Research Projects
Often misdiagnosed as migraine, visual snow (VS) is a persistent visual disturbance, described as viewing the world through a veil of flickering...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Owen White
Visual snow (VS) is a persistent visual disturbance, described as viewing the world through a veil of flickering dots, or static, much like the ‘snow...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Joanne Fielding
Obese older adults have high levels of disability and poor cardiometabolic health (eg. insulin resistance). Exercise is recommended for these...
Supervisor: Dr David Scott
Vocal fold movements with 320-slice CT and advanced Parkinson's Disease
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
VP shunt success: Does the accuracy of placement of the ventricular catheter predict shunt blockage rates? Does stereotactic placement of the...
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
A new frontier in biomedical research will involve watching individual proteins work in real time, in living organs. Traditionally, researchers have...
Supervisor: Professor Kieran Harvey
Wearable activity trackers are potentially useful and inexpensive tools for monitoring declines in physical activity and associated loss of mobility...
Supervisor: Dr David Scott
The development of reliable, accurate, non-invasive methodologies for continuous, long-term seizure monitoring is a critical part of the precision...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
High-impact activities, including running and jumping, apply greater forces to bone which increases bone density. There is currently no method for...
Supervisor: Dr David Scott
The prevention of obesity across population groups is a national and international priority. A new and innovative program, the healthy lifestyle...
Supervisor: Nutrition AND Dietetics Mmcc
Developing model of care to prevent postpartum weight retention
Assoc Prof Lisa Moran, Dr Siew Lim
Women of reproductive age are at high risk...
Supervisor: Dr Siew Lim
B-cell memory comprises both recirculating lymphocytes and long-lived plasma cells and develops as a natural consequence of infection and vaccination...
Supervisor: Professor David Tarlinton
Despite the availability of medical abortion in Australia since 2012, to date there has been little integration of this form of health care into...
Supervisor: Professor Danielle Mazza
Autophagy is a homeostatic mechanism common to most cells involved in the degradation and recycling of cytosolic constituents, including...
Supervisor: Dr James Harris
In 2018 the Global Data Protection Regulation was introduced. It requires businesses to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens for...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Susan Evans
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer affecting Australian men. The Prostate Cancer Outcome Registry was established in Victoria to monitor the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Susan Evans
This retrospective audit will examine the impact of drug withdrawals or deprescribing of certain medications on patients’ health outcomes in aged...
Supervisor: Dr Hanan Khalil
HIV remains a significant problem among men who have sex with men (MSM) living in Australia. Although there has been great progress in preventing and...
Supervisor: Dr Jason Ong
Whole genome sequence data is available for the GAERS epilepsy rat model of idiopathic generalised epilepsy (IGE), and its sibling strain the NEC non...
Supervisor: Professor Terence O'Brien
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common psychiatric disorder in children, consisting of age-inappropriate symptoms of inattention...
Supervisor: Dr Joohyung Lee