Research Projects
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
Current therapies for epilepsy are symptomatic, only suppressing the symptoms (seizures), but do not impact the development or progression of disease...
Supervisor: A/Prof Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
Our laboratory is internationally recognised for developing cutting-edge computational tools for the advanced analysis of next-generation sequencing...
Supervisor: Professor Wei Shi
Tuberous sclerosis, or “tuberous sclerosis complex” (TSC), is a lifelong genetic disorder that affects millions of individuals. TSC is manifest in...
Supervisor: Dr Charles Bayly-Jones
Pneumonia is highly prevalent and often deadly in stroke patients, raising the possibility of weakened lung immunity after stroke. The focus of this...
Supervisor: Professor Connie Wong
Industry-Academia PhD Position
New tools for immunopeptidomics
An opportunity for an outstanding PhD candidate to undertake a collaborative...
Supervisor: Professor Anthony Purcell
People may develop epilepsy at any time throughout their life, and there are many different causes of epilepsy. This study will identify whether...
Supervisor: Dr Emma Foster
Direct clinical relevance: high. Hands-on learning opportunities: Various aspects of work with mice and or human specimens, workup of tissues for...
Supervisor: Prof Claudia Nold
Therapies that enhance the immune response to tumours have revolutionised the management of cancer. However, most tumours do not have a high...
Supervisor: Professor Tony Tiganis
Background: Mitochondria are energy-producing organelles. They form a network inside cells, and their health is critical to cell function....
Supervisor: Dr Georg Ramm
Artificial Intelligence for the Prediction and Evolutionary Modelling of Chronic Subdural Haematoma Progression
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes that play a vital role in the immune response through their ability to directly kill transformed and...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
The immune system is one of the most dynamic in our bodies. The mechanisms that maintain immune homeostasis must contend with the constant churn of...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
Chronic cough affects about 10% of the global population with significant socioeconomic burden. Currently available therapeutic agents are not...
Supervisor: Dr Aung Aung Kywe Moe
Metabolite based T cell immunity is emerging as a major player in antimicrobial immunity, autoimmunity, cancer, and metabolic diseases. Initially,...
Supervisor: Dr Wael Awad
Medical health records are essential tools for documenting patients' medical histories. Standardizing these records is crucial because it allows...
Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Uribe
Novel anti inflammatory cytokines and cell therapies for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic immune mediated disorder affecting the intestine with no known cure. The pathogenesis of this disease results...
Supervisor: Dr Rimma Goldberg
Inflammatory pathways are a key contributor to diabetic vascular disease, including atherosclerosis. Underlying the development of vascular disease...
Supervisor: Dr Phillip Kantharidis
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal inherited neurodegenerative disorder, causing progressive brain degeneration, cognitive and motor impairment....
Supervisor: Professor Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis