Research Projects
Infertility has been identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a growing global disease often neglected by the individual and treated as...
Supervisor: Dr Faizul Jaafar
Glioblastoma (GBM) constitutes the majority of all malignant adult brain tumors with five-year survival rates lower than 10% and a median survival of...
Supervisor: Alfarizal Kamarudin
Conventional chemotherapeutic agent, temozolomide (TMZ), for Glioblastoma (GBM) often displays high chemoresistance with various side effects....
Supervisor: Alfarizal Kamarudin
Most students enter university to enhance their job prospects, yet many graduates find securing employment after their degree challenging....
Supervisor: Bethany Howard
The Bachelor of Biomedical science and Bachelor Science degree programs are considered non-vocational with a diverse range of graduate or employment...
Supervisor: Professor Julia Choate
RESEARCH PROJECT BACKGROUND:
The endocrine system controls cell-cell communication and coordinates almost all our daily activities. Abnormalities in...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Timothy Cole
The project aims to examine engaging with residents and families to explore the complexities of communicating about medicines that affect the mind,...
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Manias
Pregnancy is a unique opportunity to optimise health outcomes for both mother and baby, not only for the duration of pregnancy but also across their...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kirsten Palmer
Enhancing biochemical approaches to enable novel membrane protein structure determination by cryo-EM
MULTIPLE SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE
4-year Doctoral Program; Stipends: $33,413/year; Conference support: $5,000; Industry placement; Advanced...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Sexton
Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects 2.1 million adults and is a chronic disorder of the central nervous system, being the most frequent neurological...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Dawson Kidgell
In 2022, WHO published new recommendations on postnatal care for positive postnatal experience. These recommendations emphasise that women should...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel
Randomised controlled trials are the most important way in which evidence is collected for new therapies, re-purposed therapies or management...
Supervisor: A/Prof Atul Malhotra
Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers) to improve healthcare services and health and medical research is...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative condition affecting the central nervous system. There are over 33,000...
Supervisor: Dr. Nevin John
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) affects a striking 11-13% of Australian reproductive aged women and is a major public health concern. The prevalence...
Supervisor: Dr Anju Joham
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has resulted in a devastating disease pandemic responsible for in excess of 6...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anthony Dear
Haemoglobin disorders, such as sickle cell disease and β-thalassaemia are the result of mutations in the adult β-globin gene. When these disorders...
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
Vaccines exploit the ability of the immune system to provide heightened, tailored responses to pathogens if the host has been infected prior – this...
Supervisor: Professor Kim Good-Jacobson
We wish to understand the detailed molecular events that underlie the recruitment and regulation of chromatin-modifying complexes by their co‐factor...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Chen Davidovich
We are interested in delineating the molecular pathways that control immune cell function during infection and inflammation. Our group is focused on...
Supervisor: Professor Colby Zaph