Research Projects
The spleen is an important organ of the immune system and it is often removed for the treatment of different medical conditions, to perform surgery...
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
Historically, it is well documented that infections during pregnancy increase the risk for atypical neurodevelopment in offspring such as...
Supervisor: A/Prof Rachel Hill
This partnership project with industry seeks to develop a body of work to understand the impact of footwear on young children's feet, movement...
Supervisor: Professor Cylie Williams
In Australia, waterborne communicable diseases (CD) is a recognised health concern for individuals living in remote and indigenous communities, where...
Supervisor: Dr Rebekah Henry
Caregivers of individuals with psychotic disorder are at risk of their own poor outcomes including experiencing high levels of distress. Expressed...
Supervisor: Prof Sue Cotton
This is a sub study within a larger NHMRC funded data linkage project. The aim of the sub study will be to utilise population data to understand the...
Supervisor: Professor Nadine Andrew
The Department of Diabetes at the School of Translational Medicine (STM) is a part of Monash University’s Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health...
Supervisor: Professor Melinda Coughlan
The discovery of innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) has forced immunologists to rethink how the immune system provides tissue protection. Our pioneering...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Cyril Seillet
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
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
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
For decades the immune system and the nervous system were thought to be completely cut off from one another. This was thought to be the explanation...
Supervisor: Leon Smyth
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
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
Schwann cells and melanocytes, both derived from neural crest cells, play essential yet understudied roles in skin physiology and pathology. Schwann...
Supervisor: Celine Pattaroni