Research Projects
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
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
People with traumatic brain injury (TBI) have complex health needs, not only following their injury, but throughout their life, and these are made...
Supervisor: Dr Christina Ekegren
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
The Australian Synchrotron is aiming to be a world leader at 3D x-ray imaging of breast cancer patients by performing in-vivo scans by 2021. The...
Supervisor: Dr Matthew Dimmock
Most neurological disorders, e.g. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease, etc.. are associated with the build up of toxic proteins, which can...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Sinclair
Occupational voice users rely on vocal stability and endurance to meet job expectations yet vocal fatigue is a common occurrence. This can lead to...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Debra Phyland
There is accumulating evidence that diet can play a key role in improving mental health. The most compelling evidence so far is for traditional diet...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Heidi Staudacher
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is due to bleeding in the brain and occurs in 15% of stroke. The Glasgow Coma Score is often used to monitor the...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan