertainty, women are at risk for the development of a range of mental health issues...
Supervisor: Dr Rochelle Hine
The world health organisation recommends exclusive breastfeeding of infants
for 6 months and then continued breastfeeding until two years of age....
Supervisor: Dr Eleanor Mitchell
The increasing emergence and transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a major global health challenge. The island of Daru in Western...
Supervisor: Professor Caroline Homer
Understanding how the mind, encompassing all of our thoughts, feelings, behaviours, emotions, and experiences, emerges from the physical substrate of...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Alex Fornito
This study will examine the definition and measurement of post traumatic amnesia around the world. Post traumatic amnesia is a period of confusion,...
Supervisor: Miss Amelia Hicks
At the 2014 World Health Assembly, a commitment was made to better integrate Palliative Care into humanitarian emergencies. However, the integration...
Supervisor: Ms Katrina Recoche