Research Projects
Spectroscopy, an analytical chemical technique is an attractive approach for analysing human disease for biomarker discovery. Biospecimens can be...
Supervisor: Dr Charlotte Keung
Inflammation-induced brain injury remains one of the main causes of lifelong disability after birth. There is no effective treatment. Elevated levels...
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Exposure to infection/inflammation during the perinatal period is one of the main causes of impaired neurodevelopment. To develop effective...
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an established treatment for cancer which relies on the use of a specific wavelength of light to activate a compound (...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
Development and evaluation of a national paediatric surgery simulation-based education programme for consent
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Project combined with Prof Debra Nestel (Simulation Professor at Monash University).
The initial project will center on the translation of a...
Supervisor: Professor Ram Nataraja
Development and evaluation of a national paediatric surgery simulation-based education programme for consent.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Development and validation of an operating room orientation educational programme for Novices
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
The operating room theatre environment can be a potential confronting and difficult environment for novices including medical students and nursing...
Supervisor: Professor Ram Nataraja
Development and validation of an operating room orientation educational programme for Novices.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Development and validation of augmented reality headsets for remote operating assisting in a low resource setting.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
It is estimated that half of the world’s population have Helicobacter pylori infection. This bacterium lives in the stomach where it causes...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
Protein kinase R (PKR) is a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-activated serine/threonine kinase integral to the cellular stress response. Upon binding to...
Supervisor: Dr Sophia Davidson
More than 200 children are diagnosed with high-risk cancer in Australia each year. Over 140 of these children still lose their life due to the...
Supervisor: Dr Pouya Faridi
The study aims to understand how preterm babies develop the ability to recognise and understand faces. Exposure to faces and facial expressions are...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Flora Wong
the development of clinically relevant cancer models that recapitulate human cancer is key to both understanding biological mechanisms of cancer...
Supervisor: Dr Ron Firestein
There is interest in the use of simple bedside testing for the diagnosis of Parkinson disease. Several groups have applied machine learning methods...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Over 41,000 people are admitted with stroke to Australian hospitals annually, and 7 out of 10 survivors will suffer cognitive impairment or dementia...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara R Cardoso
The aims of this study are to test the most effective way to provide feedback to clinicians and hospital executives. The project is being supported...
Supervisor: Professor Dominique Cadilhac
Recent developments in the field of large language models (LLM) have showcased impressive achievements in their ability to perform natural language...
Supervisor: Adj Assoc Prof Peter Poon