Research Projects
Although TMZ is the fundamental treatment modality for GBM patients, the development of TMZ resistance contributes significantly towards GBM...
Supervisor: Alfarizal Kamarudin
Cancer survivorship rates have increased significantly, placing increased demand on health services. There is little published information about...
Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
In Australia about 26,873 infants are born preterm each year. Despite an increase in survival, developmental morbidity has not improved, with more...
Supervisor: Professor Rosemary Horne
Background:
Antenatal hydronephrosis (ANH) occurs in approximately 1% of pregnancies. While many affected infants undergo monitoring and are...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kiarash Taghavi
Antiepileptic drug is the mainstay of treatment modality for epilepsy. People with epilepsy often require lifelong antiepileptic drug treatment....
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Skin-related (dermatological) conditions are common among military personnel. In Wave 2 (2011-2012) of the Australian Gulf War Veterans’ Health Study...
Supervisor: Dr StellaMay Gwini
Lung cancer is the leading cancer burden and the leading contributor to lung cancer mortality.
The use of a Clinical Quality Registry (CQR) is an...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Robert Stirling
Stem cell-based therapies are emerging as novel and innovative approaches to treat neurological diseases. The successful development of these...
Supervisor: Dr Ana Antonic-Baker
Recently, renal denervation (removing the renal nerves) has been shown to be an effective and safe treatment for human resistant hypertension and is...
Supervisor: Professor Katherine Denton
Tumours lose features of multicellularity, such as tissue differentiation and coordinated cell division, and start to resemble colonial unicellular...
Supervisor: Dr David Goode
We will be using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms to understand how different part of the brain are connected to each other to...
Supervisor: Dr. Adeel Razi
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1) Predict which patients with epilepsy will become seizure...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Sinclair
Air quality monitoring stations are limited in the world. It is impossible to assess the health impacts of air pollution in some areas without air...
Supervisor: Professor Yuming Guo
Are you passionate about leveraging machine learning to revolutionize healthcare? Join our cutting-edge PhD project focused on applying advanced...
Supervisor: Professor Arul Earnest
The current standard of care for epilepsy is to commence treatment with a single antiseizure medication (ASM) and if it fails, try successive drug...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
The aim of this project is to integrate clinical information on brain tumor and genomic characterization data of the biopsied material. The student...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Despite the huge success of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, unwanted inflammation due to activation of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Michael Gantier
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