SPARK Projects
Meet our current SPARK Cohort
ADMiER: a one-step, point-of-care test to rapidly and accurately diagnose and subtype dry eye disease
- A/Prof Laura Downie
Associate Professor
Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences
- Dr Sumeer Singh
Clinical Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences
- Dr Ruth Park-Jones
Business Development Director & Cluster Lead (MDHS)
Research, Innovation & Commercialisation
- Dr Callum Lawrence
Senior Project Officer, Innovation Initiatives
Research, Innovation & Commercialisation
- Prof Leslie Yeo
Professor of Chemical Engineering
RMIT
- Dr Jasmine Castro
Research Fellow, School of Engineering
RMIT
Matthew Lui
Research Engineer, School of Engineering
RMIT
A high-fidelity fully-implantable seizure prediction system
- Dr Matias Maturana
Strategic Partnerships Manager
Seer Medical
- A/Prof David Garrett
Associate Professor
Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, RMIT
- Prof Steven Prawer
Professor
Department of Physics
Neurobit: translating brain signals to robotic movement
- Dr Farhad Goodarzy
Research Fellow
Department of Medicine
- Dr Andi Partovi
PhD Candidate
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Novel therapeutics for autoimmune disease
- Dr William Figgett
Research Fellow
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
A novel device to continuously monitor fetal wellbeing in labour
- Dr Fiona Brownfoot
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Emerson Keenan
PhD Candidate
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
A dual functional immunostimulant that protects against seasonal influenza
- Dr Brendon Chua
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Prof David Jackson
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
New device to improve optical coherence tomography angiography imaging
- A/Prof Bang Bui
Associate Professor
Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences
- A/Prof Andrew Metha
Associate Professor
Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences
- A/Prof Wilson Heriot
Ophthalmologist
Honorary
Melbourne Medical School
- Ms Anh Hoang
Project manager
Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences
- Dr Flora Hui
Research Fellow (Industry Engagement)
Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences
- Dr Tomoharu Nishimura
Ophthalmologist
Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences
Development of novel antimicrobials for the treatment of multidrug resistant bacterial pathogens
- Dr Glen Carter
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Dr Craig Morton
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Generation of novel STING inhibitors
- Prof Peter Crack
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology
- Dr Juliet Taylor
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology
- Prof Michael Parker
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology
- Dr Tracy Nero
Research Fellow
Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology
A novel influenza virus vaccine that provides long term protection
- Dr Linda Wakim
Laboratory Head
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Movember-sponsored SPARK project: Development of an integrative genomic classifier to predict response to androgen deprivation therapy in prostate cancer
- Dr Anis Hamid
Genitourinary Oncology Research Fellow
PhD Candidate
Department of Surgery