Research Projects
Surface polysaccharides are common antigens in priority bacterial pathogens and therefore attractive targets for novel control strategies such as...
Supervisor: Dr Tom Stanton
Transplantation is life-saving for patients with end-stage organ disease. However, immunosuppressive medications are required to prevent organ...
Supervisor: Brad Gardiner
The Stem Cell Laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience are investigating new treatments for a class of patients that do not respond to mainstream...
Supervisor: Dr Ana Antonic-Baker
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Labour Care Guide (LCG) was developed to promote women-centred care while maintaining effective monitoring during...
Supervisor: Dr Maureen Makama
Study of the impact of migraine therapies on bone health in chronic migraine
Supervisor: Dr Jason C. Ray
Clinical project evaluating the impact of nursing shared care in the headache service of Alfred Health.
Supervisor: Dr Jason C. Ray
Oesophageal adenocarcinoma is one the cancers most closely associated with obesity and has demonstrated a 400% increase over the past 30 years. The...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
A sudden worsening of respiratory symptoms in Chronic obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is called a flare up. These flare ups are caused by...
Supervisor: Dr Arwel Jones
Exercise has been shown to reduce disability and improve fitness after stroke. Despite strong evidence exercise programs are not commonly included in...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon Kramer
Exploring antimicrobial resistance plasmid diversity at a single hospital network in a 7-year period
Plasmid transmission between bacteria of the same or different species is an important driver of genetic diversity, bacterial adaptation and...
Supervisor: Dr Margaret Lam
Fatigue and tiredness after stroke is a commonly reported symptom, although early after stroke people often struggle to understand the term when...
Supervisor: Professor Natasha Lannin
Background: Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs), formed via the processing of foods, are a major constituent of our modern convenience diet....
Supervisor: Professor Melinda Coughlan
The brain's waste clearance system, the glymphatic system, is essential for maintaining a healthy neuronal environment and homeostasis....
Supervisor: Dr Ben Sinclair
Glioblastoma is a rare brain tumour, with an annual incidence of 6.8 per 100,000 people in Australia, with a 5-year survival rate of less than 5%....
Supervisor: Dr Neha Kaul
Around 70 million people worldwide have epilepsy and more than 30% of patients are drug-resistant. Drug resistance is currently an unmet need due to...
Supervisor: Dr. Shahid Javaid
The cEEG and Stem Cell Laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience are investigating new treatments for a class of patients that do not respond to...
Supervisor: A/Prof Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
This research program aims to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility and fidelity of a co-designed FRAIL-Scale to inform preventive strategies for...
Supervisor: Dr Ching Shan (Angela) Wan
Gastric cancer (GC) is the fourth most common cancer globally. It has defined premalignant stages and progresses through Intestinal Metaplasia (IM)...
Supervisor: Professor Alex Boussioutas
Generating mouse models of clonal hematopoiesis to study the potential of apsirin to prevent cancers
Clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), defined as the presence of blood cancer-associated mutations with a variant allele frequency...
Supervisor: Professor David Curtis
Acquired epilepsy is the most common form of drug resistant acquired epilepsy in adults, where seizures continue to occur despite antiepileptic drug...
Supervisor: A/Prof Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD