Research Projects
Given the Australian Government spent over $135 million on older person health assessments in 2019 alone, it is important that the value of the 75+HA...
Supervisor: Dr Eleanor Mitchell
Oligodendrocytes play a vital role as supporting cells within the central nervous system, aiding in signal transmission among a plethora of other...
Supervisor: Yasith Mathangasinghe
Cognitive impairment is a common and clinically significant feature of mental ill-health, (acquired, epileptic, and neurodegenerative) brain...
Supervisor: Dr Jai Carmichael
The rising rates of obesity represent a serious public health challenge worldwide. It currently outranks smoking as a leading modifiable risk factor...
Supervisor: Dr Geraldine Ooi
Advanced age is the strongest risk factor for cancer development, with 1 in 2 persons developing cancer by age 85. Despite being a strong predictor...
Supervisor: Dr Lochlan Fennell
Psychedelic therapies are undergoing a innovation revolution. There has been a rapid increase in the number of research trials, funding, commercial...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Adrian Carter
Cancer survivors are at increased risk of future cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension, are common among cancer...
Supervisor: Sean Tan
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
This project is suitable for Honours, Masters (by Research) and PhD students.
Background
B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL) remains a...
Supervisor: Donia Moujalled
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