Research Projects
Maternity care in Victoria is provided under a number of models of care. Model of care has recently been added to the data provided on all births in...
Supervisor: Dr Mary-Ann Davey
Mitochondria are critical to cellular function, producing cellular bioenergy, but they also have important roles in ion homeostasis, programmed cell...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) designated psilocybin as a “breakthrough therapy” in 2018 based on its efficacy in treatment-resistant...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Foldi
Developing tumour cells interact with a complex and heterogeneous ecosystem, namely the tumour microenvironment (TME), comprising mutant and wild-...
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan
This exciting project will use genetic techniques to identify mechanisms that control brain development in the Caenorhabditis elegans model. The C....
Supervisor: Professor Roger Pocock
The project will investigate how the social environment within which primary care patients manage their illness can buffer feelings of stigma and...
Supervisor: A/Prof Chris Barton
Policy decisions are influenced by many factors. These include the policy issue, policy context, organisational factors, policymaker factors and the...
Supervisor: Dr Samantha Chakraborty
Learning is essential to successfully adapt to changing environments. The process of learning uses experience to guide current and future behaviour...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
Hunger can tune our sense of smell to help find food, identify foods high in calories and affect memories associated with food. Currently, we do not...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
Our ability to recover from injury is crucial for survival. The mechanism by which plasminogen promotes wound healing is poorly understood. It is...
Supervisor: Dr Ruby Law
Group A Streptococcus hijacks host plasminogen to facilitate colonization and dissemination. This infection can lead to life-threatening infections...
Supervisor: Dr Ruby Law
Despite current diabetes management, patients with glucose-lowering therapies often deal with hypoglycemia, a condition with abnormally low blood...
Supervisor: Dr Romana Stark
To be able to stave off infections and cancers throughout life, our immune systems first need to recognise and tolerate the ~200 different cell types...
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Daley
Cancer cells can acquire stromal or developmental-like phenotypes allowing them to masquerade as other cell types, making the challenge of...
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan
Tendon pain is common and can be associated with a long symptom duration leading to frustration for individuals and clinicians alike. There has been...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Malliaras
The Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) longitudinal survey of doctors has, since 2008, sought to understand the work...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
In the developing embryo, the heart starts off as a simple straight tube that pumps blood inefficiently. As the embryo grows, the heart twists and...
Supervisor: Dr. Renee Chow
This project would be situated within the Prato International Collaborative for Improvement in Parent, Child and Family Mental Health ("The...
Supervisor: Dr Rochelle Hine
Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) is a maternally-inherited mitochondrial disorder that...
Supervisor: Mary Herbert
Everyday we're faced with a multitude of choices - some big, some small. We look at the information available to us, and make a decision. How is...
Supervisor: Dr Maureen Hagan