Research Projects
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
For women, menopause increases their risk of developing cardiovascular (CV) disease. This life-stage is associated with increased adiposity, weight...
Supervisor: Professor Maxine Bonham
While the respiratory disease induced by the original strains of COVID-19 appears to be unique for adults, it has major parallels with a mild form of...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Crossley
Project overview: Plasminogen activation plays a key role in fibrinolysis, which is the process of blood clot removal. Plasminogen is an inactive...
Supervisor: Professor Robert Medcalf
This project seeks to further improve the behavior of our prototype peptide inhibitor CHA-061 against the profibrotic effect of CDA1. CHA-061 is a...
Supervisor: Dr Zhong-Lin Chai
Despite an increase in the number of women with severe mental illness desiring families and a subsequent increase in the rate of antenatal...
Supervisor: Professor Jayashri Kulkarni
Single cell technologies are being rapidly adopted and accordingly, there is a high demand for intuitive tools and software that help with the...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
The location of brain metastases and tumor in the brain may yield clue to how tumors are formed. Our group has performed extensive work on brain...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan