Medical Projects by Theme

Ageing

Groups / Projects	Research Lead	Dept / Centre
Altered functional and phenotypic characteristics following treatment of age-related macular degeneration	Dr Ben J. Gu	Medicine and Radiology
Alzheimer’s diseases modelling with human cerebral organoids	Associate Professor Alice Pebay	Surgery
Anxiety and neurodegeneration in preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease	Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Bioenergetics in the optic nerve	Dr Peter van Wijngaarden	Surgery
Can machine learning improve the diagnostic prediction of imaging measures in dementia and epilepsy?	Dr Vijay Venkatraman	Medicine and Radiology
Characteristics associated with drug-related hospital admissions in older patients	Professor Elizabeth Manias	Medicine and Radiology
Characterization of Osteosarcopenia in Older Persons: A Bench to Bedside Approach Characterization of Osteosarcopenia in Older Persons: A Bench to Bedside Approach	Dr David Scott	Medicine and Radiology
Cognitive impairment and its interference with Activities of Daily Living	Dr Julian Sacre	Medicine and Radiology
COMPUFALLS: Computer-Based System to Early Detect Risk of Falling in Older People: An International Collaborative Study	Professor Gustavo Duque	Medicine and Radiology
Diagnostic accuracy of a screening tool to identify patients at risk of sarcopenia	Dr Esmee M. Reijnierse	Medicine and Radiology
Do individuals age in the same way? Inter- and intra-individual pattern of diseases accumulation	Prof Andrea Maier	Medicine and Radiology
Early detection of cognitive decline and disease	Dr Stephen Campbell	Medicine and Radiology
EMPOWER the power of human muscle	Prof. Kwang Lim	Medicine and Radiology
Enabling treatment trials of atrophic age-related macular degeneration	Dr Zhichao Wu	Surgery
Examining neuropsychological trajectories using data collected from a longitudinal study	Alex Gorelik	Medicine and Radiology
Exploiting IPads for vision self-monitoring in age-related macular degeneration	Dr Zhichao Wu	Surgery
Gait, Cognition and Decline (The GOOD Project)	Professor Gustavo Duque	Medicine and Radiology
Goal-directed cognitive rehabilitation for self-management in older diabetic adults	Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs	Medicine and Radiology
Identification of protective pathways in mitochondrial disease: what protects retinal cells from Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy?	Dr Isabel Lopez Sanchez	Surgery
In Vivo Tibiofemoral Biomechanics in Healthy Adults During Functional Activity	Dr Hans Gray	Surgery
INDIGO Study: physical activity and goal-setting intervention for sedentary older adults at risk of cognitive decline	Principal Researcher Professor Nicola Lautenschlager (Melbourne Site)	Psychiatry
Investigating the effects of GM-CSF and M-CSF derived human macrophages on phagocytosing P. falciparum infected erythrocytes and cytokine production	Dr Adrian Achuthan	Medicine and Radiology
Iron and Fatigue	Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Life-long exposures for Healthy Ageing	Alex Gorelik	Medicine and Radiology
Lifestyle Factors for Healthy Ageing	Prof Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Meta-cognition training in older adults with subjective cognitive decline	Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs	Psychiatry
Methodological quality and evidence synthesis in cognitive interventions for the prevention of dementia in older adults	Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs Dr Amit Lampit	Psychiatry
Mid-Thigh Bone and Muscle Mass Measurements as an Assessment Tool for Diagnosis of Osteoporosis/penia, Sarcopenia and Osteosarcopenia: A Longitudinal Validation Study	Dr Ebrahim Bani Hassan	Medicine and Radiology
Multimedia (MyStay) Intervention for managing patient experience (MIME) following total hip replacement surgery: a cluster randomised trial.	Ms Jo McDonall	Surgery
Multimorbidity and ageing women	Alex Gorelik	Medicine and Radiology
Neuroprotective electrical stimulation in retinal and optical nerve disease	Dr Carla Abbott A/Prof Chi Luu	Surgery
Novel biological marker combinations to determine physical biological age	Dr Camilla Tuttle	Medicine and Radiology
Novel senescence markers predicting chemotherapy related toxicity and treatment outcome in older lung cancer patients	Dr Claire Maddison	Medicine and Radiology
Novel Ways of Detecting and Managing Chronic Diseases (Chronic Kidney Disease/ Diabetes/Cardiovascular Disease) in Primary Care	Associate Professor Craig Nelson	Medicine and Radiology
Nutritional needs of hospitalized older patients admitted to geriatric rehabilitation wards	Dr Esmee M. Reijnierse	Medicine and Radiology
Olfactory-focused cognitive training	Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs	Psychiatry
Osteosarcopenia in Older Adults Attending a Fracture Liaison Service	Dr David Scott	Medicine and Radiology
Palliative Medicine Research Group	Group Leader Professor Jennifer Philip	Medicine and Radiology
Physical Activities for Healthy Ageing	Prof Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Predicting Disability and Frailty in Older Persons: The Western Osteosarcopenia and Frailty (WOSF) Study	Dr Lakshman Singh	Medicine and Radiology
Pressure injuries and functional outcomes in older inpatients	Dr Dr Rebecca Iseli	Medicine and Radiology
Promoting Independence though quality dementia care at home (the PITCH project).	Dr Anita Goh Associate Professor Briony Dow	Psychiatry
RAndomised trial to imProve the quality of lIfe of people with Dementia (RAPID)	Principal Researcher rofessor Nicola Lautenschlager (Melbourne Site)	Psychiatry
Reducing the dementia risk of people with depression and cognitive impairment in residential aged care	Dr Anita Goh Dr Eleanor Curran	Psychiatry
Refining the comprehensive geriatric assessment	Prof. Kwang Lim	Medicine and Radiology
Research at Epworth	Professor Richard de Steiger
Risk factors for Violence in Australian Women – A twenty year follow up Study	Dr Melissa Coulson	Medicine and Radiology
Satellite imaging technology to detect the early signs of glaucoma and Alzheimer’s disease in the retina	Dr Peter van Wijngaarden	Surgery
Search early diagnosis biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease	Dr Ben J Gu	Medicine and Radiology
Senescence as a measure of morbidity	Dr Camilla Tuttle	Medicine and Radiology
Simultaneous physical and cognitive exercise in older adults	Dr Amit Lampit Dr Amit Lampit	Psychiatry
Social and physical activities in ageing women	Dr Melissa Coulson	Medicine and Radiology
Synovial Knee Arthritis Research (SKAR)	Professor John Hamilton	Surgery
Taking the "guesswork" out of glaucoma clinical management with novel imaging	Dr Zhichao Wu	Surgery
Test-retest and practice effects in common cognitive measures in older adults with and without cognitive impairment	Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs	Medicine and Radiology
The blood pressure drop makes you fall	Dr. Julian Sacre	Medicine and Radiology
The Correlation between Knee Effusions and Clinical Presentation in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis	Associate Professor Keith Lim	Medicine and Radiology
The effect of anxiety on cardiovascular risk in healthy ageing women	Prof Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
The Evaluation of a Decision Aid for Women Considering Non-medical Egg Freezing	Project Lead Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
The intra-individual rate of ageing	Prof. Andrea Maier	Medicine and Radiology
The Stand Up & Go Study: Physical activity and sitting time reduction program for older community members	Principal Researcher Professor Nicola Lautenschlager (Melbourne Site)	Psychiatry
Towards a biological geriatric assessment	Dr. Camilla Tuttle	Medicine and Radiology
Understanding the Role of Vitamin D in Muscle Adaptation	Professor Alan Hayes	Medicine and Radiology
Unravelling the genetic cause of Premature Ovarian Insufficiency	Doctor Elena Tucker Professor Andrew Sinclair	Paediatrics
Using pluripotent stem cells to model AMD	A/Prof Alice Pebay	Surgery
Using pupillary light responses to enable early glaucoma detection	Dr Zhichao Wu	Surgery
Using Wearable Activity Trackers to Monitor Physical Activity in Older Adults Undergoing Exercise Interventions for Falls	Dr David Scott	Medicine and Radiology
Virtual reality-based cognitive training in older adults with mild cognitive impairment	Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs Mr Ken Clarke	Psychiatry
Vitamin D deficiency and balance	Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology

Cancer in Medicine

Groups / Projects	Research Lead	Dept / Centre
A mouse model of duodenal atresia	Project Leader Associate Professor Warrick Teague	Paediatrics
A study of the extracellular vesicles in glioblastoma tissue	Dr Laura Vella	Medicine and Radiology
A5 SDHB Genomics Study	Head of Laboratory Dr Richard Tothill	Clinical Pathology
Academic Department of Surgery, Western Health	Associate Professor Justin Yeung	Surgery
ACRF Translational Research Laboratory	Group Leader Professor David S Ritchie	Medicine and Radiology
ADAR1 and RNA editng	Dr Alistair Chalk	Medicine and Radiology
Advanced Limb Reconstruction	Head of Department of Surgery, St. Vincent's Hospital, Professor Peter Choong	Surgery
An anti-calcitonin receptor (CTR) antibody for the detection of programmed cell death: the role of CTR in a novel adaptive response in a pre-apoptotic mechanism	Dr Peter Wookey	Medicine and Radiology
Analysing the mutations in calcitonin receptor (CTR) mRNA transcripts, and identifying the isoforms and polymorphisms of CTR expressed in high grade glioma cell lines from glioblastoma	Dr Peter Wookey	Medicine and Radiology
Analysis of circulating microRNAs in patient serum as a non-invasive biomarker platform	Project Lead Dr Rachel Koldej	Medicine and Radiology
Biomarkers of human papillomavirus-related cancers	Dr Alyssa Cornall	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Boussioutas Laboratory: Gastrointestinal Cancer	Group Leader Associate Professor Alex Boussioutas	Medicine and Radiology
Buchanan laboratory: Oncogenomics (colorectal cancer)	Head of Laboratory Associate Professor Daniel Buchanan	Clinical Pathology
Building a Tumourigenesis Atlas for Lynch syndrome related-colorectal cancer	A/Prof Daniel Buchanan	Clinical Pathology
Cancer Biology Research Group	Professor Graham Baldwin	Surgery
Cancer drug discovery by inhibition of a DNA repair pathway with Crispr/Cas9 gene editing and biochemistry	Dr Wayne Crismani	Medicine and Radiology
Cancer in Primary Care	Research Group Leader Professor Jon Emery	General Practice
Cancer Signalling Research Laboratory	Dr Hong-Jian Zhu	Surgery
Cardiovascular and Tumourivascular Laboratory	Group Leader Dr Peter J Wookey	Medicine and Radiology
Cell death regulation in B cell immunity and B cell lymphona	A/Prof Jorg Heierhorst	Medicine and Radiology
Characterising the seeds of breast cancer metastasis	Dr Delphine Merino	Medicine and Radiology
Characterizing metastatic heterogeneity in colorectal cancer	A/Prof Frederic Hollande	Clinical Pathology
CHEST Australia Trial: An Intervention to Reduce Time-to-Consult with Symptoms of Lung Cancer	Project Leader Professor Jon Emery, Herman Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research	General Practice
Circulating Biomarkers in Liver Malignancy	Professor Christopher Christophi	Surgery
Circulating nucleic acid biomarkers for tumour surveilance in Merkel cell carcinoma	Dr Richard Tothill	Clinical Pathology
CRISP-DNA: The feasibility of assessing bowel cancer risk using genomic testing to target screening in general practice	Herman Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research Professor Jon Emery	General Practice
Defining the role of p53 in cancer immunotherapy	Prof Ygal Haupt	Medicine and Radiology
Defining the Role of Transcriptional Stress Pathways in Cancer Cell Resistance Towards Anti-Cancer Therapeutics	A/Prof John Price	Medicine and Radiology
Determine the key signalling pathways/ genes that regulate phenotype changes in prostate cancer in response to androgen deprivation therapy.	Dr Niall Corcoran	Surgery
Developing a human pre-cancer atlas of colonic polyps for predicting future risk of colorectal cancer or polyps	A/Prof Daniel Buchanan	Clinical Pathology
Developing a multifactorial classification approach for germline variants in the colorectal cancer susceptibility genes POLE and POLD1	A/Prof Daniel Buchanan Dr Khalid Mahmood	Clinical Pathology
Developing clinical genomic methods for cancer of unknown primary	Head of Laboratory Dr Richard Tothill	Clinical Pathology
Development and validation of triage guidelines for colonoscopy and gastroscopy		General Practice
Dissecting the relevance of a novel molecular pathway in stem cells and immunodeficiencies	Dr Mark Chong	Medicine and Radiology
Epigenetic regulators of endometrial cancer as new treatment targets to halt metastatic spread.	Professor Peter Rogers Professor Eva Dimitriadis	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Examining A New Drug Target For Preventing Stomach Cancer	Professor Philip Sutton	Paediatrics
Experiences and priorities of women living with ovarian cancer	Dr Jennifer Marino Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Exploration of novel approaches to anti-cancer treatment: manipulation of mutant p53	Prof Ygal Haupt	Medicine and Radiology
Fertility After Cancer Predictor (FoRECAsT) Study	Project Lead Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Fertility preservation in children and teenagers with cancer	Senior Lecturer Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Fertility preservation in children with cancer	Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Genomic and Immune cell profiling of sebaceous skin lesions for optimising identification of patients with Lynch syndrome	A/Prof Daniel Buchanan Prof Ingrid Winship	Clinical Pathology
Gynaecology Research Centre	Professor Women's Health Research Professor Peter Rogers	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Harnessing novel immunotherapies to restore immunity in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia	Group Leader Professor David Ritchie	Medicine and Radiology
Hearing protection in surgery	Dr Hayden Eastwood Prof Stephen O’Leary	Surgery
Hickey Research Group		Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Hollande laboratory: Tumour Heterogeneity in Metastatic Cancer	Head of Laboratory Associate Professor Fred Hollande	Clinical Pathology
Honorary Appointments’ Research Projects		Surgery
Host responses to therapy and the tumour microenvironment contribute to the development of tumour resistance	Professor Christopher Christophi	Surgery
Identification and Characterisation of Molecular Mediators of Cancer Metastasis	A/ Professor John Price	Medicine and Radiology
Identification of biomarkers to novel therapies in Myelodysplasia	Professor David S Ritchie	Medicine and Radiology
Identification of osteoblast lineage cells by fluorescence-activated cell sorting	Dr Alistair Chalk	Medicine and Radiology
Identifying and characterising Lynch syndrome within the population	Head of Laboratory Dr Daniel Buchanan	Clinical Pathology
Identifying better therapies for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes	Meaghan Wall	Medicine and Radiology
Identifying biomarkers of risk and poor prognosis in CRC	Head of Laboratory Dr Daniel Buchanan	Clinical Pathology
Identifying novel genetic risk factors for colorectal cancer	Head of Laboratory Dr Daniel Buchanan	Clinical Pathology
Improving Cancer Outcomes for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) Communities	Project Leader, Prof Jon Emery	General Practice
Improving therapy in breast cancer associated with an inherited risk	Dr Andrew Deans	Medicine and Radiology
Informal Communities in Cancer Treatment	Project Lead Dr Matt Grant	Medicine and Radiology
Inter and Intra-tumour heterogeneity in metastatic colorectal cancer	Group Leader, acting Head of Department Associate Professor Fred Hollande	Clinical Pathology
Investigating the effects of GM-CSF and M-CSF derived human macrophages on phagocytosing P. falciparum infected erythrocytes and cytokine production	Dr Adrian Achuthan	Medicine and Radiology
Investigating the link between histone modifications, gene expression and phenotype change in prostate cancer in response to androgen deprivation therapy.	Doctor Niall Corcoran Professor Christopher Hovens	Surgery
Investigating the role of signalling-specific mechanisms on tumour cell invasion	Dr Theo Mantmadiotis Dr Stanley Stylli	Surgery
Liver Group	Professor Christopher Christophi	Surgery
Low Literacy Decision Aid about Reproductive Choices for Younger Women with Breast Cancer	Project Lead Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Manometric studies on oesophageal atresia and colorectal disorders	Project Leader Dr Sebastian King	Paediatrics
Metastasis Research Group	Professor Albert G Frauman	Medicine and Radiology
Molecular Mechanisms of Tumour Resistance Laboratory	Dr Rodney Luwor	Surgery
Molecular Microbiology and Reproductive Health Research Group	Honorary, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Royal Women's Hospital/Mercy Professor Suzanne M. Garland	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
New inhibitors for mitochondrial fission protein DRP1	Dr Jessica Holien Dr Shiang (Max) Lim	Surgery
NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence for Reducing the Burden of Colorectal Cancer by Optimising Screening	Project Leader Professor Jon Emery, Herman Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research	General Practice
Novel Approaches in Therapeutic Endoscopy	Associate Professor Alan Moss	Medicine and Radiology
Novel investigations and treatments for intractable, chronic constipation	Project Leader Dr Bridget Southwell	Paediatrics
Novel treatments for colorectal disorders	Project Leader Dr Sebastian King	Paediatrics
Optimising the management of patients awaiting liver transplantation	Professor Christopher Christophi Senior Lecturer Michael Fink	Surgery
Paediatric and Adolescent Fertility Preservation Taskforce	Senior Lecturer Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Paediatric Fertility Decision Aid Study	Project Lead Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Palliative Medicine Research Group	Group Leader Professor Jennifer Philip	Medicine and Radiology
Postnatal germ cells are controlled by FSH during ‘minipuberty’ at 3-6 months of age, and deranged by cryptorchidism to cause seminoma and infertility	Project Leader Dr Ruili Li	Paediatrics
Preparing for clincial trials of synchrotron microbeam radiation therapy for cancer treatment	Professor of Women's Health Research Professsor Peter Rogers	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Prevalence of Risk Factors for Melanoma in Primary Care Patients using the MelaTools Risk Calculator	Project Leader Professor Jon Emery, Herman Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research,	General Practice
Priorities and Needs of Women Living with Advanced Cancer	Project Lead Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Prostate cancer progression inhibition	Group Leader Professor Albert G Frauman	Medicine and Radiology
Prostate Cancer Research Group	Professor Christopher Hovens	Surgery
Rare Disease Oncogenomics	Head of Laboratory Dr Richard Tothill	Clinical Pathology
Reducing disparities in mortality and survival for rural Victorians with colorectal cancer	Rebecca Bergin	General Practice
Regulation of Cancer Development by Transforming Growth Factor-beta Signalling	Dr Hong-Jian Zhu	Surgery
Regulation of cancer stem cell self-renewal in colorectal cancer	Group Leader, Acting deputy Head of Department Associate Professor Fred Hollande	Clinical Pathology
Regulation of invadopodium function and involvement in cancer cell invasion	Dr Stanley Stylli	Surgery
Regulation of invadopodium function and involvement in cancer cell invasion	Dr Stanley Styllianos Stylli	Surgery
Regulators of allogeneic stem cell engraftment, graft versus host disease and graft-versus leukaemia	Group Leader Professor David Ritchie	Medicine and Radiology
Reproductive Steroids Research Group	Group Leader Professor Mathis Grossmann, MD, PhD, FRACP	Medicine and Radiology
Role of calcitonin receptor in stressed cells and diseased tissues: a new paradigm based on expression in the pre-apoptotic cell stress response	Group Leader Dr Peter J Wookey	Medicine and Radiology
The role of the essential biometal zinc in pathological and physiological processes	Professor Graham Baldwin Dr Oneel Patel Dr Joseph Ischia	Surgery
Role of p-21-activated kinases in pancreactic cancer	Professor Graham Baldwin Dr Mehrdad Nikfarjam	Surgery
The role of the Renin Angiotensin System in tumour progression and recurrence following tumour resection	Professor Christopher Christophi	Surgery
Serum biomarkers of brain cancer	Dr Andrew Morokoff	Surgery
Sexual dysfunction in women who have experienced cancer	Dr Jennifer Marino Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Spinal Biology Laboratory	Doctor Gerald Quan	Surgery
STEP Care Trial	Project Lead Anna Collins	Medicine and Radiology
Structural biology of proteins involved in cancer	Dr Craig Morton	Medicine and Radiology
Studying the Continuum of Cancer Care through Linking Primary Data	Research Project Leader Professor Jon Emery	General Practice
Supporting earlier cancer diagnosis and efficient referral pathways in general practice		General Practice
Supporting fertility presentation decisions in women with breast cancer	Dr Michelle Peate A/Prof Lesley Stafford	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Surgical Research Group	Chair of Paediatric Surgery Professor John M Hutson AO	Paediatrics
Targeting cell death pathways in biliary tract cancers	Prof John Mariadason	Medicine and Radiology
Targeting stem cells as a new treatment for stomach cancer	Dr Trevelyan Menheniott A/Professor Philip Sutton	Paediatrics
Targeting the angiogenic and osteoclastic pathways in spinal cancer	Doctor Gerald Quan Doctor Gerald Quan	Surgery
Targeting the Lymphatics in colorectal Liver metastasis	Professor Christopher Christophi	Surgery
Testing the effect of aspirin on colonic organoids from people with Lynch syndrome	Dr Eric Jihoon Joo A/Prof Fred Hollande	Clinical Pathology
The assessment of oral cancer risk using a chair-side tool for salivary aldehyde production	Professor Michael McCullough	Surgery
The CGA-Oncology Study: Comprehensive geriatric assessment and intervention in older lung cancer patients	Project Lead Professor Andrea B Maier	Medicine and Radiology
The experience of clinical trials for palliative care patients	Prof Jennifer Philip	Medicine and Radiology
The Genomic Drivers of High Risk Prostate cancer	Professor Christopher Hovens Doctor Niall Corcoran	Surgery
The health economics of caring for people with advanced cancer	Prof Jennifer Philip	Medicine and Radiology
The Medical Genome Reference Bank as a population control for germline variants in colorectal and prostate cancer	Dr Bernard Pope A/Prof Daniel Buchanan	Clinical Pathology
The Psychosocial Health and Wellbeing Research (emPoWeR) Unit	Research Group Leader Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
The role of an isoform of calcitonin receptor in glioma stem cells	Dr Peter Wookey	Medicine and Radiology
The role of EGFR Signaling in Glioblastoma Progression and Resistance to Current Therapies	Dr Rodney Luwor	Surgery
The role of FANCM gene in inherited breast cancer	Dr Andrew Deans	Medicine and Radiology
The role of invadopodia in glioma invasion and response to therapeutics	Dr Stanley Stylli	Surgery
The role of invadopodia in glioma invasion and response to therapeutics	Dr Stanley Styllianos Stylli	Surgery
The role of miRNA in oral mucosal disorders	Professor Michael McCullough	Surgery
The role of RECQL4 gene in cancer predispositon	Dr Andrew Deans	Medicine and Radiology
The role of STAT3-mediated Cancer Progression and Resistance to Current Therapies	Dr Rodney Luwor	Surgery
Ubiquitination and Fanconi Anemia	Dr Andrew Deans	Medicine and Radiology
Ultrasound	Group Leader Professor Robert N Gibson	Medicine and Radiology
Understanding how A-to-I RNA editing modifies the immunogenicity of endogenous RNA	Dr Alistair Chalk	Medicine and Radiology
Understanding palliative care as an effective intervention	Prof Jennifer Philip	Medicine and Radiology
Understanding the aetiology of Serrated Polyposis Syndrome	Head of Laboratory Dr Daniel Buchanan	Clinical Pathology
Understanding The Immune Environment in Metastatic Melanoma	Surgeon, Project Leader Dr David Gyorki	Surgery
Understanding the microenvironment of lymphodema	Dr Ramin Shayan Dr Tara Karnezis	Surgery
Understanding the role of CXCR7 in lymphodema following radiation injury	Dr Ramin Shayan Dr Tara Karnezis	Surgery
Undescended testis and inguinal hernia result from defects in the same mechanism	Project Leader Professor John M Hutson AO	Paediatrics
Unravelling the aetiology of Colonic Polyposis through multi-omic profiling	A/Prof Daniel Buchanan Dr Mark Clendenning	Clinical Pathology
Use of Connexin43 peptides as a treatment for glioma	Dr Stanley Stylli	Surgery
Use of retinoic acid receptor ligands to increase the numbers of haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells for transplantation purposes	Dr Alistair Chalk	Medicine and Radiology
Western Health Cancer Research	Group Leader Professor Michael Green	Medicine and Radiology
Impact of risk-reducing bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy on non-cancer outcomes in young high-risk women: a multicentre prospective study.	Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne, The Royal Women's Hospital Professor Martha Hickey	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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Groups / Projects	Research Lead	Dept / Centre
A randomised controlled trial of anti-androgen treatment for transgender women.	Prof Jeffrey Zajac	Medicine and Radiology
A randomised controlled trial of transdermal versus intramuscular testosterone therapy in transgender males	Prof Jeffrey Zajac	Medicine and Radiology
Adipocyte Biology, Insulin Resistance and Cardiovascular Disease	Group Leader Associate Professor Andrew Wilson	Medicine and Radiology
AMPK regulation of cholesterol metabolism	Prof Bruce Kemp	Medicine and Radiology
AMPK regulation of lipid metabolism	Prof Bruce Kemp	Medicine and Radiology
An anti-calcitonin receptor (CTR) antibody for the detection of programmed cell death: the role of CTR in a novel adaptive response in a pre-apoptotic mechanism	Dr Peter Wookey	Medicine and Radiology
Analysing the mutations in calcitonin receptor (CTR) mRNA transcripts, and identifying the isoforms and polymorphisms of CTR expressed in high grade glioma cell lines from glioblastoma	Dr Peter Wookey	Medicine and Radiology
Arterial coronary artery bypass surgery	Prof Alistair Royse Prof Colin Royse	Surgery
Arterial grafting for coronary artery revascularisation	Co-director Colin Royse	Surgery
Assessment of mitochondrial function in a mouse model of obesity and type 2 diabetes	A/Prof Sof Andrikopoulos	Medicine and Radiology
Biomarkers of Atherosclerosis	Group Leader Associate Professor Andrew Wilson	Medicine and Radiology
Biomedical Translational Research Group: Developing Therapies for Cardiovascular Disease	Group Leader Professor Darren Kelly	Medicine and Radiology
Can preoperative focused cardiac ultrasound improve morbidity and mortality after emergency noncardiac surgery? a pilot RCT	A/Prof David Canty Prof Colin Royse	Surgery
Cardioprotection with Nano-MDIVI-1	Dr Shiang (Max) Lim	Surgery
Cardiovascular and Tumourivascular Laboratory	Group Leader Dr Peter J Wookey	Medicine and Radiology
Cardiovascular Risk in Nephrotic Syndrome	Dr Jonathan Mynard Dr Catherine Quinlan	Paediatrics
Characterisation of GLUT12 knockout mice	Prof Bruce Kemp	Medicine and Radiology
Characterization of GPR35 in models of cardiac and renal disease	Dr Andrew Kompa Dr Amanda Edgley	Medicine and Radiology
Chronic Kidney Disease in the Management of people with Type 2 Diabetes in General Practice	Project Leader Dr Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis	General Practice
Cognitive Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Comparison of learning focused cardiac ultrasound between self-directed and proctored simulator teaching pf medical students	A/Prof David Canty Prof Colin Royse	Surgery
Connecting a macro-vessel to a pre-vascularized scaffold	A/Prof Geraldine Mitchell	Surgery
Creating transplantable human capillary networks derived from adult human stem cells	A/Prof Geraldine Mitchell	Surgery
Developing novel therapies for the treatment of retinal disease	Professor Darren Kelly Project Lead Dr Amanda Edgley	Medicine and Radiology
Diabetes and Cardio-Metabolic Conditions	Research Program Leader Associate Professor John Furler	General Practice
Diabetes and Obesity	Associate Professor Elif Ekinci Professor Joe Proietto	Medicine and Radiology
Diabetes Discovery - prevalence and outcomes in inpatients with diabetes	Project Leader Dr Elif Ekinci	Medicine and Radiology
Diabetic Retinopathy and Health Informatics Collaboratory	Group Leader Dr Laima Brazionis	Medicine and Radiology
Effect of uraemic toxins of vascular reactivity	Dr Andrew Kompa	Medicine and Radiology
Effects of Dichloroacetic Acid (DCA) on Exercise Performance in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF): a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Cross-Over Trial	AssociateProfessor Chris Neil	Medicine and Radiology
Evaluation of cardio-metabolic effects of Incretin-based therapies in type 2 diabetes	Project Lead Professor Sanjoy Paul	Medicine and Radiology
Evaluation of the obesity paradox in diabetes: A longitudinal case-control study of half a million patients	Project Lead Professor Sanjoy Paul	Medicine and Radiology
Exploring the microbiome and epigenetic links in obesity development	Dr Barbara Fam	Medicine and Radiology
Gene signatures of the ‘lymphaticome’	Dr Ramin Shayan Dr Tara Karnezis	Surgery
Genetic Analysis of Impaired beta Cell Function and Loss in Type 2 diabetes	A/Prof Sof Andrikopoulos	Medicine and Radiology
Goal-directed cognitive rehabilitation for self-management in older diabetic adults	Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs	Medicine and Radiology
High Dose Vitamin D and Post-Stroke Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial	Associate Professor Tissa Wijeratne	Medicine and Radiology
How do HLA-DQ2 and DQ-8 increase the risk of people developing Type 1 diabetes?	A/Prof Stuart Mannering	Medicine and Radiology
How do long noncoding RNAs (IncRNAs) regulate dendritic cell function and prevent autoimmune disease?	Dr Tom Brodnicki	Medicine and Radiology
How does amino acid supply immune cell function and the development of autoimmune disease?	Dr Tom Brodnicki	Medicine and Radiology
Hypoglycaemia and its consequences	Project Lead Professor Sanjoy Paul	Medicine and Radiology
Identifying IL-17 receptor functions in pancreatic beta cells	A/Prof Helen Thomas	Medicine and Radiology
Imaging	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Inhibiting hypoxia and inflammation-induced damage to improve the outcomes of islet transplantation	A/Prof Helen Thomas	Medicine and Radiology
Investigating the effects of GM-CSF and M-CSF derived human macrophages on phagocytosing P. falciparum infected erythrocytes and cytokine production	Dr Adrian Achuthan	Medicine and Radiology
Investigation of inter-arm blood pressure differences during paediatric exercise testing	Dr Jonathan Mynard Dr Michael Cheung	Paediatrics
Lifestyle and Prevention	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Management of acute decompensated heart failure in inpatients with diabetes	Project Leader Dr Elif Ekinci	Medicine and Radiology
Mental Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Modulating fibrosis and myocardial injury in Muscular Dystrophy	Dr Adam Piers A/Professor Salvatore Pepe	Paediatrics
Modulation of CAMKK-Beta signalling by genetic variants	Prof Bruce Kemp	Medicine and Radiology
Molecular mediators of gene:environment interactions underlying early life programming of cardiovascular and metabolic risk.	Professor Richard Saffery Dr David Burgner	Paediatrics
Multimorbidity in Ageing	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Multimorbidity and glycaemia in people with type 2 diabetes attending Australian general practice: a cross-sectional study utilising data from NPS MedicineInsight	Principal Investigator Dr Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis	General Practice
Musculoskeletal and Bone Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
New inhibitors for mitochondrial fission protein DRP1	Dr Jessica Holien Dr Shiang (Max) Lim	Surgery
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – characterising disease features in order to develop new therapies	Dr Amanda Edgley	Medicine and Radiology
Novel therapies for the treatment of cardiorenal disease	Project Lead Dr Andrew Kompa	Medicine and Radiology
Novel therapies for the treatment of cardiorenal syndrome	Dr Andrew Kompa	Medicine and Radiology
Novel therapies for the treatment of cardiovascular disease	Professor Darren Kelly Project Lead Dr Amanda Edgley	Medicine and Radiology
Pathophysiology of glycaemic and cardiovascular risk factors in diabetes	Project Lead Professor Sanjoy Paul	Medicine and Radiology
Peak exercise capacity in patients with a Fontan circulation	Professor Yves D'Udekem Dr Rachael Cordina	Paediatrics
Post-translational regulation of AMPK	Prof Bruce Kemp	Medicine and Radiology
Quality of Life	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Quantitating Corneal Density in Fabry Disease	A/Prof Kathy Nicholls	Medicine and Radiology
Refining the comprehensive geriatric assessment	Prof. Kwang Lim	Medicine and Radiology
Repurposing JAK1/JAK2 inhibitors to treat Type 1 diabetes	Prof Tom Kay	Medicine and Radiology
Serial Evaluation of Cardiac and Vascular Function in Preeclampsia: Full Recovery or Persistent LV Contractile Impairment?	Professor Joanne Said	Medicine and Radiology
Significance and Temporal Course of Advanced Echocardiographic Measurements of Left Ventricular Function in an Australian Cohort of Stage A Heart Failure, with High Baseline Cardiovascular Risk	A/Professor Chris Neil	Medicine and Radiology
Small vessel disease as a marker for poorly controlled hypertension	Prof Judy Savige	Medicine and Radiology
Spermtyping – Single cell analysis of the generation of genetic diversity via DNA repair pathways	Dr Wayne Crismani	Medicine and Radiology
Targeting inflammation and fibrosis for the treatment of retinal disease	Dr Roy Kong	Medicine and Radiology
The blood pressure drop makes you fall	Dr. Julian Sacre	Medicine and Radiology
The economic impact of total arterial grafting in coronary arterial bypass graft surgery compared to arterial and venous grafting	A/Prof David Canty Prof Andrew Palmer	Surgery
The GP-OSMOTIC trial: Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Type 2 Diabetes	Project Leader Associate Professor John Furler	General Practice
The intra-individual rate of ageing	Prof. Andrea Maier	Medicine and Radiology
The radial artery in coronary bypass surgery	Prof Alistair Royse Prof Colin Royse	Surgery
The role of an isoform of calcitonin receptor in glioma stem cells	Dr Peter Wookey	Medicine and Radiology
The role of nucleic acid sensing in triggering autoimmune diabetes	Dr Tom Brodnicki	Medicine and Radiology
Therapeutic Inertia for Glycaemic and Cardiovascular Risk Factor Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Real-world Electronic Medical Records Based Study	Professor Sanjoy Paul	Medicine and Radiology
Towards a biological geriatric assessment	Dr. Camilla Tuttle	Medicine and Radiology
Translational Cardiovascular Biology	Group Leader Associate Professor Andrew Wilson	Medicine and Radiology
Transoesophageal echoardiography in cardiac surgery	Co-director Colin Royse	Surgery
Treating fibrosis and inflammation to prevent end-organ damage in diabetes	Dr Roy Kong	Medicine and Radiology
Ultrasound Education Group	Co-director Professor Colin Royse Professor Alistair Royse	Surgery
Understanding antibiotic prescribing and use of guidelines in general practice – the GP National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey (GP NAPS) pilot study	Principal Investigator Dr Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis	General Practice
Understanding how interferons are involved in autoimmune diabetes	Dr Tom Brodnicki	Medicine and Radiology
Understanding if islet-infiltrating CTL can be identified in peripheral blood as biomarkers of Type 1 diabetes	Dr Bala Krishnamurthy	Medicine and Radiology
Validation and Reliability of a Japanese ver. of PostopQRS	Prof Colin Royse	Surgery
Vascular Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Women's Healthy Ageing Project	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology

Child Health in Medicine

Groups / Projects	Research Lead	Dept / Centre
Adolescent2Emerging Adult Development Study	A/Prof Sarah Whittle Dr Julian Simmons	Psychiatry
Adult Pneumonia In Mongolia In The Era Of A Childhood Pneumococcal Vaccine Programme	Professor Kim Mulholland	Paediatrics
Advancing vaccine development for infectious diseases: bioinformatics, antibody engineering, immunoassay development and human cohort studies	Dr Jack Richards	Medicine and Radiology
An alternative method to temporarily secure umbilical catheter(s) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Women’s Hospital, in routine care of newborns requiring central vascular access	Dr, MD, PhD Marta Thio Professor Peter G Davis	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Applying New Genomic Technologies To Understand The Genetic Basis Of Autism Spectrum Disorder	Associate Professor Paul Lockhart	Paediatrics
Associations between domestic violence in pregnancy and women’s and their subsequent children’s outcomes	Ashlee Smith Dr Anna Price	Paediatrics
BiliNappy: Novel low cost point-of-care diagnostic for Jaundice embedded in a newborn nappy	Dr Anushi Rajapaksa Dr Ronda Greaves	Paediatrics
Burden of disease associated with genetic aetiology at a paediatric hospital	Professor Jane Halliday Professor Agnes Bankier	Paediatrics
Can dietary phytophenols improve pregnancy outcomes?	Associate Professor Martha Lappas	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Cerebral Palsy Research	Group Leader Professor Dinah Reddihough	Paediatrics
Changing the Trajectories of Australia's Most Vulnerable Children- The Early Years Education Program Randomised Controlled Trial	Professor Jeff Borland	Paediatrics
Characterisation of the parkin protein and how it causes parkinson disease	Dr Alison Compton Professor David Thorburn	Paediatrics
Characterisation of the specificity and activity of bio-engineered antibodies in children	A/Professor Vera Ignjatovic A/Professor Christoph Hagemeyer	Paediatrics
Chromosome disorders	Professor David Amor	Paediatrics
Community Child Health Group	Group Lead Professor Sharon Goldfeld	Paediatrics
Community Study of the Genetics of Autism Spectrum Disorder	Project Lead Professor Ingrid Scheffer	Medicine and Radiology
Deepening Our Understanding Of Severe Irritability In Children	Professor David Coghill	Paediatrics
Detection and prevention of tuberculosis in children and adolescents in endemic, resource-limited settings	Project Leader Professor Steve Graham	Paediatrics
Developing and commercialising new diagnostic tests for tropical infectious diseases	Dr Jack Richards	Medicine and Radiology
Developing field-based tools and health systems for malaria elimination	Dr Jack Richards	Medicine and Radiology
Developing New Therapies For Childhood Heart Disease Using Stem Cell Technology	Professor David Elliott	Paediatrics
Developing Objective Measures To Improve Outcomes In ADHD	Professor David Coghill	Paediatrics
Development of novel point-of-care diagnostics tests and surveillance tools	Dr Philippe Boeuf	Medicine and Radiology
Diabetic Retinopathy and Health Informatics Collaboratory	Group Leader Dr Laima Brazionis	Medicine and Radiology
Discovering the mechanisms and targets of immunity against malaria	Prof James Beeson	Medicine and Radiology
Early Life Molecular Pathways Underpinning Later Health And Disease	Professor Richard Saffery	Paediatrics
Early Life Molecular Pathways Underpinning Later Health And Disease	Professor Richard Saffery	Paediatrics
Effect of ACTN3 on corticosteroid response in Duchenne muscular dystrophy	Dr Jane Seto Professor Kathryn North	Paediatrics
Effects of Vitamin D Status on DEXA Femoral Neck BMD in Children and Adolescents	A/Prof Christine Rodda	Medicine and Radiology
Effects of Vitamin D Status on Forearm Fracture Healing Rates in Children and Adolescents: A Pilot Study	Associate Professor Christine Rodda	Medicine and Radiology
Engineering artificial bone marrow	Professor Andrew Elefanty Ms Elizabeth Ng	Paediatrics
Evaluating health outcomes of transgender children and adolescents	Dr Ken Pang Dr Michelle Tollit	Psychiatry
Examining A New Drug Target For Preventing Stomach Cancer	Professor Philip Sutton	Paediatrics
Examining A New Drug Target For Preventing Stomach Cancer	Professor Philip Sutton	Paediatrics
Examining novel markers of pneumococcal vaccine immunity	A/Prof Paul Licciardi	Paediatrics
Examining the effect of alpha-actinin-3 deficiency in skeletal muscle injury	Professor Kathryn North Dr Peter Houweling	Paediatrics
Examining the evolutionary role of alpha-actinin-3 in adaptive thermogenesis	Professor Kathryn North Dr Peter Houweling	Paediatrics
Family Study of the Genetics of Autism Spectrum Disorder	Project Lead Professor Ingrid Scheffer	Medicine and Radiology
Functional studies of sodium channel mutations contributing to severe childhood epilepsy	Dr Geza Berecki	Medicine and Radiology
Gene Discovery in Families with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder	Project Lead Dr Cherie Green	Medicine and Radiology
Genetics Education and Health Research	Research Group Leader Professor Sylvia Metcalfe	Paediatrics
Haemostatic abnormalities in children with venous thromboembolism and stroke	A/Professor Vera Ignjatovic Professor Paul Monagle	Paediatrics
Haemostatic system in Fontan patients with liver dysfunction	A/Professor Vera Ignjatovic Ms Chantal Attard	Paediatrics
Handling Missing Data In Complex Longitudinal Studies	Dr Margarita Moreno Betancur	Paediatrics
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies in Papua New Guinea – The impact of nutrition, malaria, and other infections on pregnant women and infants	Prof. James Beeson	Medicine and Radiology
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies: Maternal metabolic disturbances, inflammation, and poor nutrition and their impact on pregnancy outcomes	Dr Philippe Boeuf	Medicine and Radiology
How Do Monocytes Remember? Characterisation Of The Early Life Exposures That Induce Innate Immune Memory	Mr Boris Novakovic	Paediatrics
How do mutations in dynein motor components cause birth defects?	A/Prof Jorg Heierhorst	Medicine and Radiology
How is hair cortisol related to mother's mental health and wellbeing over time?	Prof Sharon Goldfeld Dr Anna Price	Paediatrics
How to increase numbers of neural precursor cells in vitro for cell therapy for the birth defect Hirschsprung disease.	Dr Donald Newgreen Mr Lincon Stamp	Paediatrics
How to transfer neural precursor cells to the aneural colon for cell therapy for the birth defect Hirschsprung disease.	Dr Donald Newgreen Mr Lincon Stamp	Paediatrics
Human resource capacity building for child health in Laos PDR	Project Leader Dr Amy Gray	Paediatrics
Human Stem Cell Models of Mitochondrial Disease	Professor David Thorburn	Paediatrics
Human Stem Cell Models of Mitochondrial Disease	Dr Ann Frazier Professor David Thorburn	Paediatrics
Human Testis Organoids From Stem Cells - A Novel Model For Reproductive Disorders	Professor Andrew Sinclair	Paediatrics
Identification Of New Genes That Cause Disorders/Differences Of Sex Development	Professor Andrew Sinclair	Paediatrics
Identification of novel vaccine targets that induce protective immunity against malaria	Gaoqian Feng	Medicine and Radiology
Identifying The Genetic Causes Of Brain Malformation In Children	Associate Professor Paul Lockhart	Paediatrics
Impact of Extreme Prematurity or Extreme Low Birthweight on Young Adult Health and Well-being	A/Prof Jeanie Cheong	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
In vitro models of type 1 diabetes	Professor Edouard Stanley Professor Andrew Elefanty	Paediatrics
Infant and Family Wellbeing after Cardiac Surgery: Life as a Pre-schooler	PhD student Tamera Clancy	Paediatrics
Infectious Diseases Group	Research Group Leader Professor Nigel Curtis
Infusion Safety in Newborn Babies	A/Prof Christiane Theda Dr Omar Kamlin	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Innate immune responses to Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes	Group Leader Professor Stephen Rogerson	Medicine and Radiology
Intestinal Failure and Clinical Nutrition Group	Group Leader Professor Julie Bines	Paediatrics
Investigating the effects of GM-CSF and M-CSF derived human macrophages on phagocytosing P. falciparum infected erythrocytes and cytokine production	Dr Adrian Achuthan	Medicine and Radiology
Investigation of the age-specific changes in Blood Microparticles	A/Professor Vera Ignjatovic Ms Mara Galli	Paediatrics
Investigation of the in vitro effect of the antiplatelet drug Tirofiban in children	A/Professor Vera Ignjatovic Ms Mara Galli	Paediatrics
Kidney Development, Disease and Regeneration	Research Group Leader Professor Melissa Little	Paediatrics
Kids In Communities Study (KiCS)	Project Lead Dr Karen Villanueva	Paediatrics
Malaria drug resistance in the Asia Pacific region	Associate Professor Freya Fowkes	Medicine and Radiology
Measuring low value care across inpatient, outpatient and emergency department settings	Professor Harriet Hiscock Ms Rachel Neely	Paediatrics
Measuring low value care in the emergency department; a multi-site study	Professor Harriet Hiscock Ms Rachel Neely	Paediatrics
Mechanisms of anxiety risk across development and sex	A/Prof Sarah Whittle	Psychiatry
Menstrual concerns in young women: the father's perspective (DADs Study)	Senior Lecturer Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
MenstrualNeeds Study: Exploring the physical, psychological and social needs of adolescent girls with heavy menstrual bleeding and pain	Dr Michelle Peate Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Modelling childhood leukaemias using human pluripotent stem cells	Professor Andrew Elefanty Ms Elizabeth Ng	Paediatrics
Molecular Microbiology and Reproductive Health Research Group	Honorary, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Royal Women's Hospital/Mercy Professor Suzanne M. Garland	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
New vaccines group	Professor Kim Mulholland	Paediatrics
Newborn Health Project, Solomon Islands	Project Lead Professor Trevor Duke	Paediatrics
Oral Health and Attitudes in Young Adults Aged 15-25 Years with Diabetes Mellitus: A Case - Control Study	Associate Professor Chritine Rodda	Medicine and Radiology
Paediatric Fertility Decision Aid Study	Project Lead Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Paediatric social work research group	Associate Professor Brigid Jordan	Paediatrics
Placental dysfunction in the causal pathway to cerebral palsy	Professor David Amor Dr Susan Reid	Paediatrics
Pneumococcal Research	Project Lead Professor Kim Mulholland	Paediatrics
Postnatal complications among women in Papua New Guinea	Dr Chris Morgan Dr Alyce Wilson	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Predicition of ovarian malignancy in children with ovarian cysts	Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Preventing gestational diabetes	Associate Professor Martha Lappas	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Psychosocial determinants of health in infants & preschool children with Cystic Fibrosis diagnosed via newborn screening	Associate Professor Brigid Jordan	Paediatrics
R E Ross Trust Regional Child Health Fellowship Program	Project Leader Professor Trevor Duke	Paediatrics
Restacking The Odds: Understanding The Barriers And Solutions To Antenatal Care Participation	Professor Sharon Goldfeld	Paediatrics
Rogerson Laboratory: Pathogenesis of malaria and immunity in children and pregnant women	Group Leader Professor Stephen Rogerson	Medicine and Radiology
Rotavirus Group and Enteric Virus Group	Group Leader Professor Julie Bines	Paediatrics
Savige Laboratory	Group Leader Professor Judy Savige	Medicine and Radiology
Solving Rare Diseases Via The Australian Genomics Mitochondrial Disease Flagship	Dr Alison Compton	Paediatrics
Solving Rare Diseases via the Australian Genomics Mitochondrial Disease Flagship	A/Professor Paul Lockhart Dr Sarah Stephenson	Paediatrics
Solving Rare Diseases via the Australian Genomics Mitochondrial Disease Flagship	Dr Alison Compton Professor David Thorburn	Paediatrics
Spermtyping – Single cell analysis of the generation of genetic diversity via DNA repair pathways	Dr Wayne Crismani	Medicine and Radiology
Stress Reactivity in Pre-schoolers with Congenital Heart Disease	Associate Professor Brigid Jordan	Paediatrics
Structural biology of proteins involved in infection	Dr Craig Morton	Medicine and Radiology
Surgical experience in paediatric gynaecology	Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Susceptibility to adult disorders in carriers of Mendelian alleles	Professor Martin Delatycki Dr Sarah Stephenson	Paediatrics
Targets of protective immunity in severe malaria	Dr Michael Duffy	Medicine and Radiology
The application of a novel dried blood spot collection device for future diagnostic applications	A/Professor Jeffrey Craig Dr Andrew Gooley	Paediatrics
The Application Of Genomic Testing In Adults With Intellectual Disability	Professor David Amor	Paediatrics
The Collaborative AuTism Study (CATS)	Professor Ingrid Scheffer	Medicine and Radiology
The development of feeding in infants with oesophageal atresia between birth and nine months of age	PhD student Libby Ferguson	Paediatrics
The early origins of autism: a focus on epigenetic differences within identical twin pairs	A/Professor Jeffrey Craig Dr Yuk Loke	Paediatrics
The epidemiology of childhood food allergy and other allergic diseases	Dr Rachel Peters Dr Jennifer Koplin	Paediatrics
The feasibility and acceptability of a mindfulness meditation program within the preschool setting	Professor Harriet Hiscock Dr Jane Sheehan	Paediatrics
The human microbiome in gut, oral and mental health	Dr Julian G Simmons	Psychiatry
The immune response to infection in early cystic fibrosis	A/Professor Philip Sutton A/Professor Sarath Ranganathan	Paediatrics
The prognosis/diagnosis of common pregnancy complications utilising genetic material found in extracellular vesicles derived from maternal blood and urine.	DR Bill Kalionis Dr Harry Georgiou	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
The ‘Premmie Health Profile’: Do babies born early or small have distinct patterns of health and metabolic disparities?	Dr Susan Clifford Professor Melissa Wake	Paediatrics
The “Best Age and Size to be Born”	Dr Susan Clifford Professor Melissa Wake	Paediatrics
Umbilical cord pulsation at the time of Delayed cord clamping in preterm infants	Dr MD PhD Marta Thio	Paediatrics
Understanding brain development in ADHD using longitudinal, multimodal neuroimaging.	Dr Timothy Silk Dr Charles Malpas	Paediatrics
Understanding malaria transmission and immunity to inform malaria elimination	Prof James Beeson	Medicine and Radiology
Understanding Rab39b-Mediated Parkinson's Disease	Associate Professor Paul Lockhart	Paediatrics
Understanding Significance Of Low Level Mosaicism In Rare Paediatric Disease Associated With Intellectual Disability And Autism	Professor David Amor	Paediatrics
Understanding Significance Of Low Level Mosaicism In Rare Paediatric Disease Associated With Intellectual Disability And Autism	Associate Professor David Godler	Paediatrics
Understanding The Development Of Cognition And Academic Performance	Professor David Coghill	Paediatrics
Understanding The Early Development Of Cognition And Psychopathology	Professor David Coghill	Paediatrics
Understanding the pathogenesis of gestational diabetes	Associate Professor Martha Lappas	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Understanding what triggers birth? New opportunities for prevention of early delivery	Associate Professor Martha Lappas	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Unravelling The Genetic Cause Of Premature Ovarian Insufficiency	Professor Andrew Sinclair	Paediatrics
Unravelling the genetic cause of Premature Ovarian Insufficiency	Doctor Elena Tucker Professor Andrew Sinclair	Paediatrics
Uptake of immunisation services in rural Papua New Guinea (PNG)	Dr Chris Morgan Dr Alyce Wilson	Paediatrics
Using cerebral organoids for the study of tuberous sclerosis complex	A/Professor Paul Lockhart Dr Kiymet Bozaoglu	Paediatrics
Using Cerebral Organoids For The Study Of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex	Associate Professor Paul Lockhart	Paediatrics
Validating a generic mood question in a large cohort of Australian women	Prof Lynn Kemp Dr Anna Price	Paediatrics
Videorecording to guide newborn resuscitation: a feasibility study	Dr MD PhD Marta Thio	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
What are the education and training needs of health professionals incorporating genomics into healthcare? A mixed methods study	Dr Amy Nisselle Dr Belinda McClaren	Paediatrics
What does it cost to do research with women experiencing adversity?	Prof Sharon Goldfeld Dr Anna Price	Paediatrics
What influences mental health treatment choices for children in Australia? A qualitative study of family and clinician factors.	Ms Melissa Mulraney Professor Harriet Hiscock	Paediatrics
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Integrated Critical Care in Medicine

Groups / Projects	Research Lead	Dept / Centre
7-SIGMA Study	Principal Investigator Dr Lachlan Miles	Centre for Integrated Critical Care
Acute Spinal Therapeutics	Dr Peter Batchelor	Medicine and Radiology
Anaesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine	Professor and Head, APPMU; Director, Melbourne Clinical and Translational Science Research Platform (MCATS) David Story	Medicine and Radiology
Asia Pacific Research Accelerator (APRA) Program	Professor Mingguang He	Surgery
Asia Pacific Tele-Ophthalmology Society	Professor Mingguang He	Surgery
Cancer in Primary Care	Research Group Leader Professor Jon Emery	General Practice
Chewy Trial	Principal Investigator Dr Jai Darvall	Centre for Integrated Critical Care
Chronic Kidney Disease in the Management of people with Type 2 Diabetes in General Practice	Project Leader Dr Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis	General Practice
Contact Us		Medicine and Radiology
Cultural Respect Encompassing Simulation Training (CREST)	Project Leader Dr Phyllis Lau	General Practice
DAEUM Study	Head of Research Program Professor David Story	Centre for Integrated Critical Care
Development of an automated web-based screening system for eye diseases	Professor Mingguang He	Surgery
Development of novel point-of-care diagnostics tests and surveillance tools	Dr Philippe Boeuf	Medicine and Radiology
Diabetes and Cardio-Metabolic Conditions	Research Program Leader Associate Professor John Furler	General Practice
Diagnosis, Management and Outcomes of Depression in the Primary Care Setting (The Diamond 10-year Cohort Study)	Project Leader Professor Jane Gunn	General Practice
Focused cardiac and lung ultrasound in clinical care	Co-Director Professor Colin Royse	Surgery
Fostering Health: Examining health care systems for children and young people in Out-of-Home Care	Honorary Research Fellow Dr Susan Webster	General Practice
Genotype-phenotype correlations in renal complementopathies	Prof Judy Savige	Medicine and Radiology
Guangzhou Twin Eye Study	Professor Mingguang He	Surgery
Identifying risks for Thunderstorm Asthma in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis (TAISAR) cohort study	Prof Jo Douglass	Medicine and Radiology
International Register of Meta-Research (IRMR)	Principal Investigator Dr Georgina Imberger	Centre for Integrated Critical Care
Investigating the effects of GM-CSF and M-CSF derived human macrophages on phagocytosing P. falciparum infected erythrocytes and cytokine production	Dr Adrian Achuthan	Medicine and Radiology
Is the severity of illness associated with clinical malaria regulated by extracellular vesicles and their micro-RNA cargo?	Professor Siddhartha Mahanty	Medicine and Radiology
Joseph Epstein Centre for Emergency Medicine Research	Director, JECEMR Professor Anne-Maree Kelly	Medicine and Radiology
Let's talk about medical research: research equity for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) patients	Robyn Woodward-Kron	Medical Education
Management of acute decompensated heart failure in inpatients with diabetes	Project Leader Dr Elif Ekinci	Medicine and Radiology
Mapping the process of care in spinal cord injury: a substudy of the ICED trial	Group Leader Dr Peter Batchelor Group Leader Dr Peter Batchelor	Medicine and Radiology
Measuring capacity building in gastroenterology in the Pacific	Prof Finlay Macrae	Medicine and Radiology
Melbourne Clinic Research		Psychiatry
Meta-Research	Dr Georgina Imberger	Medicine and Radiology
Mindfulness, cognitive processes and coping in chronic illness: insights from a study of joint replacement surgery	Professor Peter Choong	Surgery
MUM SIZE Study	Head of Research Program Professor David Story	Centre for Integrated Critical Care
NATO Study	Principal Investigator Dr Lachlan Miles	Centre for Integrated Critical Care
New genes and treatments for inherited renal disease	Project Lead Prof Judy Savige	Medicine and Radiology
Palliative Medicine Research Group	Group Leader Professor Jennifer Philip	Medicine and Radiology
Placental Stem Cells	Deputy Head of Research, Director Head of the Stem Cell Laboratory Dr Bill Kalionis	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
POISE-3 Trial	Principal Investigator Professor Kate Leslie AO FAHMS	Centre for Integrated Critical Care
Postoperative Quality of Recovery	Co-director Colin Royse	Surgery
Preterm Labour	Senior Research Fellow Dr Harry Georgiou	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Prevalence of Risk Factors for Melanoma in Primary Care Patients using the MelaTools Risk Calculator	Project Leader Professor Jon Emery, Herman Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research,	General Practice
Real time recovery monitoring after surgery	Professor Colin Royse Professor Doa El-Ansary	Surgery
RedOX Survey	Principal Investigator Dr Megan Allen	Centre for Integrated Critical Care
Research projects		Medicine and Radiology
ROCKet Trial	Principal Investigator Professor Philip Peyton	Centre for Integrated Critical Care
Safety and feasibility trial of immediate cooling followed by early decompression in patients with cervical SCI; a substudy of the ICED trial	Group Leader Dr Peter Batchelor	Medicine and Radiology
SNAKE Study	Principal Investigator Associate Professor Bill Nimo	Centre for Integrated Critical Care
Student Engagement and Experience	Professor Clare Delany	Medical Education
Studying the Continuum of Cancer Care through Linking Primary Data	Research Project Leader Professor Jon Emery	General Practice
The Arthroplasty and Bariatric Surgery (ABS) Study: a randomised controlled trial of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding prior to total knee arthroplasty	Professor Peter Choong	Surgery
The effects of glucocorticoids on glycaemic control in pregnant women with gestational diabetes	Shane Hamblin
The fear of medical error: A growth mindset approach to ‘second victim’ support	Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Medical School and Professor, Melbourne Business School Professor Jill Klein	Medical Education
The health economics of caring for people with advanced cancer	Prof Jennifer Philip	Medicine and Radiology
The MARKA Study: Maximum Acceptable Risk of complication in total Knee Arthroplasty	Dr Michelle Dowsey	Surgery
They do tell you a lot. Supporting staff who support Medical Students	Associate Professor Eleanor Flynn	Medical Education
Toxicology	A/Professor Jonathan Knott	Medicine and Radiology
Trans Medical Research Fund - Improving Transgender Health	Dr Ada Cheung	Medicine and Radiology
Transoesophageal echoardiography in cardiac surgery	Co-director Colin Royse	Surgery
Ultrasound Education Group	Co-director Professor Colin Royse Professor Alistair Royse	Surgery
Validation of a rapid neurological assessment of spinal cord injury (SPEED): a substudy of the ICED trial	Group Leader Dr Peter Batchelor Group Leader Dr Peter Batchelor	Medicine and Radiology
VAPOR-C Trial	Principal Investigator Professor Bernhard Riedel	Centre for Integrated Critical Care
Virtual reality and surgery	Dr Sudanthi Wijewickrema Prof Stephen O’Leary	Surgery
Virtual Reality Surgery Simulation	Professor Stephen O'Leary	Surgery
Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing (WoTWoD) - An Indigenous Cultural Respect Program in General Practice	Project Leader Dr Phyllis Lau	General Practice
Web-based automated vision testing for cataract surgery outcome monitoring	Professor Mingguang He	Surgery
WeHELP Study	Principal Investigator Professor David Story	Centre for Integrated Critical Care
ZOC-BHVI High Myopia Cohort Study	Professor Mingguang He	Surgery

Musculoskeletal

Groups / Projects	Research Lead	Dept / Centre
@AgeMelbourne	Professor Andrea B Maier	Medicine and Radiology
A computer-aided decision system for gait analysis	Project Leader Dr Morgan Sangeux	Paediatrics
Advanced Limb Reconstruction	Head of Department of Surgery, St. Vincent's Hospital, Professor Peter Choong	Surgery
An ultrasensitive assay to detect aggrecan degradation products in patient fluids	Project Leader Professor Amanda Fosang	Paediatrics
Analysis of synovial fluid and peripheral blood samples from patients with rheumatoid arthritis and using patients with osteoarthritis as controls.	Associate Professor Keith Lim	Medicine and Radiology
Arthritis Research Group	Laboratory Head Professor Amanda Fosang	Paediatrics
BioFabrication of the osteo-chondral interface using multimodal 3D bioprinting	Professor Peter Choong	Surgery
Bioink development for cartilage tissue engineering	Dr Romane Blanchard Dr Cathal O’Connell	Surgery
Biological mechanisms underpinning the social gradient of health	Senior Research Fellow Dr Sharon Brennan-Olsen	Western Health
Bone and Mineral Research Group	Group Leader Professor John D Wark	Medicine and Radiology
Bone strength in young healthy females, older patients with low-trauma fracture and older healthy adults: peripheral quantitative computed tomography based finite element analysis	Group Leader Prof. John D Wark	Medicine and Radiology
Bone Substrate Composition Affecting Bone Cell Formation, Function and Bone Turnover	Associate Professor Damian Myers	Medicine and Radiology
Characterization of Osteosarcopenia in Older Persons: A Bench to Bedside Approach Characterization of Osteosarcopenia in Older Persons: A Bench to Bedside Approach	Dr David Scott	Medicine and Radiology
Cognitive Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Cognitive impairment and its interference with Activities of Daily Living	Dr Julian Sacre	Medicine and Radiology
Community engagement and policy discourse: Musculoskeletal disease	Senior Research Fellow Dr Sharon Brennan-Olsen	Western Health
Controlled mechanical stimulation for cartilage regeneration modelling with 3D bioprinting techniques	Dr Carmine Onofrillo Dr Serena Duchi	Surgery
Design of tensile strength tests for very soft materials	Dr Cathal O’Connell Dr Romane Blanchard	Surgery
Determining the role of CCL17 in arthritis and inflammation	A/Prof Andrew Cook	Medicine and Radiology
Developing a patient reported outcome measure for joint replacement patients	A/Prof Michelle Dowsey Dr Darshini Ayton	Surgery
Development and characterisation of an animal model of neurological heterotopic ossification	Dr Rhys Brady	Medicine and Radiology
Development of a Minimally Invasive Chronic Neural Interface	Group Leaders Dr Nicholas Opie and Dr Thomas Oxley	Medicine and Radiology
Development of mechanical testing protocols for very soft tissues	Dr Cathal O’Connell Dr Romane Blanchard	Surgery
Development of scaffolds for restoration of myotendous junctions	A/Prof Robert Kapsa	Medicine and Radiology
Diffusion properties in hydrogel materials	Dr Cathal O’Connell Dr Romane Blanchard	Surgery
Dynamic microfluidic in vitro differentiation of stem cells for cartilage regeneration in surgical 3D bioprinting	Dr Carmine Onofrillo Dr Serena Duchi	Surgery
Effects of Vitamin D Status on DEXA Femoral Neck BMD in Children and Adolescents	A/Prof Christine Rodda	Medicine and Radiology
Effects of Vitamin D Status on Forearm Fracture Healing Rates in Children and Adolescents: A Pilot Study	Associate Professor Christine Rodda	Medicine and Radiology
Elucidating molecular signalling pathways controlled by anti-inflammatory steroids	Dr Adrian Achuthan	Medicine and Radiology
Elucidating the Effect of Hyperglycaemia (Short and Long Term) on Bone and Muscle Quality and Metabolism	Associate Professor Itamar Levinger	Medicine and Radiology
EMPOWER the power of human muscle	Prof. Kwang Lim	Medicine and Radiology
Evaluating the clinical and cost effectiveness of total joint replacement	Prof Philip Clarke A/Prof Michelle Dowsey	Surgery
Evaluating the impact of obesity on knee load over time in those who have undergone optimal surgical re-alignment after total knee replacement	Professor Peter Choong	Surgery
Gait, Cognition and Decline (The GOOD Project)	Professor Gustavo Duque	Medicine and Radiology
Generation of an ex vivo regeneration model for 3D bioprinting applications	Dr Carmine Onofrillo Dr Serena Duchi	Surgery
GM-CSF-mediated molecular signalling pathways contributing to inflammation	Dr Adrian Achuthan	Medicine and Radiology
HDAC6 inhibitors as a treatment for Rett syndrome: Resolving neuronal trafficking deficits	Dr Nicole Van Bergen Professor John Christodoulou	Paediatrics
Healthy Ageing Program	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
How does bone matrix composition determine bone strength?	A/Prof Natalie Sims	Medicine and Radiology
Hugh Williamson Gait Laboratory/Orthopaedic Department	Research Group Leader Professor Kerr Graham	Paediatrics
Identifying novel cartilage proteins with new functions	Project Leader Professor Amanda Fosang	Paediatrics
Imaging	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
In Vivo Tibiofemoral Biomechanics in Healthy Adults During Functional Activity	Dr Hans Gray	Surgery
Investigating lipotoxic impacts of fatty acid synthesis on: (1) osteoblasts, and (2) osteoclast, in vitro and (3) Skeletal Muscle	Associate Professor Damian Myers	Medicine and Radiology
Investigating the effects of GM-CSF and M-CSF derived human macrophages on phagocytosing P. falciparum infected erythrocytes and cytokine production	Dr Adrian Achuthan	Medicine and Radiology
Investigating the neural mechanisms of androgen action in the regulation of the musculoskeletal system.	Project Lead Associate Professor Rachel Davey	Medicine and Radiology
Is muscle surgery or bone surgery better for young children with cerebral palsy who have hip displacement? The Cerebral Palsy Hip Interventions Project (CP-HIP)	Project Leader Dr Kate Willoughby	Paediatrics
Lifestyle and Prevention	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Mental Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Mice resistant to collagen degradation teach us about skeletal development and arthritis	Project Leader Professor Amanda Fosang	Paediatrics
Mid-Thigh Bone and Muscle Mass Measurements as an Assessment Tool for Diagnosis of Osteoporosis/penia, Sarcopenia and Osteosarcopenia: A Longitudinal Validation Study	Dr Ebrahim Bani Hassan	Medicine and Radiology
Mindfulness, cognitive processes and coping in chronic illness: insights from a study of joint replacement surgery	Professor Peter Choong	Surgery
Molecular Endocrinology and Musculoskeletal Research Group	Group Leader Associate Professor Rachel Davey	Medicine and Radiology
Molecular signalling pathways controlling gene expression during chronic disease progression	Dr Adrian Achuthan	Medicine and Radiology
Multimedia (MyStay) Intervention for managing patient experience (MIME) following total hip replacement surgery: a cluster randomised trial.	Ms Jo McDonall	Surgery
Multimorbidity in Ageing	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Musculoskeletal and Bone Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Musculoskeletal Health: Associations with Inflammation and Social Determinants in Young Adults	Dr. Sharon Brennan	Medicine and Radiology
Neural modelling of epileptic dynamics	Project Lead Dr Andre Peterson	Medicine and Radiology
Novel biological marker combinations to determine physical biological age	Dr Camilla Tuttle	Medicine and Radiology
Optimal Pain Assessment in Joint Replacement Patients	Adjunct A/Prof Maria Inacio A/Prof Michelle Dowsey	Surgery
Optimising Recovery Following Fracture in Older Adults – What Does the Evidence Tell Us?	A/Professor Kerrie Sanders	Medicine and Radiology
Osteosarcopenia in Older Adults Attending a Fracture Liaison Service	Dr David Scott	Medicine and Radiology
Outcomes of Hip Interventions for Children with Cerebral Palsy – An International, Multi-Centre Prospective, Comparative Cohort Study	Project Leader Dr Kate Willoughby	Paediatrics
Postoperative Quality of Recovery	Co-director Colin Royse	Surgery
Pre-clinical Analysis of Effects of Lamin A Overexpression on Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation into Myocytes	Associate Professor Damian Myers	Medicine and Radiology
Pre-Clinical Studies Identifying Novel Molecular Regulators of Skeletal Muscle Growth and Atrophy	Professor Alan Hayes	Medicine and Radiology
Predicting outcomes for people with knee osteoarthritis in general practice	Prof Jane Gunn A/Prof Michelle Dowsey	General Practice
Probing the complexity of cartilage using the Atomic Force Microscope	Dr Cathal O’Connell Dr Romane Blanchard	Surgery
Quality of Life	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Quantitative Measure of Effusions	Associate Professor Keith Lim	Medicine and Radiology
Re-Purposed Pharmacological Agents for Rapid Therapeutic Translation in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy	Professor Alan Hayes	Medicine and Radiology
Refining the comprehensive geriatric assessment	Prof. Kwang Lim	Medicine and Radiology
Reproductive Steroids Research Group	Group Leader Professor Mathis Grossmann, MD, PhD, FRACP	Medicine and Radiology
Research at Epworth	Professor Richard de Steiger
Rheumatology	Group Leader Associate Professor Keith Lim	Medicine and Radiology
Single Event Multilevel Surgery in Bilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy: A Multi-centre, Long-term, Follow-up Study	Project Leader Dr Pam Thomason	Paediatrics
Social determinants of musculoskeletal disease across the lifecourse	Senior Research Fellow Dr Sharon Brennan-Olsen	Western Health
Structural biology of proteins involved in bone diseases	Dr Brett Bennetts	Medicine and Radiology
Surgery Research		Surgery
Synovial Knee Arthritis Research (SKAR)	Professor John Hamilton	Surgery
The actions of the male sex hormone, testosterone, to decrease fat mass.	Project Lead Associate Professor Rachel Davey	Medicine and Radiology
The Arthroplasty and Bariatric Surgery (ABS) Study: a randomised controlled trial of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding prior to total knee arthroplasty	Professor Peter Choong	Surgery
The blood pressure drop makes you fall	Dr. Julian Sacre	Medicine and Radiology
The CGA Study: Development of an evidence based Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment	Professor Andrea B Maier	Medicine and Radiology
The Correlation between Knee Effusions and Clinical Presentation in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis	Associate Professor Keith Lim	Medicine and Radiology
The Effect of Antidepressants on Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteogenesis and Adipogenesis	Professor Gustavo Duque	Medicine and Radiology
The effect of epilepsy on bone	Dr Rhys Brady	Medicine and Radiology
The Gait Outcomes Assessment List (GOAL): Validation of a new measure of gait function for children with cerebral palsy	Project Leader Dr Pam Thomason	Paediatrics
The intra-individual rate of ageing	Prof. Andrea Maier	Medicine and Radiology
The MARKA Study: Maximum Acceptable Risk of complication in total Knee Arthroplasty	Dr Michelle Dowsey	Surgery
The role of a novel GM-CSF-CCL17 pathway in osteoarthritis	A/Prof Andrew Cook	Medicine and Radiology
The role of an aggrecan 32mer fragment in developing osteoarthritis	Project Leader Professor Amanda Fosang	Paediatrics
The SHAPE Study: Nutritional Needs, Physical Function and Sarcopenia in Geriatric Outpatient	Project Lead Professor Andrea B Maier	Medicine and Radiology
Towards a biological geriatric assessment	Dr. Camilla Tuttle	Medicine and Radiology
Type I interferon regulation of macrophage metabolism and activation	Dr Andrew Fleetwood	Medicine and Radiology
Understanding Patient Capacity to Adhere to Prescribed Treatment Regime Post-Fracture	Dr. Sharon Brennan	Medicine and Radiology
Understanding the effect of lower limb torsional deformities in typically developing children and adolescents	Project Leader Dr Morgan Sangeux	Paediatrics
Using health-related quality of life scores as predictor of outcomes and to advance health economic evaluation methodologies in lower limb arthroplasty patients	Michelle Dowsey Philip Clarke	Surgery
Using Wearable Activity Trackers to Monitor Physical Activity in Older Adults Undergoing Exercise Interventions for Falls	Dr David Scott	Medicine and Radiology
Vascular Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Vitamin D deficiency and balance	Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
What controls the development of strong cortical bone?	A/Prof Natalie Sims	Medicine and Radiology
Women's Healthy Ageing Project	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology

104

Neuroscience & Psychiatry

Groups / Projects	Research Lead	Dept / Centre
Nanoparticles and optical stimulation of neurons	A/Prof Paul Stoddart Dr Karina Needham	Surgery
A framework for creating subject-specific mathematical brain models	Project Lead Dr Dean Freestone	Medicine and Radiology
A study of the extracellular vesicles in glioblastoma tissue	Dr Laura Vella	Medicine and Radiology
Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age (AUPOA)		Psychiatry
Accelerated Gene Identification Program (Gene Discovery)	Professor David Amor	Paediatrics
Acid-sensitivity in auditory neurons	Senior Research Fellow Dr Karina Needham	Surgery
Acquired epilepsy in Alzheimer’s disease	Professor Patrick Kwan Group Leader Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Acquired epilepsy in Alzheimer’s disease	Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Australian Centre for Cannabinoid Clinical and Research Excellence (ACRE): Quality and safety in the implementation of medicinal cannabis use in the community	Professor Jane Gunn	General Practice Research
Adolescent2Emerging Adult Development Study	A/Prof Sarah Whittle Dr Julian Simmons	Psychiatry
Advanced Limb Reconstruction	Head of Department of Surgery, St. Vincent's Hospital, Professor Peter Choong	Surgery
Advanced MRI in multiple sclerosis	Dr Scott Kolbe	Medicine and Radiology
Alcohol and striatal adaptation	Professor Andrew Lawrence	Medicine and Radiology
Altered functional and phenotypic characteristics following treatment of age-related macular degeneration	Dr Ben J. Gu	Medicine and Radiology
Alzheimer’s diseases modelling with human cerebral organoids	Associate Professor Alice Pebay	Surgery
Anxiety and neurodegeneration in preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease	Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies	Prof Mark Cook	Medicine and Radiology
ARCADIA: Nutraceutical and Lifestyle Medicine Mental Health Research Group	Group Head and Honorary Principal Research Fellow Professor Jerome Sarris	Psychiatry
Association between Serum Levels of Vitamin D and the Risk of Post-Stroke	Associate Professor Tissa Wijeratne	Medicine and Radiology
Austin Health Research		Psychiatry
Autism Research Team	Laboratory Head Professor Katrina Williams	Paediatrics
Barriers to early epilepsy diagnosis and the impact of diagnostic delay	Dr Anne McIntosh	Medicine and Radiology
Bioenergetics in the optic nerve	Dr Peter van Wijngaarden	Surgery
Biomarkers for brain concussion	Group Leader Dr Sandy Shultz	Medicine and Radiology
Biomarkers for sports concussion	Associate Professor Sandy Shultz	Medicine and Radiology
Biomarkers in younger onset neurocognitive disorders	Professor Dennis Velakoulis Professor Mark Walterfang	Psychiatry
Biomedical Engineering for Cochlear Implants	Senior Research Fellow Dr Carrie Newbold	Surgery
Biophenotypes for Personalised Psychiatry	Prof. Bernhard Baune	Psychiatry
Body Image and Eating Disorders	Chair of Psychiatry St Vincent's Mental Health Unit, Department of Psychiatry Professor David Castle	Psychiatry
Brain cells in a dish: strategies for novel therapeutics in the CDKL5 disorder	Dr Nicole Van Bergen Professor John Christodoulou	Paediatrics
Brain Tumour Biology and Therapies	Head of Research Group Professor Andrew H. Kaye	Surgery
Building Early Attachment and Resiliance (BEAR) - an early intervention for parents and infants	Director, Centre for Women's Mental Health, Royal Women's Hospital Professor Louise Newman	Psychiatry
Carers of People Living with Psychosis	Professor Carol Harvey	Psychiatry
Cellular Reprogramming Group	Senior Research Fellow Dr Raymond Wong	Surgery
Centre for Women’s Mental Health Research		Psychiatry
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in patients with vasospasm secondary to subarachnoid haemorrhage	Dr Alexios Adamides	Surgery
Child and Adolescent Mental Health	Director, Mindful A/Professor Alessandra (Sandra) Radovini	Psychiatry
Chromosome disorders	Professor David Amor	Paediatrics
Circulating microparticles in neurodegenerative diseases	Dr Ben J Gu Prof. James S. Wiley	Medicine and Radiology
Clinical Epilepsy Epidemiology	Research Group Leader Assoc. Prof Wendyl D'Souza	Medicine and Radiology
Clinical Neuropsychiatry	Professor Dennis Velakoulis	Psychiatry
Clinical Neurosciences	Group Leader Professor Mark Cook	Medicine and Radiology
Clinical Trials Research Centre, Centre for Eye Research Australia	Head, Clinical Trials Research Centre Associate Professor Lyndell Lim	Surgery
Clinical utility and cost-effectiveness of genomic sequencing for epilepsy	Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Cocaine and amphetamine regulated transcript in alcohol seeking	Professor Professor Andrew Lawrence	Medicine and Radiology
Cognitive Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Cognitive impairment and its interference with Activities of Daily Living	Dr Julian Sacre	Medicine and Radiology
Movement Disorders and Cognitive monitoring in MS	Group Leader Dr Anneke van der Walt	Medicine and Radiology
Community Study of the Genetics of Autism Spectrum Disorder	Project Lead Professor Ingrid Scheffer	Medicine and Radiology
Context-induced relapse to alcohol-seeking after voluntary abstinence	Professor Andrew Lawrence Dr Erin Campbell	Medicine and Radiology
Control of prosthetic limbs from decoded brain signals	Project Lead Dr Dean Freestone	Medicine and Radiology
Control of prosthetic limbs from decoded brain signals	Project Lead Dr Dean Freestone	Medicine and Radiology
Cytoprotection Pharmacology Research	Professor Greg Dusting	Surgery
Dating Violence, help-seeking and Technology in Australia	Deputy Head of Department Assoc Prof Lena Sanci	General Practice
Depression and Anxiety Neuroscience	Associate Professor Ben Harrison	Psychiatry
Detection of somatic mutations in sporadic epilepsies	Group Leader Professor Sam Berkovic	Medicine and Radiology
Determining predictors of post-partum relapse in women with MS	Project Lead Dr Vilija Jokubaitis	Medicine and Radiology
Development and characterisation of an animal model of neurological heterotopic ossification	Dr Rhys Brady	Medicine and Radiology
Development of a Minimally Invasive Chronic Neural Interface	Group Leaders Dr Nicholas Opie and Dr Thomas Oxley	Medicine and Radiology
Development of a low cost, point-of-care diagnostic platform	Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Development of regenerative therapy for photoreceptor losses using cellular reprogramming technology	Dr Raymond Wong	Surgery
Development of Scaffolds for Restoration of Myotendous Junctions	Project Lead Associate Professor Robert Kapsa	Medicine and Radiology
Development of scaffolds for restoration of myotendous junctions	A/Prof Robert Kapsa	Medicine and Radiology
Diagnosis, Management and Outcomes of Depression in the Primary Care Setting (The Diamond 10-year Cohort Study)	Project Leader Professor Jane Gunn	General Practice
Diet induced obesity: is it an addiction?	Professor Andrew Lawrence	Medicine and Radiology
Discovering differences and similarities between phenotype and biology of twins with autism and children with known genetic problems with a high risk of autism	Project Leader Dr Felicity Klopper	Paediatrics
Discovery of circulating RNA biomarkers in autism	Project Leader Dr Ken Pang	Paediatrics
Disease mechanisms in a novel mouse model of progressive myoclonus epilepsy	Dr Snezana Maljevic	Medicine and Radiology
Disentangling the predictors of depressive symptomatology in multiple sclerosis	A/Prof Tomas Kalincik	Medicine and Radiology
Doctors in Secondary Schools	Deputy Head of Department Assoc Prof Lena Sanci	General Practice
Does stress contribute to epilepsy?	Associate Professor Nigel Jones	Medicine and Radiology
Does sugar really affect cognition?	Associate Professor Nigel Jones	Medicine and Radiology
Driving to Health: A mental health app for taxi drivers	Project Leader Dr Sandra Davidson	General Practice
E-tool for online interactive assessment of young people’s wellbeing	Deputy Head of Department Assoc Prof Lena Sanci	General Practice
Early detection of cognitive decline and disease	Dr Stephen Campbell	Medicine and Radiology
EEG/ MEG network measures as a biomarker in pre-surgical planning for epilepsy patients	Dr Alan Lai	Medicine and Radiology
EEG/MEG network measures as a biomarker in pre-surgical planning for epilepsy patients	Project Lead Dr Andre Peterson	Medicine and Radiology
Effects of Drugs on Cognition-Related Brain Wave Signals in the Rat	Project Lead Dr Chris French	Medicine and Radiology
Effects of Drugs on Cognition-Related Brain Wave Signals in the Rat	Dr Chris French	Medicine and Radiology
Electrophysiological Properties of Human Brain Neuronal Tissue	Project Lead Dr Chris French	Medicine and Radiology
Employment and Vocational Occupation	Director, Psychosocial Research Centre Professor Carol Harvey	Psychiatry
Environmental determinants of disability accumulation in Multiple Sclerosis	Project Lead Dr Vilija Jokubaitis	Medicine and Radiology
Epilepsy and Neuropharmacology	Group Leader Professor Terence O'Brien	Medicine and Radiology
Epilepsy and Precision Medicine	Group Leader Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Epilepsy in twins: the importance of genetic factors	Group Leader Professor Sam Berkovic	Medicine and Radiology
Epilepsy Research Centre	Group Leader Professor Sam Berkovic	Medicine and Radiology
Epileptic Encephalopathies: Finding the cause	Group Leader Professor Ingrid Scheffer	Medicine and Radiology
Epileptic Seizure Forecasting	Dr Dean Freestone	Medicine and Radiology
Epileptic Seizure Forecasting	Project Lead Dr Dean Freestone	Medicine and Radiology
Evaluating health outcomes of transgender children and adolescents	Dr Ken Pang Dr Michelle Tollit	Psychiatry
Evaluating sodium selenate as a new therapy to prevent post-stroke epilepsy and associated neurological impairments	Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa	Medicine and Radiology
Examination of brain structure in schizophrenia subgroups stratified by hallucination types	Dr Vanessa Cropley Dr Tamsyn Van Rheenen	Psychiatry
Examining brain structure in first-episode mania	Dr Tamsyn Van Rheenen Dr Vanessa Cropley	Psychiatry
Examining modifiable risk factors for bipolar disorder: focus on cigarette smoking and the brain	Dr Vanessa Cropley Dr Tamsyn Van Rheenen	Psychiatry
Examining neuropsychological trajectories using data collected from a longitudinal study	Alex Gorelik	Medicine and Radiology
Exploring data from ENROLL-HD - an international observational study in Huntington’s disease	Dr Anita Goh Dr Anita Goh	Psychiatry
Express ambulatory point-of-care molecular diagnosis	Group Leader Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
EXTEND-IA TNK	Group Leader Associate Professor Bruce Campbell	Medicine and Radiology
Factors affecting anxiety disorders in adolescence: social isolation, exercise, and neurogenesis	Associate Professor Jee Hyun Kim	Medicine and Radiology
Family Study of the Genetics of Autism Spectrum Disorder	Project Lead Professor Ingrid Scheffer	Medicine and Radiology
Finding a cure for a devastating form of epilepsy	A/Prof Christopher Reid	Medicine and Radiology
Fragile X syndrome	Professor David Amor	Paediatrics
Frameworks for Health	Chair of Psychiatry, St Vincent's Mental Health Unit, Department of Psychiatry University of Melbourne Professor David Castle	Psychiatry
Functional studies of sodium channel mutations contributing to severe childhood epilepsy	Dr Geza Berecki	Medicine and Radiology
Functional characterisation of a novel gene linked to autism spectrum disorder	A/Professor Paul Lockhart Dr Kiymet Bozaoglu	Paediatrics
Functional characterization of epilepsy-causing mutations	Dr Snezana Maljevic	Medicine and Radiology
Functional Neurological Disorders	Chair of Psychiatry, Austin Health Professor Richard Kanaan	Psychiatry
Gamma oscillations in genetic mouse models of schizophrenia	Dr Dr Matt Hudson	Medicine and Radiology
Gender differences in autism	Project Leader Dr Tamara May	Paediatrics
Gene Discovery in Families with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder	Project Lead Dr Cherie Green	Medicine and Radiology
Gene signatures of the ‘lymphaticome’	Dr Ramin Shayan Dr Tara Karnezis	Surgery
General Practitioners' perceptions of paediatric care	Deputy Head of Department Assoc Prof Lena Sanci	General Practice
Genomics of adverse response to antiepileptic drugs	Group Leader Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Multiple Sclerosis	Project Lead Dr Vilija Jokubaitis	Medicine and Radiology
Glaucoma Research Laboratory	Head Glaucoma Research Laboratory Jonathan Crowston	Surgery
Glucagon secretion in Type 1 diabetes	Project Lead Associate Professor Tony Verberne	Medicine and Radiology
Health outcomes in children conceived using Assisted Reproduction Technologies	Professor David Amor	Paediatrics
Healthy Ageing Program	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Healthy Lifestyles	Group Leader Professor David Castle	Psychiatry
Hearing loss and acidosis in the cochlea	Dr Karina Needham	Surgery
Hearing Neurosciences	Senior Research Fellow Dr Karina Needham	Surgery
Hearing protection in surgery	Dr Hayden Eastwood Prof Stephen O’Leary	Surgery
Hearing Regeneration and Protection	William Gibson Chair of Otolaryngology Professor Stephen O'Leary
High Dose Vitamin D and Post-Stroke Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial	Associate Professor Tissa Wijeratne	Medicine and Radiology
Honorary Appointments’ Research Projects		Surgery
How do Anti-Epileptic Drugs Work?	Project Lead Dr Chris French	Medicine and Radiology
How does aging affect traumatic brain injury pathology and outcomes?	Associate Professor Sandy Shultz	Medicine and Radiology
Human leukocyte antigens (HLA) and its association with skin rashes and drug induced hepatitis: The role of pharmacogenetics to predict anti-epileptic drug side-effect	Group Leader Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
I-DECIDE: Trial of an online healthy relationship tool and safety decision aid for women experiencing domestic violence	Project Leader Professor Kelsey Hegarty	General Practice
Identifying germline and somatic mutations that cause brain malformations and epilepsy	A/Professor Michael Hildebrand	Medicine and Radiology
Imaging	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Immune self-reactivity triggered by carbamazepine-modified HLA-peptide repertoire	Group Leader Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Impact of pregnancy on long-term outcomes in women with multiple sclerosis	Project Lead Dr Vilija Jokubaitis	Medicine and Radiology
Impact of pregnancy on long-term outcomes in women with multiple sclerosis – assessment of mechanism	Project Lead Dr Vilija Jokubaitis	Medicine and Radiology
Improving delivery of RNA therapeutics	Project Leader Dr Ken Pang	Paediatrics
In vitro brain tumour model – studying epileptic seizure development and sensitivity to anti-cancer therapy	Dr Chris French	Medicine and Radiology
In vitro brain tumour model – studying epileptic seizure development and sensitivity to anti-cancer therapy	Project Lead Dr Chris French	Medicine and Radiology
Incidence, prevalence and risk factors for autism. What can we learn from databases and existing administrative data?	Project Leader Dr Tamara May	Paediatrics
INDIGO Study: physical activity and goal-setting intervention for sedentary older adults at risk of cognitive decline	Principal Researcher Professor Nicola Lautenschlager (Melbourne Site)	Psychiatry
Inflammatory markers and cognitive function in schizophrenia	Dr Vanessa Cropley Dr Tamsyn Van Rheenen	Psychiatry
Integrated Mental Health	Research Program Leader A/Prof Victoria Palmer	General Practice
Integrative Neurophysiology	Group Leader Associate Professor Tony Verberne	Medicine and Radiology
Inter-relationship of stated diet adherence and biometric/physical activity trajectories in multiple sclerosis	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
Inter-relationship of stated diet adherence and depression and quality of life in multiple sclerosis	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
Inter-relationship of stated diet adherence and relapse, disability, and fatigue in multiple sclerosis	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
Investigating Alcohol-Related Dementia	Professor Andrew Lawrence	Medicine and Radiology
Investigating microglia as effectors of supragranular cortical thinning in first-episode psychosis	Dr Vanessa Cropley Dr Tamsyn Van Rheenen	Psychiatry
Investigating the effects of GM-CSF and M-CSF derived human macrophages on phagocytosing P. falciparum infected erythrocytes and cytokine production	Dr Adrian Achuthan	Medicine and Radiology
Investigating whether mild traumatic brain injuries cause neurodegenerative disease	Associate Professor Sandy Shultz	Medicine and Radiology
Joint hypermobility in functional neurological disorders	Professor Richard Kanaan	Psychiatry
Jones Laboratory: Epilepsy and Behaviour	Group Leader Associate Professor Nigel Jones	Medicine and Radiology
Latent inhibition during adolescence	Associate Professor Jee Hyun Kim	Medicine and Radiology
Lifestyle and Prevention	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Link-me: A randomised controlled trial of a systematic model of stepped mental health care in general practice	Link-me Trial Lead Investigator Professor Jane Gunn	General Practice Research
Linking brain activity to behaviour: neural oscillations and cognition	Dr Nigel Jones	Medicine and Radiology
Long-term outcome of newly diagnosed epilepsy	Group Leader Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Long-term Prognosis of Antiepilpetic Drug Therapy in People with Newly Diagnosed and Treated Epilepsy	Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Longitudinal predictors & characteristics of diet engagement in multiple sclerosis	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
Longitudinal predictors & characteristics of OMS engagement in multiple sclerosis	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
Longitudinal predictors of cognitive performance in bipolar disorder	Dr Tamsyn Van Rheenen	Psychiatry
Longitudinal trajectories of medication use and relationship with clinical features in multiple sclerosis	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
Longitudinal trajectories of smoking, alcohol and other health behaviours and relationship with clinical features in multiple sclerosis	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
Longitudinal trajectory of medical comorbidities & relationship with clinical outcomes	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
Macular Research Unit	Professor Robyn Guymer	Surgery
Management and prognosis of first seizure and newly diagnosed epilepsy	Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Mapping the human connectome in psychosis	Dr Vanessa Cropley	Psychiatry
Measuring whole brain activity during behaviour	Associate Professor Lucy Palmer	Medicine and Radiology
Mechanisms and treatment of noise induced hearing loss	Dr Hayden Eastwood Prof Stephen O’Leary	Surgery
Mechanisms of anxiety risk across development and sex	A/Prof Sarah Whittle	Psychiatry
Mechanisms of epileptogenesis and drug resistance	Group Leader Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Mechanisms of voltage-gated sodium channel inhibition by phrixotoxin	Dr Geza Berecki	Medicine and Radiology
Medical devices development	Group Leader Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Melbourne Clinic Research		Psychiatry
Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Congenital Deafness Flagship	Professor David Amor	Paediatrics
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre Research		Psychiatry
Mental Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Meta-cognition training in older adults with subjective cognitive decline	Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs	Psychiatry
Methodological quality and evidence synthesis in cognitive interventions for the prevention of dementia in older adults	Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs Dr Amit Lampit	Psychiatry
Mindful Research		Psychiatry
Mindfulness, cognitive processes and coping in chronic illness: insights from a study of joint replacement surgery	Professor Peter Choong	Surgery
Mitochondria and Neurodegeneration Group	Associate Professor Ian A Trounce	Surgery
Modelling Epilepsy and Epilepsy Drug Effects–Computational Neuroscience Project	Project Lead Dr Chris French	Medicine and Radiology
Molecular Epilepsy	Group Leader Dr Kim Powell	Medicine and Radiology
Motor Control and Rehabilitation	Group Leader Professor Mary Galea	Medicine and Radiology
MS and Comorbidities Team	Dr Anneke van der Walt	Medicine and Radiology
MS Biology, Genomics and Prognostics Group	Group Leader Dr Vilija Jokubaitis	Medicine and Radiology
Multi-modal interrogation of the brain using functionalised carbon micro-yarns	Dr Nick Apollo	Medicine and Radiology
Multimorbidity in Ageing	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Multiphoton imaging of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived brainoids	Dr Snezana Maljevic	Medicine and Radiology
Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Clinical Research Group	Group Leader Professor Helmut Butzkueven	Medicine and Radiology
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Genetics of Neurodisability	Research Group Leader Professor David Amor	Paediatrics
Muscarinic Receptor Deficits in Schizophrenia	Professor Richard Kanaan	Psychiatry
Musculoskeletal and Bone Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Neural Dynamics Laboratory	Group Leader Dr Chris French	Medicine and Radiology
Neural Engineering and Brain Dynamics	Co-Group Leaders Dr Dean Freestone & Dr Andre Peterson	Medicine and Radiology
Neural modelling of epileptic dynamics	Project Lead Dr Andre Peterson	Medicine and Radiology
Neural modelling of epileptic dynamics	Project Lead Dr Andre Peterson	Medicine and Radiology
Neurodevelopmental Genomics Research	Laboratory Head Professor John Christodoulou Professor John Christodoulou	Paediatrics
Neuroimaging	Group Leader Professor Patricia Desmond	Medicine and Radiology
Neuroimaging in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders	Dr Vanessa Cropley Professor Christos Pantelis	Psychiatry
Neurological soft signs and neurodevelopment in schizophrenia and their unaffected first-degree relatives	Dr Vanessa Cropley A/Prof Andrew Zalesky	Psychiatry
Neuropathological MRI: informing in-vivo brain imaging with ultra-high resolution MRI and histology	Dr Scott Kolbe	Medicine and Radiology
Neuropharmacological strategies for disease modification and prevention of the development of epilepsy.	Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa	Medicine and Radiology
Neuroregeneration	Professor Alice Pébay	Surgery
Neurotrauma and Stroke	Group Leader Dr Carli L Roulston	Medicine and Radiology
Neurotrophins - how do they influence neural firing and ion channels?	Senior Research Fellow Dr Karina Needham	Surgery
Ocular Biomarkers, Bioenergetics and Angiogenesis Research Group	Head of Laboratory Dr Peter van Wijngaarden	Surgery
Ocular Genetics	Head, Ocular Genetics Professor Paul N Baird	Surgery
Olfactory-focused cognitive training	Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs	Psychiatry
Ophthalmic Epidemiology Group	Professor of Ophthalmic Epidemiology Professor Mingguang He	Surgery
Optical assessment of neuronal networks' function	Dr Timothy Karle	Medicine and Radiology
Pacemaker channels and brain excitability	A/Prof Christopher Reid	Medicine and Radiology
PARTY (Prevention Access Risk Taking in Young People)	Deputy Head of Department Assoc Prof Lena Sanci	General Practice
Personalised Clinical Trials in Psychiatry	Prof. Bernhard Baune	Psychiatry
Personalised surgical rehearsal with virtual reality simulation to improve efficiency in the operating theatre	Dr Sudanthi Wijewickrema Prof Stephen O’Leary	Surgery
Petrovski Laboratory: Computational Genomics	Group Leader Dr Slavé Petrovski	Medicine and Radiology
Pharmacogenomic studies in Multiple Sclerosis	Project Lead Dr Vilija Jokubaitis	Medicine and Radiology
Plasma biomarkers for epileptogenesis and epileptic seizures	Dr Idrish Ali	Medicine and Radiology
Postoperative Quality of Recovery	Co-director Colin Royse	Surgery
Prediction of long-term disease outcomes in people with Multiple Sclerosis or Clinically Isolated Syndromes	Project Lead Dr Vilija G. Jokubaitis	Medicine and Radiology
Predictors and mechanisms of cutaneous adverse drug reactions: a multi-omic approach	Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Prospective relationship of diet and relapse, disability & fatigue in multiple sclerosis	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
Prospective relationship of mastery & depression and quality of life in multiple sclerosis	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
Prospective relationship of mastery & relapse, disability and fatigue in multiple sclerosis	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
Prospective relationship of physical activity/BMI and relapse, disability, and fatigue in multiple sclerosis	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
PROSPER: PRevalence Of unwanted Sexual contact: Pursuing Early Recognition	Project Leader Dr Laura Tarzia	General Practice
Proteomic profiles of psychotic symptom severity	Senior Research Fellow Dr Chad Bousman	Psychiatry
Psychiatric Biomarker and Pharmacogenomics	Prof. Bernhard Baune	Psychiatry
Psychological distress associated with gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with anorexia nervosa	Dr Simon Knowles Dr Lara McCartney	Psychiatry
Psychosis & Developmental Neuropsychiatry	Professor Christos Pantelis	Psychiatry
Psychosis and Sczhophrenia	Chair of Psychiatry, St Vincent's Mental Health Unit, Department of Psychiatry University of Melbourne Professor David Castle	Psychiatry
Psychosocial Research Group	Head of Group Professor Carol Harvey	Psychiatry
Quality of Life	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
RAndomised trial to imProve the quality of lIfe of people with Dementia (RAPID)	Principal Researcher rofessor Nicola Lautenschlager (Melbourne Site)	Psychiatry
Rebooting the brain after stroke with electrical stimulation to promote functional recovery	Project Leader Dr Carli L Roulston	Medicine and Radiology
Refining the comprehensive geriatric assessment	Prof. Kwang Lim	Medicine and Radiology
Relationship of mastery trajectory and change in health behaviours in multiple sclerosis	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
Rett Syndrome and related genes	Project Leader Dr Nicole van Bergen	Paediatrics
Ripple	Director, Psychosocial Research Centre Professor Carol Harvey	Psychiatry
Risk identification and Risk Assessment Framework	Project Leader Professor Kelsey Hegarty	General Practice
Role of calcitonin receptor in stressed cells and diseased tissues: a new paradigm based on expression in the pre-apoptotic cell stress response	Group Leader Dr Peter J Wookey	Medicine and Radiology
Safe Mothers, Safe Babies - Promoting safety and early parenting in high-risk relationships	Director, Centre for Women's Mental Health, Royal Women's Hospital Professor Louise Newman	Psychiatry
Satellite imaging technology to detect the early signs of glaucoma and Alzheimer’s disease in the retina	Dr Peter van Wijngaarden	Surgery
Saving Brain and Changing Practice in Stroke	Project Lead Professor Stephen Davis	Medicine and Radiology
Search early diagnosis biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease	Dr Ben J Gu	Medicine and Radiology
Self-help for Depression and Diabetes-related Distress in People With Type 2 Diabetes (SpringboarD)	Project Leader (University of Melbourne) Professor Jane Gunn	General Practice
Semple Laboratory: Developmental Neurotrauma	Group Leader Dr Bridgette Semple	Medicine and Radiology
Sexual Abuse and Family Violence: SAFE	Research Program Leader Professor Kelsey Hegarty	General Practice
Simultaneous physical and cognitive exercise in older adults	Dr Amit Lampit Dr Amit Lampit	Psychiatry
Single pulse electrical stimulation for epilepsy monitoring and tuning of DBS therapy	Project Lead Dr Dean Freestone	Medicine and Radiology
Single pulse electrical stimulation for epilepsy monitoring and tuning of DBS therapy	Project Lead Dr Dean Freestone	Medicine and Radiology
Single Session Family Consultation	Director, Psychosocial Research Centre Professor Carol Harvey	Psychiatry
Social Affective Neurodevelopment (SAND)	Associate Professor Sarah Whittle	Psychiatry
Sodium Channels in Epilepsy	Dr Chris French	Medicine and Radiology
Speech biometrics in Multiple Sclerosis	A/Prof Adam Vogel	Medicine and Radiology
St Vincent's Mental Health Research		Psychiatry
Stroke Biomarker Study; Role of Infections and Ischemic Stroke	Associate Professor Tissa Wijeratne	Medicine and Radiology
Stroke Imaging and Treatment	Group Leader Associate Professor Bruce Campbell	Medicine and Radiology
Stroke Research Group	Group Leader Professor Stephen Davis	Medicine and Radiology
Structural biology of proteins involved in mental illnesses	Prof Michael Parker	Medicine and Radiology
Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)	Project Lead Associate Professor Doug Crompton	Medicine and Radiology
Investigating molecular and physiological determinants of Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy in acquired and genetic animal models of epilepsy	Group Leader Dr Kim Powell	Medicine and Radiology
Survey of High Impact Psychosis (SHIP)	Director, Psychosocial Research Centre Professor Carol Harvey	Psychiatry
Systems Neuropsychiatry	Associate Professor Andrew Zalesky	Psychiatry
Targeting Astrogliosis to promote recovery after stroke	Group Leader Dr Carli L Roulston	Medicine and Radiology
TBI, Neurodegenerative Disease, and Proteinopathies	Group Leader Dr Sandy Shultz	Medicine and Radiology
Test-retest and practice effects in common cognitive measures in older adults with and without cognitive impairment	Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs	Medicine and Radiology
The central amygdala endogenous opioid system in salt appetite	Professor Andrew Lawrence	Medicine and Radiology
The Collaborative AuTism Study (CATS)	Professor Ingrid Scheffer	Medicine and Radiology
The CORE Study	Project Leader Dr Victoria Palmer	General Practice
The effect of anxiety on cardiovascular risk in healthy ageing women	Prof Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
The effect of polytrauma on TBI outcomes, and identifying novel treatment strategies	Group Leader Dr Sandy Shultz	Medicine and Radiology
The human microbiome in gut, oral and mental health	Dr Julian G Simmons	Psychiatry
The Link Project	Deputy Head of Department Assoc Prof Lena Sanci	General Practice
The modulation of sensory perception by the prefrontal cortex	Associate Professor Lucy Palmer	Medicine and Radiology
The neural basis of learning	Associate Professor Lucy Palmer	Medicine and Radiology
The Neuropsychiatry of Androgen Deprivation	Chair of Psychiatrry Austin Health Professor Richard Kanaan	Psychiatry
The Psychosocial Health and Wellbeing Research (emPoWeR) Unit	Research Group Leader Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
The role of NMDA NR2B signalling in fear memory erasure in juvenile rats	Associate Professor Jee Hyun Kim	Medicine and Radiology
The role of the ubiquitin proteasome system in schizophrenia	Group Leader Professor Ian Everall	Psychiatry
The Stand Up & Go Study: Physical activity and sitting time reduction program for older community members	Principal Researcher Professor Nicola Lautenschlager (Melbourne Site)	Psychiatry
The Target-D Trial	Project Leader Professor Jane Gunn	General Practice
Therapeutic Innovations in Affective Disorders	Healthscope Chair of Psychiatry Professor Chee Ng	Psychiatry
Towards a patient-specific examination of epileptogenesis	Project Lead Dr Andre Peterson	Medicine and Radiology
Towards a patient-specific examination of epileptogenesis	Prof Mark Cook	Medicine and Radiology
Trans Medical Research Fund - Improving Transgender Health	Dr Ada Cheung	Medicine and Radiology
Translational Traumatic Brain Injury Laboratory	Group Leader Dr Sandy Schultz	Medicine and Radiology
Treatment Gap in People with Newly Diagnosed Epilepsy in Australia	Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
Trying to stop Sudden Unexpected Death in EPilepsy (SUDEP)	A/Prof Christopher Reid	Medicine and Radiology
UDP - Victoria	Project Leader Professor John Christodoulou	Paediatrics
Uncovering the role of extracellular vesicles in Frontotemporal Dementia	Dr Laura Vella	Medicine and Radiology
Understanding neurotransmitter system dysfunction in schizophrenia	Dr Andrea Gogos	Medicine and Radiology
Understanding rab39b-mediated parkinson's disease	A/Professor Paul Lockhart Dr Kiymet Bozaoglu	Paediatrics
Understanding the outcomes, including their language, participation and quality of life, of children with autism	Project Leader Prof Katrina Williams	Paediatrics
Undestanding trajectories and biological underpinnings of children with autism who lose skills	Project Leader Veronica Rose	Paediatrics
Using systematic reviews to understand prognosis, diagnosis and effective interventions for children with neurodevelopmental difference and disability	Project Leader Dr Kristine Egberts	Paediatrics
Validation of diet engagement against dietary intake in multiple sclerosis	Dr Steve Simpson, Jr.	Medicine and Radiology
Vascular Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Virtual reality and surgery	Dr Sudanthi Wijewickrema Prof Stephen O’Leary	Surgery
Wearable devices for non-invasive, ambulatory seizure monitoring and prediction	Professor Patrick Kwan	Medicine and Radiology
WITH: Women’s Input to a Trauma-informed systems model of care in Health settings	Primary Investigator Professor Kelsey Hegarty	General Practice
Women's Healthy Ageing Project	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology

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Women's Health

Groups / Projects	Research Lead	Dept / Centre
A pilot trial of innovative communication approaches in clinical care to promote health literacy for women with low English proficiency	Dr Jane Yelland	General Practice
A Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence		General Practice Research
Abnormal Placental Stem Cells And Their Role In Human Pregnancy Pathologies	Dr Bill Kalionis	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Advancing vaccine development for infectious diseases: bioinformatics, antibody engineering, immunoassay development and human cohort studies	Dr Jack Richards	Medicine and Radiology
Analysis of gene regulations on gonocyte transformation into spermatogonial stem cells	Dr Ruili Li Professor John Hutson	Paediatrics
Antibody to PfEMP1: role in immunity to malaria in children and pregnant women	Group Leader Professor Stephen Rogerson	Medicine and Radiology
Anxiety and neurodegeneration in preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease	Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Associations between domestic violence in pregnancy and women’s and their subsequent children’s outcomes	Ashlee Smith Dr Anna Price	Paediatrics
Australians’ expectations of personal genomics: the GeNIOz project		Paediatrics
Beyond Silence	Project Leader Dr Laura Tarzia	General Practice
Biomarkers of human papillomavirus-related cancers	Dr Alyssa Cornall	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Bone and Mineral Research Group	Group Leader Professor John D Wark	Medicine and Radiology
Bone strength in young healthy females, older patients with low-trauma fracture and older healthy adults: peripheral quantitative computed tomography based finite element analysis	Group Leader Prof. John D Wark	Medicine and Radiology
Building Early Attachment and Resiliance (BEAR) - an early intervention for parents and infants	Director, Centre for Women's Mental Health, Royal Women's Hospital Professor Louise Newman	Psychiatry
Can dietary phytophenols improve pregnancy outcomes?	Associate Professor Martha Lappas	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Centre for Women’s Mental Health Research		Psychiatry
Cognitive Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Dating Violence, help-seeking and Technology in Australia	Deputy Head of Department Assoc Prof Lena Sanci	General Practice
Defining the regulators of embryo implantation to facilitate IVF success	Professor Peter Rogers	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Developing and commercialising new diagnostic tests for tropical infectious diseases	Dr Jack Richards	Medicine and Radiology
Developing epigenetic biomarkers and treatments for the pregnancy disorder preeclampsia.	Professor Peter Rogers Professor Eva Dimitriadis	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Developing field-based tools and health systems for malaria elimination	Dr Jack Richards	Medicine and Radiology
Development and evaluation of guidelines and an intervention for moving on from IVF in women with a low chance of success	Project Lead Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Discovering the mechanisms and targets of immunity against malaria	Prof James Beeson	Medicine and Radiology
Does weekly iron supplementation increase iron uptake in pregnant Vietnamese women, and improve maternal and infant health?	Group Leader Professor Beverley-Ann Biggs	Medicine and Radiology
Early detection of cognitive decline and disease	Dr Stephen Campbell	Medicine and Radiology
Early intervention with men who use violence (eMATE)	Project Leader Professor Kelsey Hegarty	General Practice
Eggsurance? Making decisions about elective egg freezing	Dr Michelle Peate Prof Martha Hickey	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Endometriosis: Characterising genetic risk, disease pathogenesis and unexplored therapeutic opportunities.	Dr Sarah Holdsworth-Carson Dr Jacqui Donoghue	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
EndoNeeds: exploring the physical, psychological and social needs of Australian women with endometriosis	Dr Michelle Peate Dr Jennifer Marino	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
EndoNeeds: Investigating the unmet physical, psychological and social needs of Australian women with endometriosis.	Project Lead Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Epigenetic regulators of endometrial cancer as new treatment targets to halt metastatic spread.	Professor Peter Rogers Professor Eva Dimitriadis	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Examining neuropsychological trajectories using data collected from a longitudinal study	Alex Gorelik	Medicine and Radiology
Experiences and priorities of women living with ovarian cancer	Dr Jennifer Marino Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Fertility After Cancer Predictor (FoRECAsT) Study	Project Lead Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Fertility preservation in children and teenagers with cancer	Senior Lecturer Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Fetal Welfare Assessment	Director Prof Shaun Brennecke	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Genetics Education and Health Research	Research Group Leader Professor Sylvia Metcalfe	Paediatrics
Group pregnancy care for women of refugee background: a qualitative study examining the experiences of multidisciplinary provider teams	Dr Jane Yelland	General Practice
Group Pregnancy Care: improving access, health literacy and social inclusion	Dr Elisha Riggs	General Practice
Gynaecology Research Centre	Professor Women's Health Research Professor Peter Rogers	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Healthy Ageing Program	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies in Papua New Guinea – The impact of nutrition, malaria, and other infections on pregnant women and infants	Prof. James Beeson	Medicine and Radiology
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies: Maternal metabolic disturbances, inflammation, and poor nutrition and their impact on pregnancy outcomes	Dr Philippe Boeuf	Medicine and Radiology
Hickey Research Group		Obstetrics and Gynaecology
How is hair cortisol related to mother's mental health and wellbeing over time?	Prof Sharon Goldfeld Dr Anna Price	Paediatrics
I-DECIDE: Trial of an online healthy relationship tool and safety decision aid for women experiencing domestic violence	Project Leader Professor Kelsey Hegarty	General Practice
Identification of novel vaccine targets that induce protective immunity against malaria	Gaoqian Feng	Medicine and Radiology
Imaging	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Improving Vitamin D status and related health in young women: The Safe-D study – Part B	Group Leader Prof. John D Wark	Medicine and Radiology
Innate immune responses to Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes	Group Leader Professor Stephen Rogerson	Medicine and Radiology
International and Immigrant Health	Group Leader Professor Beverley-Ann Biggs	Medicine and Radiology
Investigating current and future education and training needs of the Australian workforce in genomic medicine		Paediatrics
Investigating maternal tolerance and pregnancy complications to develop biomarkers and treatment options.	Professor Peter Rogers Dr Ellen Menkhorst	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Investigating the effects of GM-CSF and M-CSF derived human macrophages on phagocytosing P. falciparum infected erythrocytes and cytokine production	Dr Adrian Achuthan	Medicine and Radiology
Iron and Fatigue	Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Is there a role for adipose (fat) tissue in malaria?	Project Lead Dr Elizabeth Aitken	Medicine and Radiology
Labour & Delivery	Research Clinician Dr Penny Sheehan	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Life-long exposures for Healthy Ageing	Alex Gorelik	Medicine and Radiology
Lifestyle and Prevention	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Lifestyle Factors for Healthy Ageing	Prof Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Long-term health and social implications of risk-taking in adolescence	Dr Jennifer Marino	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Low Literacy Decision Aid about Reproductive Choices for Younger Women with Breast Cancer	Project Lead Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Malaria drug resistance in the Asia Pacific region	Associate Professor Freya Fowkes	Medicine and Radiology
Menstrual concerns in young women: the father's perspective (DADs Study)	Senior Lecturer Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
MenstrualNeeds Study: Exploring the physical, psychological and social needs of adolescent girls with heavy menstrual bleeding and pain	Dr Michelle Peate Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Mental Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Mercy Hospital Perinatal Research Group	Head of Research Group Professor Sue Walker	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Molecular Microbiology and Reproductive Health Research Group	Honorary, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Royal Women's Hospital/Mercy Professor Suzanne M. Garland	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Multimorbidity in Ageing	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Multimorbidity and ageing women	Alex Gorelik	Medicine and Radiology
MUM SIZE Study	Head of Research Program Professor David Story	Centre for Integrated Critical Care
Musculoskeletal and Bone Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Obstetrics, Nutrition and Endocrinology Group	Associate Professor Martha Lappas	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Paediatric and Adolescent Fertility Preservation Taskforce	Senior Lecturer Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Physical Activities for Healthy Ageing	Prof Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Postnatal complications among women in Papua New Guinea	Dr Chris Morgan Dr Alyce Wilson	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Pre-eclampsia - Eclampsia	Director Prof Shaun Brennecke	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Predicition of ovarian malignancy in children with ovarian cysts	Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Prenatal testing: a longitudinal study - the PeTALS project	Project Leader Dr Jan Hodgson	Paediatrics
Preterm Labour	Senior Research Fellow Dr Harry Georgiou	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Preventing gestational diabetes	Associate Professor Martha Lappas	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Priorities and Needs of Women Living with Advanced Cancer	Project Lead Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
PROSPER: PRevalence Of unwanted Sexual contact: Pursuing Early Recognition	Project Leader Dr Laura Tarzia	General Practice
Psychological distress associated with gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with anorexia nervosa	Dr Simon Knowles Dr Lara McCartney	Psychiatry
Quality of Life	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Restacking The Odds: Understanding The Barriers And Solutions To Antenatal Care Participation	Professor Sharon Goldfeld	Paediatrics
Risk factors for Violence in Australian Women – A twenty year follow up Study	Dr Melissa Coulson	Medicine and Radiology
Risk identification and Risk Assessment Framework	Project Leader Professor Kelsey Hegarty	General Practice
Rogerson Laboratory: Pathogenesis of malaria and immunity in children and pregnant women	Group Leader Professor Stephen Rogerson	Medicine and Radiology
Royal Women's Hospital Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine Pregnancy Research Centre	Director Prof Shaun Brennecke	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Rural Health Academic Network (RHAN)	Director, Rural Health Academic Network Dr Helen Haines	Rural Health
Safe Mothers, Safe Babies - Promoting safety and early parenting in high-risk relationships	Director, Centre for Women's Mental Health, Royal Women's Hospital Professor Louise Newman	Psychiatry
Serial Evaluation of Cardiac and Vascular Function in Preeclampsia: Full Recovery or Persistent LV Contractile Impairment?	Professor Joanne Said	Medicine and Radiology
Sexual Abuse and Family Violence: SAFE	Research Program Leader Professor Kelsey Hegarty	General Practice
Sexual and Reproductive Health in Adolescence	Director of Research Training Professor Meredith Temple-Smith	General Practice
Sexual dysfunction in women who have experienced cancer	Dr Jennifer Marino Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Social and physical activities in ageing women	Dr Melissa Coulson	Medicine and Radiology
Spermtyping – Single cell analysis of the generation of genetic diversity via DNA repair pathways	Dr Wayne Crismani	Medicine and Radiology
Structural biology of proteins involved in infection	Dr Craig Morton	Medicine and Radiology
Supporting fertility presentation decisions in women with breast cancer	Dr Michelle Peate A/Prof Lesley Stafford	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Surgical experience in paediatric gynaecology	Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
SUSTAIN: Sustainability of Identification and Response to Family Violence in antenatal care	Project Leader Professor Kelsey Hegarty	General Practice
The effect of anxiety on cardiovascular risk in healthy ageing women	Prof Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
The Evaluation of a Decision Aid for Women Considering Non-medical Egg Freezing	Project Lead Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
The human microbiome in gut, oral and mental health	Dr Julian G Simmons	Psychiatry
The prognosis/diagnosis of common pregnancy complications utilising genetic material found in extracellular vesicles derived from maternal blood and urine.	DR Bill Kalionis Dr Harry Georgiou	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
The Psychosocial Health and Wellbeing Research (emPoWeR) Unit	Research Group Leader Dr Michelle Peate	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Timely antenatal care for women and newborns in rural Papua New Guinea (PNG)	Dr Chris Morgan Dr Michelle Scoullar and Alyce Wilson	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Translational Obstetrics Group	Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Professor Stephen Tong	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Understanding the genetic basis of lipedema	Dr Ramin Shayan Dr Tara Karnezis	Surgery
Understanding the pathogenesis of gestational diabetes	Associate Professor Martha Lappas	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Understanding what triggers birth? New opportunities for prevention of early delivery	Associate Professor Martha Lappas	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Unexplained recurrent miscarriage and effect of commonly used treatments: effects in immune cells and endometrial receptivity.	Professor Peter Rogers Dr Ellen Menkhorst	Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Unravelling the genetic cause of Premature Ovarian Insufficiency	Doctor Elena Tucker Professor Andrew Sinclair	Paediatrics
Validating a generic mood question in a large cohort of Australian women	Prof Lynn Kemp Dr Anna Price	Paediatrics
Vascular Health	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Vitamin D deficiency and balance	Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
What does it cost to do research with women experiencing adversity?	Prof Sharon Goldfeld Dr Anna Price	Paediatrics
What kind of antibody response to women need to be protected from placental malaria?	Elizabeth Aitken	Medicine and Radiology
WITH: Women’s Input to a Trauma-informed systems model of care in Health settings	Primary Investigator Professor Kelsey Hegarty	General Practice
Women's Healthy Ageing Project	Group Leader Professor Cassandra Szoeke	Medicine and Radiology
Impact of risk-reducing bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy on non-cancer outcomes in young high-risk women: a multicentre prospective study.	Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne, The Royal Women's Hospital Professor Martha Hickey	Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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