Research Projects
Dementia poses a significant challenge globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where resources for care are limited. The World...
Supervisor: Dr Angel Lee
PCOS is a common condition affecting ~13% of reproductive-aged women. Lifestyle management is a key initial first-line therapy for PCOS according to...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Lisa Moran
Children who experience excessive daytime sleepiness are referred to the Melbourne Children's Sleep Centre for assessment of idiopathic...
Supervisor: Professor Rosemary Horne
The lens provided by the concept of the Commercial Determinants of Health (CDoH) is a relatively new way to understand the processes associated with...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Charles Livingstone
Heart valve disease is a major cause of death and disability worldwide. There are currently no pharmacological treatments, and individuals with...
Supervisor: Dr. Renee Chow
Sepsis is a global, life-threatening condition defined as multiple-organ damage or failure from uncontrolled immune responses against infection....
Supervisor: Associate Professor Connie Wong
Our work is focussed on understanding the roles and functions of A-to-I RNA editing by the ADAR family of proteins. ADAR proteins can bind to RNA and...
Supervisor: Carl Walkley
Mutations in ADAR1 are one cause of Aicardi-Goutières’s Syndrome (AGS). AGS is a rare inherited disease that affects the brain and is a form of type...
Supervisor: Carl Walkley
In the developing embryo, the heart begins as a simple straight tube that pumps blood inefficiently. As the embryo grows, the heart twists and grows...
Supervisor: Dr. Renee Chow
Australian women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds are disproportionately less likely than their Australian-born peers to...
Supervisor: Dr Noushin Arefadib
Pulmonary hypertension is a disease of high blood pressure in the lungs, which leads to increased right ventricular afterload, remodelling and...
Supervisor: Dr Kristen Bubb
The Mpox virus is endemic in West and Central African countries. In 2022, the WHO declared Mpox a global health emergency as infections have spread...
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
The Mpox virus is endemic in West and Central African countries. In 2022, the WHO declared Mpox a global health emergency as infections have spread...
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
The project will use live cell imaging, molecular cell biology and infection models to understand how Candida albicans evades innate immune...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ana Traven
Both osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease share common risk factors, yet both remain undiagnosed until a major life-threatening event occurs, e.g...
Supervisor: Dr Ayse Zengin
Mercy Pregnancy Emotional Wellbeing Study is an ongoing pregnancy cohort study with 887 women and their children. This study is designed around...
Supervisor: Professor Megan Galbally
Complex I of the mitochondrial respiratory chain is a huge machine containing 44 different subunits. Following up on recent studies, (Formosa et al...
Supervisor: Dr Luke Formosa
A series of projects is embedded in our existing prospective cohort study (known as VMAX) of 745 Victorians living in metropolitan and rural areas...
Supervisor: Professor Paul Dietze
Mitochondria more than just “the powerhouse of the cell”. They are fascinating, highly dynamic organelles that carry out an array of cellular...
Supervisor: Dr Kate McArthur
The biomarker landscape for multiple myeloma is rapidly evolving, and new discoveries mean that soon additional markers may be available to detect...
Supervisor: Dr Catriona Parker