Description
People with underlying non-communicable disease have lower tolerance and worse outcomes to infections but we don't understand why. To begin to find way to treat these populations better, we will interrogate this relationship.
We will use dietary manipulations as well as models of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease combined with infection models and examine markers of tissue damage homeostasis, immune function and metabolism to deconvolute this relationship.
Essential criteria:
Minimum entry requirements can be found here: https://www.monash.edu/admissions/entry-requirements/minimum
Keywords
immunometabolism, obesity, infection, tissue homeostasis
School
Biomedicine Discovery Institute (School of Biomedical Sciences) » Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Available options
Masters by research
Honours
Time commitment
Full-time
Physical location
Monash Clayton Campus