Medicine at St Vincent's Hospital
Biomedical Translational Research Group: Developing Therapies for Cardiovascular Disease
Our group adopts a “bench to bedside” approach to research, where we evaluate the efficacy of novel therapies on structural and functional aspects of heart, kidney, lung, liver and eye disease using robust in vivo animal models that display key aspects of human disease.
Academic site: Medicine @ St Vincent's Hospital
Group Leader: Professor Darren Kelly
Clinical Epilepsy Epidemiology
Our research group is focused on clinical epilepsy epidemiology, electrophysiology and co-morbidity.
Academic site: Medicine @ St Vincent's Hospital
Group Leader: Assoc. Professor Wendyl D'Souza
Clinical Neurosciences
The Clinical Neurosciences group sustains a large research focus principally centred on epilepsy modelling, clinical and animal studies of epilepsy and other neurological disorders, epidemiological studies of epilepsy and other neurological disorders.
Academic site: Medicine @ St Vincent's Hospital
Group Leader: Professor Mark Cook
Diabetic Retinopathy and Health Informatics Collaboratory
The Diabetic Retinopathy and Health Informatics Collaboratory is a group of academic, clinical and technical staff brought together to address the multidisciplinary challenges associated with chronic disease diagnosis and management.
Academic site: Medicine @ St Vincent's Hospital
Group Leader: Dr Laima Brazionis
Health Outcomes
The Health Outcomes Research Group seeks to understand the outcomes and end results of medical care – the effect of the health care process on the health and well-being of patients and populations.
Academic site: Medicine @ St Vincent's Hospital
Group Leader: Associate Professor Vijaya Sundararajan
Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases
The Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases group seeks to understand the role of the innate immune system in a variety of infectious diseases, including viral hepatitis, septic shock and mycobacterial infections; so that we can better dissect the complex interactions between the host and the innate immune system.
Academic site: Medicine @ St Vincent's Hospital
Group Leader: Professor Kumar Visvanathan
Neural Engineering and Brain Dynamics
The Neural Engineering and Brain Dynamics aspects of the research group are unified under the common goal of improving the lives of people who have uncontrolled epileptic seizures. The theory of Brain Dynamics provides a description of the biophysics of the brain, which can be utilised by Neural Engineering methods in clinical devices.
Academic site: Medicine @ St Vincent's Hospital
Group Leaders: Dr Dean Freestone and Dr Andre Peterson
- ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies
- Control of prosthetic limbs from decoded brain signals
- EEG/MEG network measures as a biomarker in pre-surgical planning for epilepsy patients
- Epileptic Seizure Forecasting
- Neural modelling of epileptic dynamics
- Single pulse electrical stimulation for epilepsy monitoring and tuning of DBS therapy
- Towards a patient-specific examination of epileptogenesis
Neurotrauma and Stroke
Our focus is to identify new targets in the brain for promoting brain repair as well as develop new treatment strategies that facilitate functional recovery. In particular current projects centre on the role of the neurovascular unit in brain rescue and include drug therapies to target astrogliosis and epidural electrical stimulation to awaken and reconnect cells for restored nerve transmission.
Academic site: Medicine @ St Vincent's Hospital
Group Leader: Dr Carli Roulston
Palliative Medicine Research Group
Our team brings together clinicians, researchers and allied health professionals, under the leadership of the VCCC Chair of Palliative Medicine. We seek to effect positive and systemic change in palliative care practice and accelerate the translation of research-generated knowledge into improved patient care nationally and internationally.
Academic site: Medicine @ St Vincent's Hospital
Group Leader: Professor Jennifer Philip
Translational Cardiovascular Biology
Our lab focuses on bench to bedside research focused on the link between obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Academic site: Medicine @ St Vincent's Hospital
Group Leader: Associate Professor Andrew Wilson