Paediatrics Projects

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Department	Nodes	Supervisor(s)	Email(s)	Project	Research Opportunity
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Ruili Li Professor John Hutson		Analysis of gene regulations on gonocyte transformation into spermatogonial stem cells	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Ashlee Smith Dr Anna Price		Associations between domestic violence in pregnancy and women’s and their subsequent children’s outcomes	Masters by Research, Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Catherine Satzke Dr Salvatore Manna		Bacterial factors for pneumococcal transmission	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Eileen Dunne Dr Catherine Satzke		Bacterial gene expression in pneumococcal pneumonia	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Anushi Rajapaksa Dr Ronda Greaves		BiliNappy: Novel low cost point-of-care diagnostic for Jaundice embedded in a newborn nappy	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Nicole Van Bergen Professor John Christodoulou		Brain cells in a dish: strategies for novel therapeutics in the CDKL5 disorder	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Professor Jane Halliday Professor Agnes Bankier		Burden of disease associated with genetic aetiology at a paediatric hospital	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Jonathan Mynard Dr Catherine Quinlan		Cardiovascular Risk in Nephrotic Syndrome	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Alison Compton Professor David Thorburn		Characterisation of the parkin protein and how it causes parkinson disease	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Vera Ignjatovic A/Professor Christoph Hagemeyer		Characterisation of the specificity and activity of bio-engineered antibodies in children	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Philip Sutton Dr Sohinee Sarkar		Developing a new treatment for stomach cancer	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Cheryl Jones Valerie Sung		Do targeted newborn screening and early antiviral therapy prevent sensorineural hearing loss due to congenital cytomegalovirus infection (cCMV)?	PhD
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Jane Seto Professor Kathryn North		Effect of ACTN3 on corticosteroid response in Duchenne muscular dystrophy	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Professor Andrew Elefanty Ms Elizabeth Ng		Engineering artificial bone marrow	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Ken Pang Michelle Tollit	ken.pang@mcri.edu.au michelle.tollit@mcri.edu.au	Evaluating health outcomes of transgender children and adolescents	PhD
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Paul Licciardi Mr Zheng Quan Toh		Examination of cross-neutralising immunity following HPV vaccination in Fiji	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Professor Kathryn North Dr Peter Houweling		Examining the effect of alpha-actinin-3 deficiency in skeletal muscle injury	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Professor Kathryn North Dr Peter Houweling		Examining the evolutionary role of alpha-actinin-3 in adaptive thermogenesis	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Paul Lockhart Dr Kiymet Bozaoglu		Functional characterisation of a novel gene linked to autism spectrum disorder	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Vera Ignjatovic Professor Paul Monagle		Haemostatic abnormalities in children with venous thromboembolism and stroke	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Vera Ignjatovic Ms Chantal Attard		Haemostatic system in Fontan patients with liver dysfunction	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Nicole Van Bergen Professor John Christodoulou		HDAC6 inhibitors as a treatment for Rett syndrome: Resolving neuronal trafficking deficits	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Prof Sharon Goldfeld Dr Anna Price		How is hair cortisol related to mother's mental health and wellbeing over time?	Masters by Research, Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Donald Newgreen Mr Lincon Stamp		How to increase numbers of neural precursor cells in vitro for cell therapy for the birth defect Hirschsprung disease.	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Donald Newgreen Mr Lincon Stamp		How to transfer neural precursor cells to the aneural colon for cell therapy for the birth defect Hirschsprung disease.	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Ann Frazier Professor David Thorburn		Human Stem Cell Models of Mitochondrial Disease	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Paul Licciardi Dr Lien Anh Ha Do		Immunomodulatory effects of Vitamin D on the host response to bacterial and viral infections	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Prof Sharon Goldfeld Dr Anna Price		Improving the learning and development of children raised in adversity	PhD
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Professor Edouard Stanley Professor Andrew Elefanty		In vitro models of type 1 diabetes	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Anushi Rajapaksa A/Professor Paul Licciardi		Inhaled RSV therapeutics: Aerosol delivery of novel therapies to the infant lung	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Jonathan Mynard Dr Michael Cheung		Investigation of inter-arm blood pressure differences during paediatric exercise testing	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Vera Ignjatovic Ms Mara Galli		Investigation of the age-specific changes in Blood Microparticles	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Vera Ignjatovic Ms Mara Galli		Investigation of the in vitro effect of the antiplatelet drug Tirofiban in children	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Professor Harriet Hiscock Ms Rachel Neely		Measuring low value care across inpatient, outpatient and emergency department settings	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Professor Harriet Hiscock Ms Rachel Neely		Measuring low value care in the emergency department; a multi-site study	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Professor Andrew Elefanty Ms Elizabeth Ng		Modelling childhood leukaemias using human pluripotent stem cells	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Adam Piers A/Professor Salvatore Pepe		Modulating fibrosis and myocardial injury in Muscular Dystrophy	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Danielle Wurzel Dr Lien Anh Ha Do		Molecular Epidemiology of Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections in Children under 2 years of age	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Professor Richard Saffery Dr David Burgner		Molecular mediators of gene:environment interactions underlying early life programming of cardiovascular and metabolic risk.	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Professor Yves D'Udekem Dr Rachael Cordina		Peak exercise capacity in patients with a Fontan circulation	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Professor David Amor Dr Susan Reid		Placental dysfunction in the causal pathway to cerebral palsy	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Alison Compton Professor David Thorburn		Solving Rare Diseases via the Australian Genomics Mitochondrial Disease Flagship	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Paul Lockhart Dr Sarah Stephenson		Solving Rare Diseases via the Australian Genomics Mitochondrial Disease Flagship	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Professor Martin Delatycki Dr Sarah Stephenson		Susceptibility to adult disorders in carriers of Mendelian alleles	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Catherine Satzke Dr Salvatore Manna		Synergistic interactions between Streptococcus pneumoniae and respiratory viruses on bacterial pathogenesis	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Trevelyan Menheniott A/Professor Philip Sutton		Targeting stem cells as a new treatment for stomach cancer	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Jeffrey Craig Dr Andrew Gooley		The application of a novel dried blood spot collection device for future diagnostic applications	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Jeffrey Craig Dr Yuk Loke		The early origins of autism: a focus on epigenetic differences within identical twin pairs	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Rachel Peters Dr Jennifer Koplin		The epidemiology of childhood food allergy and other allergic diseases	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Professor Harriet Hiscock Dr Jane Sheehan		The feasibility and acceptability of a mindfulness meditation program within the preschool setting	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Philip Sutton A/Professor Sarath Ranganathan		The immune response to infection in early cystic fibrosis	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Susan Clifford Professor Melissa Wake		The ‘Premmie Health Profile’: Do babies born early or small have distinct patterns of health and metabolic disparities?	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Susan Clifford Professor Melissa Wake		The “Best Age and Size to be Born”	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Timothy Silk Dr Charles Malpas		Understanding brain development in ADHD using longitudinal, multimodal neuroimaging.	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Prof Sharon Goldfeld Dr Anna Price		Understanding patterns of social adversity from pregnancy to school-entry	PhD, Masters by Research
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Paul Lockhart Dr Kiymet Bozaoglu		Understanding rab39b-mediated parkinson's disease	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Elena Tucker Andrew Sinclair	elena.tucker@mcri.edu.au andrew.sinclair@mcri.edu.au	Unravelling the genetic cause of Premature Ovarian Insufficiency	PhD, Honours
Paediatrics	Burnet Institute	Chris Morgan Alyce Wilson	chris.morgan@burnet.edu.au alyce.wilson@burnet.edu.au	Uptake of immunisation services in rural Papua New Guinea (PNG)	Masters by Research, Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	A/Professor Paul Lockhart Dr Kiymet Bozaoglu		Using cerebral organoids for the study of tuberous sclerosis complex	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Prof Lynn Kemp Dr Anna Price		Validating a generic mood question in a large cohort of Australian women	Masters by Research, Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Dr Amy Nisselle Dr Belinda McClaren		What are the education and training needs of health professionals incorporating genomics into healthcare? A mixed methods study	Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Prof Sharon Goldfeld Dr Anna Price		What does it cost to do research with women experiencing adversity?	Masters by Research, Honours
Paediatrics	Royal Children’s Hospital/Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	Ms Melissa Mulraney Professor Harriet Hiscock		What influences mental health treatment choices for children in Australia? A qualitative study of family and clinician factors.	Honours