Research Projects
Skin-related (dermatological) conditions are common among military personnel. In Wave 2 (2011-2012) of the Australian Gulf War Veterans’ Health Study...
Supervisor: Dr StellaMay Gwini
Lung cancer is the leading cancer burden and the leading contributor to lung cancer mortality.
The use of a Clinical Quality Registry (CQR) is an...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Robert Stirling
Stem cell-based therapies are emerging as novel and innovative approaches to treat neurological diseases. The successful development of these...
Supervisor: Dr Ana Antonic-Baker
Recently, renal denervation (removing the renal nerves) has been shown to be an effective and safe treatment for human resistant hypertension and is...
Supervisor: Professor Katherine Denton
Project summary:
The health benefits associated with consumption of the Mediterranean diet are widely recognised, and multiple clinical trials have...
Supervisor: Dr Tammie Choi
We will be using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms to understand how different part of the brain are connected to each other to...
Supervisor: Dr. Adeel Razi
Air quality monitoring stations are limited in the world. It is impossible to assess the health impacts of air pollution in some areas without air...
Supervisor: Professor Yuming Guo
Are you passionate about leveraging machine learning to revolutionize healthcare? Join our cutting-edge PhD project focused on applying advanced...
Supervisor: Professor Arul Earnest
The current standard of care for epilepsy is to commence treatment with a single antiseizure medication (ASM) and if it fails, try successive drug...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
The aim of this project is to integrate clinical information on brain tumor and genomic characterization data of the biopsied material. The student...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Despite the huge success of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, unwanted inflammation due to activation of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Michael Gantier
Protective immunity to malaria is mediated by antibodies that block parasite growth. Antibody development occurs within the germinal centres, and...
Supervisor: A/Prof Michelle Boyle
Seventy million people have epilepsy with 34–76 per 100,000 developing the condition every year. To formulate rational treatment plans, it is...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Kwan
Background: Obesity and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) are two of the most significant health care problems facing our community – they are...
Supervisor: Professor Wendy Brown
The discovery of a hepatitis C (HCV) treatment has the potential to lead to disease elimination, with smaller countries such as Iceland likely to be...
Supervisor: Dr Nick Scott
Our laboratory aims to create new knowledge in host-pathogen interactions driven by intracellular bacterial pathogens. Our research team has projects...
Supervisor: Professor Hayley Newton
Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers) to improve healthcare services and health and medical research is...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful tool to non-invasively map the structure and function of the brain in living humans. However, its...
Supervisor: Dr James Pang
This project offers the opportunity for students to examine contacts with police in a large cohort of individuals who were treated for a first...
Supervisor: Prof Sue Cotton
Stroke affecting the visual pathway cause considerable disability due to impairment of visual field and driving. Previous study have suggested that...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan