Research Projects
We are working within the Centre of Research Excellence: Health in Preconception, Pregnancy and Postpartum (CRE: HiPPP) to co-design and evaluate...
Supervisor: Dr Ruth Walker
Nearly 15 million infants are born preterm every year and preterm birth is the largest cause of death among newborn babies (age up to 28 days) and...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel
Sleep-deprived EEG (SD-EEG) is a diagnostic tool used to enhance the detection of epileptiform abnormalities, particularly in patients with suspected...
Supervisor: Adj Clinical Professor Udaya Seneviratne
Induction of labour is a common practice for women in high-income countries—accounting for nearly a third of all births in Australia and other higher...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel
Almost a third of Australians are directly impacted by obesity and its accompanying adverse health effects. Recently, the emergence of novel, highly...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Priya Sumithran
Our research has optimized a non-pathogenic E. coli strain to deliver large, chromosome-sized genes into mammalian cells. We are exploring the...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Kumaran Narayanan
Burst suppression is a pattern of brain activity that can be observed on an electroencephalogram (EEG) and is characterized by alternating periods of...
Supervisor: Adj Clinical Professor Udaya Seneviratne
This project aims to assess outcomes in a statewide screening cohort by examining conditions genetically linked to intellectual disability. It seeks...
Supervisor: Dr. Mohammed Alshawsh
Cancers of the oesophagus and stomach are common malignancies. Adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus and oesophago-gastric junction is one of the most...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
Bariatric surgery has been a defined surgical speciality for nearly fifty years. However, the number of weight loss procedures performed over the...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
The Paediatric Emergency Department at Monash Medical Centre is involved in a large number of clinical research projects, ranging from single-centre...
Supervisor: Simon Craig
To describe the epidemiology, presenting complaints and diagnoses of pediatric patients that present to an adult ED.
The overarching aim is to...
Supervisor: Professor Biswadev Mitra
A variety of pain medicines are available in Australia, such as opioids, paracetamol and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Some medicines are...
Supervisor: Dr Michael Di Donato
Access to palliative care can be more challenging in rural compared with metropolitan areas. Multiple research priorities exist, including:
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Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
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The development of diabetes involves pathogenetic processes that either destroy the β-cells of the pancreas or...
Supervisor: Professor Sam El-Osta
Stroke associated pneumonia is sometimes known as aspiration pneumonia. This name aspiration pneumonia is unfortunate as it is assumed that pneumonia...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Systemic Lupus Erythematous is a complex heterogeneous disease. The pathogenesis of SLE remains poorly understood and we are working in major...
Supervisor: Professor Eric Morand
These studies examine the mechanistic pathways underlying insulin-resistant states (including diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome and pregnancy),...
Supervisor: Dr Aya Mousa