Research Projects
Rationale for the study
At Monash Children’s Hospital (MCH) we routinely administer probiotics (Infloran®, B bifidum + L acidophilus) to preterm...
Supervisor: Dr Maurizio Pacilli
Open-label randomised controlled pilot study investigating human milk oligosaccharides supplementation effects in preterm neonates
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Cancer Australia has developed an Optimal Care Pathway (OCP) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cancer. The recommendations in...
Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
Babies that are born preterm are at risk of experiencing injury to the white matter of the brain, and as such developing neurodevelopmental disorders...
Supervisor: Dr Courtney McDonald
Frequent resistance to single-agent treatment means that doctors are turning to combination therapy, i.e. ‘cocktails of drugs’, to beat resistance....
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
Shift workers often experience misalignment between the circadian pacemaker (i.e. body clock) and the timing of sleep and wake. This leads to sleep...
Supervisor: Dr Tracey Sletten
Induction of labour is carried out when the risks of advancing gestation outweigh maternal and foetal benefits. It is one of the most frequent...
Supervisor: Professor Ben Mol
Induction of labour is carried out when the risks of advancing gestation outweigh maternal and foetal benefits. It is one of the most frequent...
Supervisor: Professor Ben Mol
Induction of labour is carried out when the risks of advancing gestation outweigh maternal and foetal benefits. It is one of the most frequent...
Supervisor: Professor Ben Mol
We are working within the Centre of Research Excellence: Health in Preconception, Pregnancy and Postpartum (CRE: HiPPP) to co-design and evaluate...
Supervisor: Dr Ruth Walker
Nearly 15 million infants are born preterm every year and preterm birth is the largest cause of death among newborn babies (age up to 28 days) and...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel
Induction of labour is a common practice for women in high-income countries—accounting for nearly a third of all births in Australia and other higher...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel
Almost a third of Australians are directly impacted by obesity and its accompanying adverse health effects. Recently, the emergence of novel, highly...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Priya Sumithran
Cancers of the oesophagus and stomach are common malignancies. Adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus and oesophago-gastric junction is one of the most...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
Bariatric surgery has been a defined surgical speciality for nearly fifty years. However, the number of weight loss procedures performed over the...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
The Paediatric Emergency Department at Monash Medical Centre is involved in a large number of clinical research projects, ranging from single-centre...
Supervisor: Simon Craig
To describe the epidemiology, presenting complaints and diagnoses of pediatric patients that present to an adult ED.
The overarching aim is to...
Supervisor: Professor Biswadev Mitra
Access to palliative care can be more challenging in rural compared with metropolitan areas. Multiple research priorities exist, including:
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Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
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The development of diabetes involves pathogenetic processes that either destroy the β-cells of the pancreas or...
Supervisor: Professor Sam El-Osta