Research Projects
*** $3,000 scholarship on offer to one successful applicant ***
Individuals with pancreatic cancer have a high symptom burden. Research has shown...
Supervisor: Dr Liane Ioannou
*** $3,000 scholarship on offer to one successful applicant ***
Presentation and discussion of patient cases at multidisciplinary team (MDT)...
Supervisor: Dr Liane Ioannou
*** $3,000 scholarship on offer to one successful applicant ***
Early identification and referral of patients with unmet needs to supportive care...
Supervisor: Dr Liane Ioannou
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
Bariatric surgery is one of the most powerful health interventions available. A range of established surgical options are available, however,...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
Title of project: Measuring the value of spleen preserving procedures
Short description: The spleen is an important part of the immune system,...
Supervisor: Prof Ian Woolley
Antibiotic resistance continues to emerge and intensify. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a promising alternative to current antibiotics, but...
Supervisor: Professor Mibel Aguilar
This project aims to determine how conjugative antibiotic resistance and toxin plasmids are transferred in this important pathogenic bacterium.
Supervisor: E/Prof Julian Rood
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
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
Substantial data are building that the success of cancer therapy is impacted by the commensal microbes that live in or on the human body. This has...
Supervisor: Dr Miles Andrews
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