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mRNA cancer vaccines
Involve design and testing of personalised mRNA cancer vaccines that can provoke robust and durable immune responses.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Seth Cheetham
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
New scalable organic synthesis methods based on electrolysis
Work on a project dealing with the development of novel synthetic electrochemical methods and their transfer to scalable flow systems.
- Supervisor
- Dr David Cantillo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences
Charting the ultrasound-facilitated voyage of a novel anti-tau antibody compared to a tau-targeted fusion protein into the brain using NanoSIMS
Use the latest imaging and mass spectrometry techniques to decipher how 2 tau protein drugs travel through an ultrasound-opened blood-brain barrier to finally engage with their target.
- Supervisor
- Professor Jurgen Götz
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Consequences of blood-brain barrier dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease on therapeutic drug delivery
Investigate using patient-derived stem cell models how blood-brain barrier (BBB) dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease affects drug delivery efficiency into the brain.
- Supervisor
- Professor Brett Collins
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
Development of CLEIM Pipeline for Multi-Scale Analysis in Alzheimer's Disease Research
Establish correlative light-electron-ion microscopy workflows to enable multi-scale imaging from protein localisation to elemental composition, supporting MIND-AD CRE projects investigating neurodegeneration.
- Supervisor
- Dr Dr Pranesh Padmanabhan
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
Engineering non-viral gene delivery methods for iPSC-derived Alzheimer’s models
Advance non-viral gene delivery for the development of improved iPSC-derived Alzheimer’s models—enabling better disease insights, drug discovery, and regenerative therapies.
- Supervisor
- Professor Jurgen Götz
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Engineering robust microbial hosts for precision fermentation
Deliver a plug-and-play microbial engineering platform, transforming the speed and flexibility at which precision fermentation hosts can be optimised for industrial use.
- Supervisor
- Dr Yosephine Gumulya and Professor Esteban Marcellin
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences
Kinetic Metabolic Modelling of Methanotrophs for Methane Bioconversion
Employ experimental and modelling datasets to accelerate scale-up of methanotrophic fermentation by developing a kinetic metabolic model that captures their metabolic response to industrially relevant concentration fluctuations.
- Supervisor
- Professor Esteban Marcellin, Dr Lars Puiman and Dr Isabella Casini
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Engineering
The opportunities and challenges of AI for improving environmental performance
Examine the water use/impacts of AI data-centres, and apply natural language processing (NLP) tools to analyse the sustainability performance of major industrial sectors.
- Supervisor
- Dr Nadja Kunz
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Environmental sciences
The role of dysfunctional mitochondria in cholinergic neuronal degeneration during aging
Test whether mitochondrial damage causes degeneration of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons and if repairing this damage can slow or prevent cognitive decline in aging and Alzheimer’s-like conditions.
- Supervisor
- Professor Elizabeth Coulson
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences