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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 1 – 6 of 7 Projects  
Deep mutational scanning to characterise MLKL’s killer 4HB domain
  • Student Research
Project Type:
Graduate Research Masters/Honours/Masters by Coursework/PhD
Supervisors(s):
A/Prof Melissa Call, Prof James Murphy, Katherine Davies
Diseases:
Inflammatory bowel disease, Asthma
Area:
Infection, Cell death, Inflammation
Technology:
Structural biology, Computational biology
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Novel biomarkers to improve cancer outcomes
  • Student Research
Project Type:
Honours/PhD
Supervisors(s):
A/Prof Tracy Putoczki
Diseases:
Cancer, Pancreatic cancer
Area:
Cancer biology
Technology:
Artificial intelligence and machine learning, Bioinformatics, Computational biology
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Analysis of non-coding gene regulatory element function in the human immune system
  • Student Research
Project Type:
Graduate Research Masters/Honours/Masters by Coursework/PhD
Supervisors(s):
Dr Hamish King, Davide Vespasiani
Diseases:
Autoinflammatory diseases
Area:
Infection, Inflammation, Epigenetics
Technology:
Bioinformatics, Computational biology, Genomics
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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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Building a cell history recorder using synthetic biology for longitudinal patient monitoring
  • Student Research
Project Type:
Graduate Research Masters/Honours/Masters by Coursework/PhD
Diseases:
Cancer
Area:
Immunology, Cell signalling, Inflammation
Technology:
Genomics, Structural biology, Computational biology, Artificial intelligence and machine learning
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