Research Projects
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
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is characterized by repetitive collapse (apnoea) or partial collapse (hypopnoea) of the pharyngeal airway during sleep...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Garun Hamilton
The Mediator complex with its catalytic subunit the Mediator kinase module, composed of CDK8/19 and other members, is multimeric complex regulating...
Supervisor: Dr Marius Dannappel
HIV infection has a substantial impact on immune cells, and whilst many of these effects are improved after starting anti-HIV therapy, they are often...
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps
Self-reactive T cells cause many autoimmune diseases, and can also trigger serious autoimmune side-effects in cancer patients undergoing...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ross Dickins
We manage the Australian Autoinflammatory Disease Registry (AADRY.org), and collaborate widely to identify genetic variants that may be the cause of...
Supervisor: Prof Seth Masters
Incomplete reporting of systematic reviews prevents users of the report from being able to fully interpret the findings and understand the...
Supervisor: Dr Matthew Page
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), predominantly Crohn’s Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), is a chronic inflammatory condition of unknown...
Supervisor: A/Prof Edward Giles
Our laboratory has a major interest in breast cancer, particularly the triple negative/basal breast cancer subtype, which is associated with poor...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Daly
Congenital syphilis, caused by mother to child transmission of syphilis, is the second leading cause of stillbirth globally. Definitive diagnosis of...
Supervisor: Dr Minh Pham