Research Projects
Background:
Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is the most common potentially lethal Mendelian disease, affecting around 1/1000 people. It arises when...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ian Smyth
Objective: the onset of AN in women, appears to have major peaks at times of significant hormonal changes, namely the onset of menses and menopause....
Supervisor: Dr. Eva Cecilie Gregertsen
Sex differences in immune responses are well-established; women generally mount stronger immune responses to infections than men, and both autoimmune...
Supervisor: Dr Amy Winship
Antibiotics are a precious and diminishing resource. There is a desperate need to reduce or replace the use of antibiotics to treat bacterial...
Supervisor: Professor Dena Lyras
Excessive inflammation, cell death and immunopathology are characteristic features of fatal viral infections of the lung. Experts predict another...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michelle Tate
One of the major areas of interest in our laboratory is the importance of chemokines and their receptors in the regulation of immune responses and...
Supervisor: Dr Remy Robert
Throughout life exposure to a vast array of pathogens shapes our immune system to establish a repertoire of specific memory T cells that can be...
Supervisor: Dr Nicole Mifsud
This project will utilise several techniques to assess the cardiovascular system of women with a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy. This project can...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah A Marshall
Asthma affects approximately one in nine Australians and is one of the most common conditions treated in General Practice. In May 2023 a group of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Chris Barton
Opioid overdose is a major public health problem globally, with overdose incidence and mortality from overdose increasing at rapid rates in North...
Supervisor: Ms Penny Hill
Opioid overdose is a major public health problem globally, with overdose incidence and mortality from overdose increasing at rapid rates in North...
Supervisor: Dr Peter Higgs
Bats carry and transmit numerous deadly viruses to humans and harbour many unique immunological adaptations allowing them to host viruses without...
Supervisor: Dr. Joshua A. Hayward
Global Health Challenge: Cardiometabolic diseases are the leading cause of mortality worldwide, encompassing a spectrum of conditions such as...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
There is growing concern among respiratory and primary care professionals about the degree of poorly controlled asthma in the community with much of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Chris Barton
Schwann cells and melanocytes, both derived from neural crest cells, play essential yet understudied roles in skin physiology and pathology. Schwann...
Supervisor: Celine Pattaroni
Non-mammalian vertebrates have an amazing capability to regenerate their brain and spinal cord. In contrast, mammals very poorly regenerate their...
Supervisor: Dr Jan Kaslin
Use of an oral health index to detect frailty in an HIV positive population.
In the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy HIV positive...
Supervisor: Prof Ian Woolley
In this project we hope to characterise the use of antimicrobials in end-of-life care including antiretrovirals and antituberculosis medicines and...
Supervisor: Prof Ian Woolley
This project can include one or all of the following:
1) Evaluate the effectiveness of an outbreak simulation used to teach infectious disease...
Supervisor: Bethany Howard
There has been a wealth of novel technology including those devices that have been developed by. Monash University
The aim of this project will be...
Supervisor: Professor Ram Nataraja