Research Projects
Opiate substitution therapy is an evidence based intervention for reducing the health risks of addiction to opiates. Among people who inject drugs,...
Supervisor: Professor Margaret Hellard
During cell division, bacteria remodel their cell walls, resulting in the release of low molecular weight fragments of peptidoglycan, known as...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
The tyrosine kinase Src was the first proto-oncogene to be identified, and it is now known that Src plays an important role in several human cancers...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Daly
The Mediator complex with its catalytic subunit the Mediator kinase module, composed of CDK8/19 and other members, is multimeric complex regulating...
Supervisor: Dr Marius Dannappel
Under recently approved legislation, the state of Victoria will introduce the practice of Voluntary Assisted Dying in 2019. The legislation carefully...
Supervisor: Ms Katrina Recoche
Dysfunctional feeding behaviour encompasses energy overconsumption (obesity, binge eating) to malnutrition (unhealthy food choices, excessive dieting...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
Heme is an essential nutrient for the bacterial pathogen Haemophilus influenzae, which causes serious respiratory infections, otitis media and...
Supervisor: Dr Rhys Grinter
We are performing in-depth characterization of the microenvironment of human tumours, and discovering new mechanisms used by these cells to influence...
Supervisor: Dr Anne Fletcher
The upskilling of general surgeons in performing emergency neurosurgery in rural and remote Australia
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
The National Centre for Healthy Ageing 'Smart Ward' is a new and unique concept that aims to transform care within a Geriatric Evaluation...
Supervisor: Dr Christina Ekegren
There has been a substantial increase in the use of administrative data in health services studies. Administrative data enables studies to use large...
Supervisor: Dr Michael Di Donato
Zemiotics, or zemiology, deriving from the classical Greek word zemia, is a new body of research which focuses on social harm and loss. As Boukli and...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Charles Livingstone
Background: Paracetamol is a relatively safe & common analgesic used for many types of pain in the emergency department (ED). Current dosing...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The oocyte-secreted TGF-beta proteins, BMP15 and GDF9, are essential for the acquisition of oocyte developmental competence during folliculogenesis....
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Craig Harrison
The oocyte-secreted factors, bone morphogenetic protein 15 (BMP15) and growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9), are essential for the acquisition of...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Walton
Rapid advances in virtual reality (VR) technologies have created the means to immerse people in safe, highly realistic, personally designed,...
Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Segrave
Many rehabilitation professionals are starting to use web-based applications to create and monitor exercise programs for their patients. These...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Lisa O'Brien
The thymus is primarily responsible for generating naïve, self-tolerant T cells from hematopoietic precursors. However, deterioration of thymic...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ann Chidgey