Research Projects
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a key global issue, with resistance to important antibiotics increasing yearly, resulting in 1.14 million deaths in...
Supervisor: Dr Margaret Lam
Type one diabetes (T1D) has reached epidemic proportions and people living with the disease are dependent on insulin therapy to help keep their blood...
Supervisor: Prof Christoph Hagemeyer
The level of mortality and disease among pregnant women and young children in Papua New Guinea is very high. Low birthweight and poor growth during...
Supervisor: Professor James Beeson
Epilepsy is a severe neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures that affect 1% of the population worldwide. Traumatic brain injury (...
Supervisor: A/Prof Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
The strongest predictor of experiencing a severe COPD exacerbation (flare-up) requiring hospital admission is having had a severe exacerbation in the...
Supervisor: Professor Anne Holland
Pulmonary rehabilitation is a critical treatment for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that improves exercise capacity and...
Supervisor: Professor Anne Holland
The acquisition of resistance to therapies by cancer cells, sadly, is often inevitable. To effectively treat cancer, we need to understand how...
Supervisor: Dr Omer Gilan
In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka and colleagues made the groundbreaking discovery that differentiated cells can be reprogrammed back to a pluripotent state...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Matthew McCormack
Melanocytes are the pigment-producing cells in skin that originate from specialized pool of progenitor cells. These progenitor melanocytes are...
Supervisor: Prof Mark Shackleton, Dr Adriana Sanna
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and related conditions are rare brain diseases that affect movement, thinking, and behaviour. These disorders...
Supervisor: Dr Roxane Dilcher
Project summary
Work towards a PhD degree, that will develop a computational network model of complex biological system. You will investigate how...
Supervisor: Dr Steve Mehrkanoon
Chronic immune-related comorbidities such as autoimmunity, bronchiectasis (irreversible lung damage), and gastrointestinal disease affect up to 68%...
Supervisor: Dr Emily Edwards
Project Aims: To link databases of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program of Melbourne Epilepsy Centres with the National Death Index and National...
Supervisor: Professor Terence O'Brien
Profiling auto-reactive B cells and their targets with the goal to identify shared antigenic responses.
Supervisor: Prasanti Kotagiri
Neuroimaging provides a multitude of non-invasive methods to better understand the pathology and pathogenesis of neurological and neuropsychiatric...
Supervisor: Dr Lucy Vivash
From early in life we are exposed to trillions of microbes and food proteins through our intestines, and only occassionally are the microbes...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
Project Description:
Respiratory diseases present a health challenge that spans the globe and accounts for one-tenth of all disability adjusted...
Supervisor: Professor Nicola Harris
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic poses a continued threat to public health and well-being, especially in people who have a compromised immune system....
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
The spleen is an important organ of the immune system and it is often removed for the treatment of different medical conditions, to perform surgery...
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
Impact of pregnancy on long-term outcomes in women with multiple sclerosis – assessment of mechanism
Data suggests that pregnancy in women with multiple sclerosis (MS) may exert long-term health benefits. Comparisons of women with and without...
Supervisor: Professor Vilija Jokubaitis