Research Projects
Current peak body guidelines for a hospital trauma response generally follow a three-tiered hierarchy. Trauma responses are indicated for trauma...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
This project utilises an innovative solution to a major health care problem. Behavioural emergencies, such as aggression and self-harm, are...
Supervisor: Dr Marijke Mitchell
Phase-contrast MRI (PC-MRI) is a non-invasive technique that accurately measures blood flow and calculates hemodynamic parameters by inducing a...
Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Uribe
This project aims to develop nanoparticle contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that selectively target molecular markers of...
Supervisor: Prof Christoph Hagemeyer
Mountain gorillas currently live in two, discontinuous localities in east and central Africa: the Virunga Mountains and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest....
Supervisor: Dr Jason Massey
Alternative splicing is a regulatory pathway that can can change the messenger RNA produced from a gene and subsequently the proteins that are...
Supervisor: Dr Carlos Rosado
Monash University is seeking a high-calibre and ambitious PhD candidate to work in the sports industry examining the relationships between sleep,...
Supervisor: Dr Elise Facer-Childs
The number of emergency service personnel reporting sleep problems is high (due to shift work schedules, stress, etc.). So too is the proportion of...
Supervisor: Dr Alexander Wolkow
Sleep is a major concern of clients undergoing detoxification and withdrawal from many drugs including alcohol, illicit substances, and prescription...
Supervisor: Dr Rowan Ogeil
Interstitial lung diseases (or ILD) are a group of chronic lung scarring diseases, which is the second leading cause of death due to chronic lung...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Yet Hong Khor
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) affects up to one in five Australians. It is caused by repetitive collapse of the airway during sleep, causing...
Supervisor: Dr Melinda Jackson
Most behavioural and health risk research focuses on individual characteristics, ignoring the potential effects of social networks. For example, a...
Supervisor: Doctor Rachel Sacks-Davis
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is generally due to abnormalities either in a protein called tau (45%) or a protein called TDP-43 (45%). In both types...
Supervisor: Professor Terence O'Brien
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide. Whilst we are seeing an increase in the availability of targeted therapies,...
Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Gough
Spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical network activity: the link between micro- and mesoscale activity
Spontaneous synchronization is a common phenomenon occurring in diverse contexts, from a group of glowing fireflies or chirping crickets in a field...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi
The production of sperm and male fertility are dependent on a population of cells found in the testis known as spermatogonial stem cells or SSCs....
Supervisor: A/Prof. Robin Hobbs
We have identified specific sphingolipids that control brain development and protect the nervous system throughout life. This exciting project will...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Pocock
Health economists use discrete choice experiments and a range of other stated preference techniques to explore preferences and choice behaviour...
Supervisor: Dr Jemimah Ride
The Combes laboratory has opportunities for postgraduate research projects in animal and stem cell models of kidney development and disease, advanced...
Supervisor: Dr Alex Combes
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus continues to increase worldwide leading to premature mortality. About 30% of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D)...
Supervisor: Professor Sharon Ricardo