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Exercise in the management of liver fibro-inflammation in people with type 2 diabetes and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)
Examine the benefits of exercise on liver fibro-inflammation in people with type 2 diabetes who also have MASLD. Explore how exercise can be maintained long term to support sustained health benefits.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Shelley Keating and Associate Professor Jeff Coombes
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Health workforce crisis: understanding political capacity for policy change
Develop new knowledge of the political factors that constrain and enable policymaking to address the health workforce crisis through comparative analysis of health worker interest groups.
- Supervisor
- Dr Adam Hannah
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Human society
Identifying downstream effectors of a venous specific adhesion pathway
Apply high-end live imaging of zebrafish and 3D human micro-vessels to functionally analyse new players in vessel-specific adhesion control.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Anne Lagendijk
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Improving Quality of Survival for Women with Gynaecological Cancer
Focus on improving quality of life, health & function during & after gynaecological cancer treatment, with a focus on biomarker research, implementation research and cancer survivorship.
- Supervisor
- Professor Andreas Obermair
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Integrating single-cell genomics with complex disease genetics
Single-cell genomics enables cellular insight into disease biology. Develop statistical methods integrating single-cell and disease data to uncover mechanisms and improve risk prediction.
- Supervisor
- Dr Jian Zeng
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Mechanobiology and molecular drivers of colon cancer in 3D organoid models
Use advanced 3D organoid models, molecular engineering, and quantitative live-cell microscopy to uncover how mechanical and molecular cues drive colon cancer initiation, growth, and progression.
- Supervisor
- Dr Robert Ju
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
Optimising physical environments in early childhood services for children’s development
Explore how the places and physical environments of early childhood services, from green sites to multi-storey centres, shape children’s development and wellbeing.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Sally Staton
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Education, Health sciences, Psychology
Profiling Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Immunity
Develop immunity-guided strategies to evaluate/develop AML mRNA vaccine discovery pipelines.
- Supervisor
- Dr Kelvin Tuong
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
ROIDCheck: Reducing illicit steROID harms through drug Checking services
Work alongside the world’s first steroid and enhancement drug checking program (ROIDCheck) to study illicit steroid markets, health risks, and co-designed harm reduction interventions.
- Supervisor
- Dr Timothy Piatkowski
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Understanding threats to native stingless bees
Study Australian stingless bees using an interdisciplinary approach of ecophysiological, genetic and social/philosophical methods to understand threats and ethical research on culturally significant species.
- Supervisor
- Dr Coen Hird
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Environmental sciences, Indigenous studies, Philosophy and religious studies