Research Projects
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
One of primary debilitating conditions in women’s health is pelvic Organ prolapse (POP), particularly affecting 50% of post-menopausal women, and...
Supervisor: Dr Kallyanashis Paul
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
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 depressive symptoms. The most compelling evidence so far is for traditional...
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
TRANSFORM is an innovative, new, 5 year venture aiming to find effective, and sustainable pathways to health care integration. It brings together...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
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