Research Projects
Food security exists when individuals have regular and reliable access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food, which meets their dietary needs and...
Supervisor: Dr Sue Kleve
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small, nanosized vesicles produced by most cells and readily found in bodily fluids which carry surface markers and...
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Tapmeier
Clinical practise around the management of nutrition for extremely preterm infants may vary across NICUs. This may include the use of probiotic...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
Extracellular vesicles are nanoparticles that contain bioactive cargo and provide crucial information about the donor cell's identity and...
Supervisor: Dr Shanti Gurung
Monochorionic twin pregnancies are at significantly higher risks of pregnancy complications when compared to dichorionic twin pregnancies or...
Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Lorber Rolnik
This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary research team that is changing the face of autoimmune disease management, making ground-...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Jones
The Functional Annotation of Tumor Variants of Unknown Significance (VUS) using CRISPR project aims to elucidate the functional significance of...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Sun
Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and the third leading cause of cancer-related death, with a five year overall survival of 33...
Supervisor: Dr Geraldine Ooi
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Medical imaging technologies are advancing rapidly, especially with the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based techniques. AI has...
Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Uribe
Background: Acute Erythroleukemia (AEL) is an aggressive and poor outcome subtype of AML that is largely resistant to standard treatments. Unlike...
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael
Invasive lobular breast cancer is a specific histological type of breast cancer that makes up about 10% of all invasive breast cancer diagnoses. It...
Supervisor: Professor Melissa Southey
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with its burden disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)....
Supervisor: Dr Lachlan Dalli
In this project, we are studying the impact of common antibiotics on the microbiome, the ecosystem of bacteria that live in our gastrointestinal...
Supervisor: A/Prof. Ben Rogers
The β-haemoglobin disorders such as β thalassaemia, haemoglobin E (HbE), and sickle cell disease (SCD) are among the most prevalent inherited...
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
To create a model for a HPEDs that will lead the way in the reduction of chronic disease in Victoria through the use of new digital technologies,...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The problem: Picture this… Cheng is an 83-year-old woman living with dementia in a residential aged care facility (RACF), she has frequent falls....
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The currently identified genetic prostate cancer risk factors account for less than 40% of the familial risk for the disease. Very few of these...
Supervisor: Professor Melissa Southey
Known genetic risk factors for prostate cancer include rare genetic variants in prostate cancer predisposition genes that are associated with high to...
Supervisor: Professor Melissa Southey