Research Projects
Resistant hypertension is estimated to affect ~25% of hypertensive patients on treatment. Screening for a secondary cause such as primary...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jun Yang
Hypertension is a major risk factor for Cardiovascular Disease, the most common cause of death in Western Societies. Obese individuals are more...
Supervisor: Professor Wendy Brown
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
The 21st century has witnessed an explosion of digital devices (e.g. smartphones, health apps, wearables, digital pills, e-Health records, portable...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Adrian Carter
The problem: Restrictive practices (including seclusion and restraint) are seemingly intransigent problems across a range of sectors that support...
Supervisor: Professor Terrence Haines
Workers' compensation is a form of insurance to cover employees if they are injured at work or become sick due to their work. A key goal of...
Supervisor: Dr Shannon Gray
Anti Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody (ANCA) Vasculitis is an autoimmune disease characterised by inflammationof the small blood vessels that induces...
Supervisor: Dr Kim O'Sullivan
Review of Stem cells as a therapy for Ischemic stroke (focus on homing molecules)
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Review of the impact of Blockchain technology on Neurosurgery in the future
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Breast cancer, a globally prevalent and challenging disease, continues to impact countless lives. Unlocking the full potential of cancer...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
A New Frontier in Healthcare: The era of one-size-fits-all medicine is giving way to a more tailored approach, where treatments and interventions are...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
Risk stratification and outcomes prediction in patients using applied machine learning and natural language processing
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Here we will combine omics technologies with novel muscle-specific gene manipulation technologies to discover novel signalling pathways controlling...
Supervisor: Dr Adam Rose
Plasmin (Plm) plays a crucial role in blood clot dissolution (fibrinolysis), inflammation, cellular migration and wound healing. Alpha2-antiplasmin (...
Supervisor: Dr Ruby Law
Atherosclerosis is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease (CVD) related premature deaths in people with diabetes. Residual increased risk of...
Supervisor: Dr Waheed Khan
Natural killer (NK) cells are the founding members of the innate lymphoid cell family and contribute to the rapid production of inflammatory...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
Lytic forms of programmed cell death, pyroptosis and necroptosis, play an integral role in driving innate inflammatory responses and tissue damage in...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Kate Lawlor
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Brain inflammation appears to play a critical role in the pathogenesis of epilepsy. A major cell type involved in inflammatory cascades...
Supervisor: Dr Idrish Ali
The mammalian oocyte is the largest cell in the body and undergoes two highly specialised asymmetric meiotic cell divisions. Coordination of...
Supervisor: Professor John Carroll
The Bcl-2 family of proteins is crucial for apoptosis (a form of programmed cell death) regulation. The Bcl-2 proteins are synthesized in cytosolic...
Supervisor: Professor Mibel Aguilar