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Student research projects

We offer diverse opportunities for students to join our research teams. Our student projects enable students to develop a range of skills in medical research, through tackling important research questions with the support of experienced mentors.
Showing 43 – 48 of 69 Projects  
Improving maternal and childhood health in low income settings
  • Student Research
Project Type:
Graduate Research Masters/Honours/Masters by Coursework/PhD
Supervisors(s):
Prof Sant-Rayn Pasricha
Diseases:
Breast cancer, Anaemia, Malaria
Area:
Healthy development, Global health, Infection, Immunology, Inflammation, Epigenetics
Technology:
Genomics, Bioinformatics, Computational biology, Flow cytometry
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Disorders of red blood cell and iron physiology
  • Student Research
Project Type:
Graduate Research Masters/Honours/Masters by Coursework/PhD
Supervisors(s):
Prof Sant-Rayn Pasricha
Diseases:
Malaria, Anaemia
Area:
Immunology, Infection, Healthy development, Global health, Inflammation
Technology:
Bioinformatics, Computational biology, Genomics, Flow cytometry, Imaging
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Improving targeted therapies for hard-to-treat blood cancers
  • Student Research
Project Type:
PhD
Supervisors(s):
A/Prof Gemma Kelly, Dr Eddie La Marca, Dr Sarah Diepstraten
Diseases:
Cancer, Blood cancers, Lymphoma
Area:
Cancer biology, Cell death
Technology:
Imaging
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Structural insights into the mechanism of chromatin remodellers
  • Student Research
Project Type:
Graduate Research Masters/Honours/Masters by Coursework
Supervisors(s):
A/Prof Shabih Shakeel
Diseases:
Cancer, Leukaemia, Neurodegenerative disorders
Area:
Healthy ageing, Epigenetics
Technology:
Genomics, Structural biology, Proteomics
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Targeting cell death pathways in tissue-resident immune cells to correct metabolic and gastrointestinal disease
  • Student Research
Project Type:
Honours/Masters by Coursework/PhD
Supervisors(s):
Dr Lucille Rankin, Prof Daniel Gray
Diseases:
Autoinflammatory diseases, Type 2 diabetes, Inflammatory bowel disease
Area:
Immunology, Infection, Inflammation
Technology:
Flow cytometry, Bioinformatics, Imaging, Genomics
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Exploiting malarial invasion proteins for novel malaria vaccines
  • Student Research
Project Type:
Honours/Masters by Coursework/PhD
Supervisors(s):
Dr Stephen Scally, Prof Alan Cowman AC
Diseases:
Malaria
Area:
Infection, Immunology
Technology:
Vaccine development, Structural biology
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