Student research projects

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Research projects
Testing Novel Therapies for Neonatal Seizures
Research area: cerebral palsy
Supervisor: Dr Tamara Yawno
Suitability: Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Female reproductive Biofluid-derived extracellular vesicles for endometriosis diagnosis
Research area: Endometriosis
Supervisor: Dr Shanti Gurung
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Revisiting origin of endometriosis
Research area: endometriosis
Supervisor: Dr Shanti Gurung
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Exploring the morphometric properties and immunobiology of Human Fascia Lata as a biological graft in pelvic reconstructive surgery
Research area: pelvic organ prolapse
Supervisor: Associate Professor Shayanti Mukherjee
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Deciphering Immune Response to Bioengineered Meshes
Research area: pelvic organ prolapse
Supervisor: Associate Professor Shayanti Mukherjee
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Combating Maternal Childbirth Injury with Cellular Therapies
Research area: pelvic organ prolapse
Supervisor: Associate Professor Shayanti Mukherjee
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Next Generation 3D Cellular Bioprinted Surgical Devices for Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery
Research area: pelvic organ prolapse
Supervisor: Associate Professor Shayanti Mukherjee
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Investigating the impact of endometriosis on fertility and the uterine environment
Research area: Endometriosis
Supervisor: Dr Harriet Fitzgerald
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Extracellular vesicles in endometriosis
Research area: Endometriosis
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Tapmeier
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Understanding the Breadth of Missed Primary Aldosteronism Diagnosis in Australians with Hypertension
Research area: primary aldosteronism
Supervisor: Professor Jun Yang
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Masters
Primary Aldosteronism in Pregnancy and Beyond
Research area: primary aldosteronism
Supervisor: Professor Jun Yang
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Improving Detection and Management of Primary Aldosteronism in Australian Primary Care
Research area: primary aldosteronism
Supervisor: Professor Jun Yang
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, BMedSc(Hons)
Impact of Ethnicity on the Prevalence and Aetiology of Hypertension
Research area: hypertension
Supervisor: Professor Jun Yang
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Identification of Novel Transcriptomic Markers of PA
Research area: primary aldosteronism
Supervisor: Professor Jun Yang
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Evaluating the Cost-effectiveness of Different Strategies for the Diagnosis and Management of Primary Aldosteronism
Research area: primary aldosteronism
Supervisor: Professor Jun Yang
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Masters
Establish a National PA Registry to Enable Comprehensive Data Collection
Research area: primary aldosteronism
Supervisor: Professor Jun Yang
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Masters
The Biological Basis of Gender Identity
Research area: gender identity
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
SRY: A Risk Factor for Parkinson’s disease in Males?
Research area: Parkinson's disease
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Sex Differences in Common Diseases and Drug Responses
Research area: sexual dimorphism
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Role of Estrogen Receptor Beta in Gonadal Development and Parkinson’s Disease
Research area: Parkinson's disease
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Identifying the Genes Responsible for Intersex
Research area: sex determination
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Identifying the Genes Causing Turner Syndrome (45,XO) and Klinefelter Syndrome (47,XXY)
Research area: human genetics
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
How Are Male and Female Brains Different?
Research area: sexual dimorphism
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Characterisation of Novel Gonadal Targets of Sox9
Research area: sex determination
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Harley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Role of XIAP in Endocrine Cancer (Ovarian and Thyroid)
Research area: endocrine cancers
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Patient-Partnered Research in Granulosa Cell Tumours: Improving Follow-up, Supportive Care and Survivorship
Research area: ovarian cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu
Suitability: Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Ovarian Granulosa Cell Tumour Pathogenesis and Novel Therapeutic Targeting
Research area: ovarian cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Mass Spectrometry-Based Detection of Inhibin as a Biomarker for Granulosa Cell Tumours
Research area: ovarian cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu
Suitability: Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Immunopeptidomics and Novel Target Discovery in Ovarian Granulosa Cell Tumours
Research area: ovarian cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Genomic Drivers of Juvenile Granulosa Cell Tumours of the Ovary
Research area: ovarian cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Simon Chu
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Structure-function relationships of the mineralocorticoid receptor
Research area: receptor biology
Supervisor: Professor Peter Fuller AM
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Tissue engineering modalities for advancing women’s health
Research area: Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Supervisor: Dr Kallyanashis Paul
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Development of face perception in preterm infants (The BabyFace Study)
Research area: Preterm birth
Supervisor: Associate Professor Flora Wong
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Developing new anti-cytokine therapies for preventing perinatal brain injury
Research area: preterm birth
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Developing new preclinical models to study how inflammation alters perinatal brain development
Research area: pre term birth
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Advancing fetal surveillance for early detection of fetal distress: using AI and novel physiological sensing
Research area: birth asphyxia, preterm birth
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Targeting IL-1 for prevention of inflammation-induced brain injury in premature infants
Research area: pre term birth
Supervisor: Dr Robert Galinsky
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Investigating neurosteroids in pregnancy and their effect on perinatal outcomes: a study in spiny mice
Research area: Pregnancy
Supervisor: Dr Stacey Ellery
Suitability: Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Investigating cerebral creatine metabolism during neurodevelopment and its capacity to prevent neuropathology
Research area: Pregnancy
Supervisor: Dr Stacey Ellery
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate
Is creatine the nutritional key to boosting uterine receptivity and successful pregnancy?
Research area: Pregnancy
Supervisor: Dr Stacey Ellery
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Stem cell-derived nanotherapies in primary sclerosing cholangitis
Research area: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Supervisor: Dr Charlotte Keung
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Transition to life after birth
Research area: preterm birth
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Crossley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Reducing the risk of pulmonary hypertension in infants with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia
Research area: congenital diaphragmatic hernia, pulmonary hypertension
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Crossley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Phase-contrast neuroimaging for early detection of brain injury at birth
Research area: preterm birth
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Crossley
Suitability: Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Does surfactant improve the uniformity of lung aeration in preterm newborns?
Research area: preterm birth
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Crossley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
To better understand lung disease in Influenza and COVID-19 patients.
Research area: influenza virus, COVID-19, preterm birth
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Crossley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Identification of new treatment targets for endometriosis
Research area: endometriosis
Supervisor: Dr Fiona Cousins
Suitability: Masters
Developing 3D brain organoids to model perinatal brain injury
Research area: perinatal brain injury
Supervisor: Associate Professor Courtney McDonald
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Is neural stem cell therapy safe and feasible in a neonate?
Research area: cerebral palsy
Supervisor: Associate Professor Courtney McDonald
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Neural stem cell therapy for preterm brain injury
Research area: cerebral palsy, preterm brain injury
Supervisor: Associate Professor Courtney McDonald
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Improving functional deficits associated with fetal growth restriction
Research area: fetal growth restriction
Supervisor: Professor Suzanne Miller
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Trialling corticosteroid prodrugs to reduce lung diseases of preterm birth
Research area: preterm birth, bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Supervisor: Associate Professor Megan Wallace
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
New strategies to selectively target interferon signaling in inflammatory diseases
Research area: innate immunity, biochemistry
Supervisor: Professor Paul Hertzog
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Investigating the role of interferon epsilon in cancer
Research area: cancer, immunology
Supervisor: Dr Nicole Campbell
Suitability: Honours, Masters
Modelling Type I Interferon-driven neuroinflammation in brain cells using patient-derived iPSCs
Research area: inflammation, innate immunity
Supervisor: Dr Natália Sampaio
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Essential virus sensors: investigating RNA receptors in infection
Research area: virus, infection
Supervisor: Dr Natália Sampaio
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Structure of interferon signaling complexes by cryo-electron microscopy
Research area: innate immunity, biochemistry
Supervisor: Dr Nicole de Weerd
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Investigating the role of IFNs in treatment of viral infections
Research area: innate immunity, biochemistry
Supervisor: Dr Nicole de Weerd
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
What is an immunogenic RNA
Research area: RNA, innate immunity
Supervisor: Professor Carl Walkley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Understanding how ADAR1 mutations cause Aicardi-Goutières’s Syndrome
Research area: RNA, innate immunity
Supervisor: Professor Carl Walkley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Understanding how ADAR1 expression is regulated
Research area: RNA, innate immunity
Supervisor: Professor Carl Walkley
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Development of anti-inflammatory RNA therapeutics
Research area: neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration
Supervisor: Dr Sophia Davidson
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Masters
Structural Biology of Inflammation
Research area: Cryo-EM, Structural biology
Supervisor: Dr Wilson Wong
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Blocking harmful lung damage during acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease caused by infections
Research area: Virus, infection
Supervisor: Professor Philip Bardin
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate
Targeting TLR7 to limit auto-immunity
Research area: immunology, inflammation
Supervisor: Professor Michael Gantier
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Making better mRNA therapeutics
Research area: mRNA vaccines, innate immunity
Supervisor: Professor Michael Gantier
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Creating a new generation of adjuvants for vaccine and cancer immunotherapy
Research area: Innate immunity, adjuvants
Supervisor: Professor Michael Gantier
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Modulating gastrointestinal microbiota stimulation of the innate immune system
Research area: innate immune response, gastrointestinal microbiota
Supervisor: Professor Samuel Forster
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
High Resolution Computational Analysis of the Gastrointestinal Microbiota
Research area: computational biology, microbiota
Supervisor: Professor Samuel Forster
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Discovery of antibiotic resistance gene dispersal networks in the human gastrointestinal microbiota
Research area: Antibiotic Resistance, Microbiota
Supervisor: Professor Samuel Forster
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Characterization of microbiota composition in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease
Research area: microbiota, microbiome
Supervisor: Professor Samuel Forster
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Characterization of human microbiota diversity across the Australian community
Research area: microbiota, microbiology
Supervisor: Professor Samuel Forster
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Mechanisms of mucosal damage and repair during bacterial gut infection
Research area: microbiology, inflammation
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Hartland AM
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Intracellular bacterial pathogens and cell intrinsic immunity
Research area: microbiology, Legionella
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Hartland AM
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Role of membrane damaging effector proteins in innate immune cell-mediated tissue injury
Research area: Cell death, Cell signalling pathways
Supervisor: Associate Professor Kate Lawlor
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Mitochondrial apoptosis and infectious disease responses
Research area: Cell death, Cell signalling pathways
Supervisor: Associate Professor Kate Lawlor
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Defining regulators of cell death and inflammasome activation
Research area: Cell death, Inflammasomes
Supervisor: Associate Professor Kate Lawlor
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Innate Immunity, Cell Death, and New Targets for Fighting Severe Influenza
Research area: virus, innate immunity
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michelle Tate
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Innate Immunity in Fibrotic Lung Disease: Therapeutic Targets and Biomarker Discovery
Research area: lung, fibrosis
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michelle Tate
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
The role of the innate immune system in preventing stomach cancer during chronic Helicobacter pylori infection
Research area: innate immunity, infection
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
Suitability: Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Development of a vaccine to prevent stomach cancer using genetically modified bacterial membrane vesicles
Research area: cancer, extracellular vesicles
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Defining the role of a novel NLR protein in stomach B cell lymphoma associated with chronic Helicobacter infection
Research area: Innate immunity, infection
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Characterisation of the immunomodulatory and oncogenic properties of bacterial extracellular vesicles
Research area: Innate immunity, infection
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Novel innate immune variants causing autoinflammatory disease
Research area: Inflammation, immune sensor
Supervisor: Professor Seth Masters
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate
Transcriptional regulators as cancer targets: new models and therapeutic approaches
Research area: cancer, transcription
Supervisor: Professor Ron Firestein
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Precision Medicine for Childhood Brain Cancer
Research area: cancer, precision therapy
Supervisor: Professor Ron Firestein
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Combinatorial functional genomic screens to identify new therapeutic targets for cancers
Research area: genomics, cancer
Supervisor: Professor Ron Firestein
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Revolutionizing Breast Cancer Immunotherapy: Unveiling Novel Vaccine Targets
Research area: breast cancer immunotherapy
Supervisor: Associate Professor Pouya Faridi
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Illuminating Disease Frontiers – Advancing Biomarker Discovery with Soluble HLA Immunopeptidomics and Olink Proteomics
Research area: biomarker discovery, immunopeptidomics
Supervisor: Associate Professor Pouya Faridi
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Development of combination therapies for childhood cancers
Research area: childhood cancer, immunology
Supervisor: Associate Professor Pouya Faridi
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Immune Enigma Unveiled – Pioneering Bioinformatic Pipelines for Non-Canonical HLA-Bound Peptide Exploration
Research area: non-canonical HLA-bound peptides
Supervisor: Associate Professor Pouya Faridi
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Mitochondrial protein interactions that cause dysregulation and disease
Research area: mitochondria, biogenesis
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Is interferon β a friend or foe?
Research area: inflammation, interferon
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
How do proteins enter the mitochondria and cause dysregulation?
Research area: mitochondria, proteomics
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Developing Next Generation Photodynamic Therapy Drugs as a Cancer Treatment
Research area: photodynamic therapy
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Garama
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
The role of transcriptional regulators in maintaining lung function by controlling epithelial cell differentiation
Research area: epigenetics, transcription
Supervisor: Dr Marius Dannappel
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Identification of public antigens for off-the-shelf cancer immunotherapy
Research area: cancer, immunotherapy
Supervisor: Dr Tima Shamekhi
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Discovering novel therapies for childhood sarcoma
Research area: sarcoma, paediatric cancer
Supervisor: Dr Paul Daniel
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Preventing disease recurrence and increasing disease free survival rates for ovarian cancer patients
Research area: ovarian cancer
Supervisor: Dr Maree Bilandzic
Suitability: Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Mechanisms of ovarian cancer metastasis- characterizing molecules expressed during early cancer invasion
Research area: ovarian cancer, metastasis
Supervisor: Dr Maree Bilandzic
Suitability: Honours, BMedSc(Hons)
Impact of impaired immune function in haemoglobin disorders
Research area: thalassaemia, iron overload
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Harnessing RNA interference in gene therapy vectors for β-thalassaemia
Research area: gene therapy
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Exploring the Potential of Targeting Iron Overload and Inflammation in Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Research area: iron overload
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Epigenetic modifications of the human β-globin locus: new therapeutic targets for haemoglobin disorders
Research area: epigenetics, haemoglobin disorders
Supervisor: Dr Jim Vadolas
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters
Exploiting Epigenetic Dysregulation in SWI/SNF-Deficient Lung Adenocarcinoma
Research area: epigenetics, lung cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jason Cain
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Defining the mechanisms of chemotherapy resistance in childhood and adolescent osteosarcoma
Research area: osteosarcoma, resistance
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jason Cain
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Defining drivers of metastatic osteosarcoma
Research area: sarcoma, metastasis
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jason Cain
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours
Leveraging the innate immune system to improve lung cancer treatments
Research area: lung cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Gough
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate
Defining drivers of metastatic lung cancer
Research area: lung cancer
Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Gough
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate
Modelling childhood leukemia for the development of new and improved therapeutic approaches
Research area: leukaemia, haematology
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Genetic modelling of Acute Erythroleukaemia
Research area: erythroleukaemia, genetics
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)
Elucidating the role of EMT modulators in Acute Leukaemia
Research area: Leukaemia, genomics
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael
Suitability: PhD/Doctorate, Honours, Masters, BMedSc(Hons)