Research Projects
This project aims to develop a mobile-health system for unborn babies, using non-invasive easy-to-operate devices linked to a mobile phone. The...
Supervisor: Dr Eleanor Mitchell
Brain activity forms the core of human cognition, influencing our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Understanding the intricacies of how it...
Supervisor: Dr Leonardo Gollo
Background: Leukaemia accounts for ~30% of all childhood cancers and ~20% of childhood cancer deaths, representing the most common pediatric cancer...
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael
Work towards a PhD degree, that will develop a computational network model of complex biological system. You will investigate how different types of...
Supervisor: Dr Steve Mehrkanoon
Eating disorders and drug addiction share many common traits, including biological and environmental factors that predispose individuals to...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Foldi
The epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal failure represents a crisis for health world-wide. Recent work indicates that CKD...
Supervisor: Professor Sharon Ricardo
Our skin contains special pigment-producing cells called melanocytes, which protect us from the sun’s UV radiation and give skin its color. Sometimes...
Supervisor: Dr Adriana Sanna
Brain stimulation is a powerful therapeutic approach for an increasing number of neuropsychiatric disorders. However, the exact mechanisms and ideal...
Supervisor: Dr Leonardo Gollo
The human brain is wrinkled: a design thought to maximize the number of neurons packed into the limited space of the skull. But recent AI-driven...
Supervisor: Daisuke Shimaoka, Group Leader
This research project aims to generate patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived brain cells to model the effects of Type I...
Supervisor: Dr. Natalia G. Sampaio
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are not only the leading cause of death in women but also contribute significantly to disability. Women with a history...
Supervisor: Dr Maureen Makama
The innate immune system is capable of intricately detailed detection, differentiation and elimination of pathogenic bacteria. However, the vast...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sam Forster
Metallo‐peptidases cleave amino acids from either the N‐ and C‐termini of peptide hormones to either generate or degrade biologically active peptides...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Siew Yeen Chai
Fibroblasts in the lymph nodes are able to regulate differentiation and localization of innate and adaptive immune cells. They are also a primary...
Supervisor: Dr Kostas Knoblich
Many cancers display differences in incidence, prognosis, and treatment response between males and females. In most cases, it is not well understood...
Supervisor: Dr Miles Andrews
Interleukin (IL)-37 was discovered in silico in 2000, but received very little attention (not even 10 publications) in general and nothing at all was...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
TCR recognition of peptide + MHC class I complexes (pMHCI) is central to CD8+ T cell function. It is clear that the nature of the TCR-pMHCI...
Supervisor: Professor Nicole La Gruta
This project focuses on the basic and translational research of cancer, inflammation and thrombosis. We design, test and implement novel nano-/...
Supervisor: Professor Karlheinz Peter
DC take up, process and present antigen (Ag) to T cells to initiate immune responses. There are multiple DC subsets that are tailored for different...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Mireille Lahoud
Granulosa cell tumours (GCT) of the ovary are endocrine tumours that both make and respond to hormones. We have recently confirmed a key mutation in...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu