Research Projects
Antiepileptic drug is the mainstay of treatment modality for epilepsy. People with epilepsy often require lifelong antiepileptic drug treatment....
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Stem cell-based therapies are emerging as novel and innovative approaches to treat neurological diseases. The successful development of these...
Supervisor: Dr Ana Antonic-Baker
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1) Predict which patients with epilepsy will become seizure...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Sinclair
The current standard of care for epilepsy is to commence treatment with a single antiseizure medication (ASM) and if it fails, try successive drug...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a serious and unpredictable complication of traumatic brain
injury (TBI). Identifying reliable electrophysiological...
Supervisor: Dr Matt Hudson
Seventy million people have epilepsy with 34–76 per 100,000 developing the condition every year. To formulate rational treatment plans, it is...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Background: Obesity and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) are two of the most significant health care problems facing our community – they are...
Supervisor: Professor Wendy Brown
Biological responses typically follow distributions that can be modelled mathematically, conforming to standard structures. In recent work, we...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
Bariatric surgery is one of the most powerful health interventions available. A range of established surgical options are available, however,...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
Substantial data are building that the success of cancer therapy is impacted by the commensal microbes that live in or on the human body. This has...
Supervisor: Dr Miles Andrews
Exclusive enteral nutrition (ENN)-therapy is a first line therapy for IBD with efficacy similar to, or better, than that of corticosteroids....
Supervisor: Professor Nicola Harris
The discovery of innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) has revealed their central role in maintaining intestinal homeostasis and protecting against...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Cyril Seillet
This project is suitable for Honours or Masters (modified version) and PhD students.
Background:
Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is an aggressive...
Supervisor: Dr Claudia Bruedigam
Work towards a PhD degree, that will develop a computational network model of complex biological system. You will investigate how different types of...
Supervisor: Dr Steve Mehrkanoon
Our skin contains special pigment-producing cells called melanocytes, which protect us from the sun’s UV radiation and give skin its color. Sometimes...
Supervisor: Prof Mark Shackleton, Dr Adriana Sanna
Many cancers display differences in incidence, prognosis, and treatment response between males and females. In most cases, it is not well understood...
Supervisor: Dr Miles Andrews
The ability of the adult nervous system to adapt/remodel across the lifespan (and
importantly after stroke) offers potential for brain recovery...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon Kramer
Development of protein nanopores for long sequence genome reading
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Michelle Dunstone
How do brain waves control cognitive processes? Using a combination of in vivo electrophysiology and sophisticated cognitive paradigms of working...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Nigel Jones
Current therapies for epilepsy are symptomatic, only suppressing the symptoms (seizures), but do not impact the development or progression of disease...
Supervisor: A/Prof Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD