Research Projects
Individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI; e.g., traumatic brain injury, stroke) face a 2-4 times greater risk of attempting and dying by suicide...
Supervisor: Dr Jai Carmichael
Trauma and uncontrolled bleeding is a major cause of morbidity worldwide. We have developed and structurally characterized potent monoclonal...
Supervisor: Professor James Whisstock
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium that is one of the most common pathogens of people with cystic fibrosis. This organism causes...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce
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Optimal pain management is a critical but often unmet need for people with...
Supervisor: Dr Liane Ioannou
Bike riding has the potential to lead to huge gains in population health (such as through increased physical activity) and environmental health....
Supervisor: Dr Ben Beck
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease, with differences not only among different patients, but even amongst the bulk of cells within tumors in individual...
Supervisor: Dr Mark Shackleton
The majority of cancers initially respond very well to standard of care chemotherapeutics but invariably become resistant leading to cancer relapse...
Supervisor: Dr Ron Firestein
Individuals with Prader Willi Syndrome (PWS) have impairments in ventilatory control and are predisposed toward sleep disordered breathing due to a...
Supervisor: Professor Rosemary Horne
One of the most common questions parents of children with minimal spoken language ask is “will my child talk?”. Currently clinicians are not able to...
Supervisor: Dr Amanda Brignell
This PhD project is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Partnership grant in collaboration with Orygen (Centre for...
Supervisor: Prof Sue Cotton
Dementia poses a significant challenge globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where resources for care are limited. The World...
Supervisor: Dr Angel Lee
PCOS is a common condition affecting ~13% of reproductive-aged women. Lifestyle management is a key initial first-line therapy for PCOS according to...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Lisa Moran
Children who experience excessive daytime sleepiness are referred to the Melbourne Children's Sleep Centre for assessment of idiopathic...
Supervisor: Professor Rosemary Horne
Australian women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds are disproportionately less likely than their Australian-born peers to...
Supervisor: Dr Noushin Arefadib
Pulmonary hypertension is a disease of high blood pressure in the lungs, which leads to increased right ventricular afterload, remodelling and...
Supervisor: Dr Kristen Bubb
The Mpox virus is endemic in West and Central African countries. In 2022, the WHO declared Mpox a global health emergency as infections have spread...
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
The Mpox virus is endemic in West and Central African countries. In 2022, the WHO declared Mpox a global health emergency as infections have spread...
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
The project will use live cell imaging, molecular cell biology and infection models to understand how Candida albicans evades innate immune...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ana Traven
Both osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease share common risk factors, yet both remain undiagnosed until a major life-threatening event occurs, e.g...
Supervisor: Dr Ayse Zengin