Research Projects
Many pregnancies in the first year after a birth are unintended, and can place significant physical, social and financial strain on women and their...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Botfield
Clinical practice guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations to inform healthcare decision making and optimise patient care. They are...
Supervisor: Dr Anneliese Synnot
Incomplete reporting of systematic reviews prevents users of the report from being able to fully interpret the findings and understand the...
Supervisor: Dr Matthew Page
The early life microbiome is highly dynamic in healthy full-term infants as well as in preterm infants. As such, the microbiome is extremely...
Supervisor: Professor Marcel Nold
Bacteria secrete vesicles that traffic toxins to mitochondria of macrophages. This project will investigate how vesicle-delivered toxins kill...
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Naderer
The research of my group focuses on sleep in infants and children. This is of the utmost importance to the health of every baby and child. Sleep is...
Supervisor: Professor Rosemary Horne
**$5,000 Scholarship on Offer to Successful Honours Candidate**
Early identification and referral of patients with unmet needs to supportive...
Supervisor: Dr Liane Ioannou
Gestational diabetes (GDM) affects up to 10% of pregnancies and significantly increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life—by up to...
Supervisor: Dr Maureen Makama
Bats are a major reservoir of viruses such as Hendra virus, Ebola virus, and coronaviruses that are pathogenic in humans but not in bats. The reason...
Supervisor: Professor Gilda Tachedjian
Traditionally, the ischemic penumbra has been analyses using volumetric approach. Information on neuroanatomy and vascular anatomy are not used in...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
Are you driven by the challenge of pushing the boundaries in statistical modeling and healthcare research? We invite you to join our innovative PhD...
Supervisor: Professor Arul Earnest
The neural pathways that mediate appetite control many other functions, including mood, motivation, memory, attention and arousal, suppression of...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Lockie
RNA sequencing technologies enable the simultaneous detection of tens of thousands of genes, providing researchers with a powerful tool for...
Supervisor: Professor Wei Shi
Motorised mobility scooters (MMS) offer many mobility benefits for older Australians who no longer drive, including maintenance of independent travel...
Supervisor: Dr Linda Barclay
Globally, stroke is a leading cause of death and disability. Prevention of stroke involves the management of modifiable risk factors through...
Supervisor: Dr Lachlan Dalli
Binocular rivalry refers to the perceptual alternation that occurs every few seconds when conflicting visual stimuli are presented, one to each eye....
Supervisor: Dr Steven Miller
Clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), is observed as genetically distinct subpopulations of blood cells that have acquired somatic...
Supervisor: Robert O'Reilly
Single-cell analyses are at the leading edge of technological development for cell biology. And, transcriptomics analyses at single-cell resolution...
Supervisor: A/Prof Traude Beilharz
Exploring sex differences in the brain is important for their impact and therapeutic implications for many neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases...
Supervisor: Dr Joohyung Lee
Background: Cell-based therapeutics have made advances in recent years. One of the most clinically studied products in regenerative medicine is...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tracy Heng