Research Projects
In Australia, 20% of pregnancies occur within the first year of a birth and most are unintended. Unintended pregnancies and short interpregnancy...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Botfield
Pregnancy complications lead to significant maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. The Fetal Medicine Foundation has developed prediction...
Supervisor: Daniel Rolnik
Cancer Australia has developed an Optimal Care Pathway (OCP) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cancer. The recommendations in...
Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and obesity in pregnancy is increasing in Australia and is associated with substantial maternal and...
Supervisor: Dr. Rebecca Goldstein
Cancer survivorship is rapidly increasing, with more than 70% of Australians now living at least five years after diagnosis and 64% living longer...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Ayse Zengin
Frequent resistance to single-agent treatment means that doctors are turning to combination therapy, i.e. ‘cocktails of drugs’, to beat resistance....
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
Epilepsy is a condition that affects the brain and causes repeated seizures. A seizure is a temporary disruption in the brain’s electrical activity...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
AI projects (Some technical knowledge preferrable)
Optimising Federated Learning in healthcare
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
The literature providing evidence of the high prevalence and significant impacts of snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in children is recent...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Gillian Nixon
Shift workers often experience misalignment between the circadian pacemaker (i.e. body clock) and the timing of sleep and wake. This leads to sleep...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tracey Sletten
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
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