Research Projects
Atherosclerosis is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease (CVD) related deaths in subjects with diabetes. Residual increased risk of CVD...
Supervisor: Dr Waheed Khan
Inflammation-induced brain injury remains one of the main causes of disability after premature birth. There is no effective treatment. The pro-...
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Diabetic kidney disease is an important complication of diabetes and remains a huge medical burden and a major contributor of morbidity and mortality...
Supervisor: Dr Phillip Kantharidis
Leukaemia stem cells are thought to be the source of relapse following treatment with conventional therapies. New and emerging treatments are better...
Supervisor: Dr Omer Gilan
Despite the promising results of immunotherapies to treat various cancer (eg melanoma), they have been unsuccessful for the vast majority of...
Supervisor: Dr Marius Dannappel
This project aims to develop novel antisense oligonucleotides as an efficient and common therapeutic for targeting the polymyxin resistant gram-...
Supervisor: Dr Nitin Patil
Small cell lung cancer is an aggressive and highly metastatic disease that represents around 15% of all lung cancer patients. The majority of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Gough
The transcript encoding the proto-oncogene MYC is commonly overexpressed in prostate cancer (PC). MYC protein abundance is also increased in the...
Supervisor: Dr Luc Furic
Hypertension is a major cause of heart failure, heart attacks and strokes. Associated with the development of hypertension is the accumulation of...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara Kemp-Harper
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an incurable disease and a major cause of death and illness throughout the world. Whilst there has been advancement...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara Kemp-Harper
The bladder is a unique and often forgotten mucosal site. When the bladder is exposed to bacterial pathogens it sheds superficial epithelial cells to...
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Starkey
Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a most common cancer and the 4th leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Australia has one of the...
Supervisor: Dr Chunhua Wan
Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the world. Australia...
Supervisor: Dr Chunhua Wan
We are developing a platform for TCR and antibody-antigen discovery and engineering by conventional serology and T-cell assays, multiplex antigen...
Supervisor: A/Prof Vivek Naranbhai
This project explores the needs of a wide variety of healthcare students to respond to patients experiencing family violence. I collaboration with...
Supervisor: Dr Simon Sawyer
Background:
Strong climatic changes may have been the primary drivers of human evolution. Understanding how early human (hominin) foraging and...
Supervisor: A/Prof Luca Fiorenza
The quality and quantity of sleep are very closely related to variations in body temperature: falling asleep generally occurs in the period when...
Supervisor: Professor Rosemary Horne
Rationale for the study
Open surgery for the repair of inguinal hernia may lead to some adverse long-term effects upon the structures of the...
Supervisor: Dr Maurizio Pacilli