Research Projects
Local Public Health Units (LPHUs) were established in Victoria in 2020, amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gippsland Region Public Health Unit...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Alyce Wilson
People with underlying non-communicable disease have lower tolerance and worse outcomes to infections but we don't understand why. To begin to...
Supervisor: Dr Adam Rose
Type 2 immune bias is associated with the final stages of lung development and we have recently shown that eosinophils play a key role in this...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Margaret Hibbs
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Vascular complications remain the major cause of mortality and morbidity in diabetes with increasing evidence...
Supervisor: Professor Sam El-Osta
In our multicultural society the need for interpreters in medicine is becoming more and more common. Interpreters are highly trained professionals,...
Supervisor: Dr Jennifer Neil
Overview of activities
These studies examine the safety and efficacy of interventions (nutraceutical and pharmaceutical) for the prevention and...
Supervisor: Dr Aya Mousa
Many bacterial pathogens have acquired the capacity to replicate inside human cells by avoiding cell intrinsic innate immune pathways.Pathogens such...
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Hartland
Tumours are a highly heterogeneous mix of multiple cellular subpopulations, each with their own unique molecular and biological properties. Studying...
Supervisor: Dr Renea Taylor
There is a growing interest in the role of dietary therapies in the clinical management of ulcerative colitis. Recent data have indicated the...
Supervisor: Dr Chu (CK) Yao
Disturbances in the intensity and stability of emotions are among the core features of mood and anxiety disorders. One phenotype of particular...
Supervisor: Daniel Bennett
Children learn the foundation skills of life by engaging in play activities. Children presenting with suspected developmental, physical, or...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ted Brown
The Healthy Brain Project is an ongoing study of middle-aged Australian adults (40-70 years) at risk of future dementia. This project will analyse...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara R Cardoso
This is a unique opportunity to work on one of the largest longitudinal data sets in Huntington’s Disease (HD) in an interdisciplinary research...
Supervisor: Professor Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis
Studies in T cell mediated immunity have focused on understanding the presentation of peptides by the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC), and...
Supervisor: Dr Jerome Le Nours
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a physical disability that affects movement and posture. CP is the most common physical disability in childhood, but the...
Supervisor: Dr Jan Kaslin
Project title: Investigating how nuclei communicate to coordinate gene expression
With technical advances in tissue engineering, genomics, and...
Supervisor: Dr. William Roman
Mitochondria are key players in health and disease. They are the main source of energy in eukaryotic cells, oxidizing sugars and fats to generate ATP...
Supervisor: Professor Mike Ryan
The academic research program within this laboratory is focused on defining the key molecular interactions underlying receptor recognition events...
Supervisor: Professor Jamie Rossjohn
Background:
The innate immune system senses and responds to endogenous and exogenous danger signals in order to protect the host. cGAMP synthase (...
Supervisor: Dr Dominic De Nardo
The development of diabetic complications including vascular and renal disease is enhanced in diabetic patients. However, the underlying mechanism as...
Supervisor: Dr Jay C. Jha