Research Projects
Age-related olfactory sensory decay, including smell loss and defective odor-discrimination, during normal and pathological aging is a prominent...
Supervisor: Dr Jie Liu
Diseases such as SLE (lupus) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are treated by glucocorticoids (steroids), because these drugs are highly effective....
Supervisor: Professor Eric Morand
The gastrointestinal bacterial pathogens enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) and Shigella translocate virulence proteins, termed "effector proteins...
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Hartland
We have identified novel molecules expressed during the early events of ovarian cancer invasion to healthy tissue. We hypothesize that these...
Supervisor: Dr Maree Bilandzic
Unlike other infections in which one single encounter with the pathogen is enough to induce long-lasting protection, immunity to malaria might take...
Supervisor: Prof Diana Hansen
Viruses pose one of the grand challenges to human and animal health globally and within Australia. Viral disease progression is critically dependent...
Supervisor: Dr Gregory Moseley
Currently the only available effective and durable treatment for morbid obesity is bariatric surgery. Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy (VSG) is the most...
Supervisor: Dr Aneta Stefanidis
Currently the only available effective and durable treatment for morbid obesity is bariatric surgery. Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy (VSG) is the most...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Oldfield
During aging in human, joints, tendons and skin deteriorate both morphologically and functionally, resulting in a progressive physiological...
Supervisor: Dr Jie Liu
Exclusive enteral nutrition (ENN)-therapy is a first line therapy for IBD with efficacy similar to, or better, than that of corticosteroids....
Supervisor: Professor Nicola Harris
This project will determine the effects of blood flow on immune cell function and identify receptors that control such effects.
Shear stress...
Supervisor: Professor Karlheinz Peter
Stroke is a global leading cause of death and disability. Despite this, there is currently no
treatment to limit inflammatory events which has been...
Supervisor: Dr Joshua Bourne
I have several research interests in public health and medical & health professions education. The common aspect to all my projects is the focus...
Supervisor: Professor Dragan Ilic
This research project aims to explore the relative importance of medical knowledge and soft skills in healthcare consultations, providing valuable...
Supervisor: Dr Kimberley Norman
How can we enable medical students to envision differently? This project will explore, through pre and post qualitative survey questions, an art...
Supervisor: Dr Margaret Simmons
With the increasing focus on community-based care, the majority of older people never end up in residential aged care. This is often with the support...
Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
This project involves examining trajectories of salivary immune markers and hormones from 3-4 waves of a longitudinal cohort of adolescent girls in...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Byrne
Accurate prediction of neurologic outcome after hypoxic coma is important. We have previously published on the utility of pupillary responses,...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
This project is suitable for Honours or Masters (modified version) and PhD students.
Background:
Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is an aggressive...
Supervisor: Dr Claudia Bruedigam
We develop methods for single particle electron microscopy (SPEM). Our SPEM developments are motivated by our interest in transcriptional control...
Supervisor: Dr Dominika Elmlund