Research Projects
Dendritic cells (DCs) are sentinel immune cells endowed with the unique capacity to initiate antigen specific immunity and tolerance. Owning their...
Supervisor: MICHAEL CHOPIN, PHD
Acute harms experienced by young, heavy alcohol drinkers, such as verbal aggression, being sick from drinking too much or having difficulty getting...
Supervisor: Dr Nick Scott
There have been progressively increasing rates of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hospitalisation in patients with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) over the...
Supervisor: Dr Negar Naderpoor
The Centre of Research Excellence in Childhood Adversity (CRE) is a five-year research program co-funded by the National Health and Medical Research...
Supervisor: Professor Marie Yap
Important evidence gaps persist in transfusion medicine regarding patient benefit, harm, and safety. Little is known about how blood is used, the...
Supervisor: Dr Catriona Parker
This study will use an existing linked data set covering an entire geographic region, to understand the use of community based aged care services by...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Nadine Andrew
Clinical practice guidelines are systematically developed documents intended to assist health care professionals with decision-making processes in...
Supervisor: Dr Arwel Jones
The composition of the vaginal microbiota can influence the transmission of pathogens such as HIV. Women colonised with optimal vaginal bacterial...
Supervisor: Professor Gilda Tachedjian
The vagina is central to a woman’s sexuality, her sexual health, body image and sense of wellbeing. Vaginal epithelial stem cells and mesenchymal...
Supervisor: Adjunct Prof Caroline Gargett
Regular physical activity is important for maintaining physical function and quality of life in people with chronic respiratory disease. In people...
Supervisor: Dr Narelle Cox
There is a requirement for paediatric surgical specific models and simulators to be used in a laparoscopic bench trainer for the acquisition of...
Supervisor: Professor Ram Nataraja
Validation of a 3D printed and moulded high fidelity and realism simulator for paediatric laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Interstitial lung disease (or ILD) are a disabling group of chronic lung conditions associated with interstitial inflammation and fibrosis to the...
Supervisor: Dr Leona Dowman
Caloric vestibular stimulation (CVS) is a simple, safe, inexpensive bedside neuromodulation technique that has been shown to induce a wide range of...
Supervisor: Dr Steven Miller
This is a rapidly emerging field with the recent legislative changes in Victoria (and now Western Australia). There is a need to better understand...
Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
Life is a constant state of change and movement. However, until recently it has been only possible to understand the process of life as static fixed...
Supervisor: Dr Jennifer Zenker
A new frontier in biomedical research will involve watching individual proteins work in real time, in living organs. Traditionally, researchers have...
Supervisor: Professor Kieran Harvey
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) affects 1-5% of otherwise healthy children and high rates of children with certain medical comorbidities such as Down...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Gillian Nixon
Plasma cells produce antibodies making them important for protection from infectious diseases. However, sometimes antibody responses go awry and...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
Natural Killer (NK) cells are innate immune cells which play an important role in eliminating malignant and virally-infected cells but emerging...
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps