Research Projects
Bipolar disorder is a complex disorder, and as such, there can be diagnostic delays of 10 or more years, individuals have difficulties accessing...
Supervisor: Prof Sue Cotton
The risks associated with injecting drug use are determined by interactions between individual injecting behaviours and the environment' (e.g.,...
Supervisor: Professor Paul Dietze
Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers) to improve healthcare services and health and medical research is...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
Mapping the topography and the conditions of indoor/outdoor terrains is an important ongoing research area, as terrain mapping is required for safe...
Supervisor: Don Samitha Elvitigala
Most mental disorders are thought to arise from subtle disturbances in brain network wiring – i.e., disordered brain connectivity. Several projects...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Alex Fornito
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease affecting the brain and spine and has an autoimmune component. Women are affected more than men. There are...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
The human brain is a complex network comprising billions of neurons connected by trillions of synapses. Understanding how interactions unfolding on...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Alex Fornito
The anterior choroidal artery is a branch of the internal carotid artery and to a lesser extent the middle cerebral artery. It supplies the area from...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
The world health organisation recommends exclusive breastfeeding of infants
for 6 months and then continued breastfeeding until two years of age....
Supervisor: Dr Eleanor Mitchell
The increasing emergence and transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a major global health challenge. The island of Daru in Western...
Supervisor: Professor Caroline Homer
Understanding how the mind, encompassing all of our thoughts, feelings, behaviours, emotions, and experiences, emerges from the physical substrate of...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Alex Fornito
This study will examine the definition and measurement of post traumatic amnesia around the world. Post traumatic amnesia is a period of confusion,...
Supervisor: Miss Amelia Hicks
At the 2014 World Health Assembly, a commitment was made to better integrate Palliative Care into humanitarian emergencies. However, the integration...
Supervisor: Ms Katrina Recoche
Bariatric surgery is one of the most powerful health interventions available. A range of established surgical options are available, however,...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Burton
Title of project: Measuring the value of spleen preserving procedures
Short description: The spleen is an important part of the immune system,...
Supervisor: Prof Ian Woolley
Antibiotic resistance continues to emerge and intensify. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a promising alternative to current antibiotics, but...
Supervisor: Professor Mibel Aguilar
This project aims to determine how conjugative antibiotic resistance and toxin plasmids are transferred in this important pathogenic bacterium.
Supervisor: E/Prof Julian Rood
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
Age-related olfactory sensory decay, including smell loss and defective odor-discrimination, during normal and pathological aging is a prominent...
Supervisor: Dr Jie Liu
Diseases such as SLE (lupus) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are treated by glucocorticoids (steroids), because these drugs are highly effective....
Supervisor: Professor Eric Morand