Research Projects
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
Stroke is due to clot blocking a vessel in the brain. Recent clot retrieval trials have shown that this treatment is very effective and reduce...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
The adaptive arm of immune system uses lymphocytes to generate antibody and memory responses to challenges throughout life. Three lineages of...
Supervisor: Dr Martin Davey
Natural killer (NK) cells are effector lymphocytes of the innate immune system that are known for their ability to kill transformed and virus-...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
Transcriptional regulators play a key role in activating oncogenic pathways that impinge on tumour growth, invasion and mestasasis. We study the role...
Supervisor: Dr Ron Firestein
Young adults with diabetes have higher glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) compared to the broader population of adults with diabetes and higher incidence...
Supervisor: Dr. Rebecca Goldstein
An opportunity exists to undertake a PhD at the Healthy Working Lives Research Group within the Monash University School of Public Health and...
Supervisor: Dr Shannon Gray
Inflammatory Bowel Disease is an incurable disease that affects approximately 1 in 200 young Australians, with increasing incidence worldwide. Up to...
Supervisor: A/Prof Edward Giles
The transition to life after birth is one of the greatest physiological challenges that humans face. At birth, the airways are cleared of liquid, to...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Crossley
Direct clinical relevance: medium/low. Hands-on learning opportunities: Culture of primary human blood cells and cell lines, protein detection by...
Supervisor: Prof Claudia Nold