Surgery Projects

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Department	Nodes	Supervisor(s)	Email(s)	Project	Research Opportunity
Surgery	Surgery, Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital	Professor Mingguang He	mingguang.he@unimelb.edu.au	Artificial intelligence in ophthalmology: from data to algorithm and real-world application	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	Surgery, Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital	Professor Mingguang He	mingguang.he@unimelb.edu.au	Artificial intelligence system to detect eye and cardiovascular diseases	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	Surgery, Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital	A/Prof Zhichao Wu Prof Robyn Guymer AM	wu.z@unimelb.edu.au rh.guymer@unimelb.edu.au	Atrophic Age-Related Macular Degeneration (Expediting Translation of New Therapies to Clinical Care)	PhD students
Surgery	St Vincent's Hospital	Dr Serena Duchi Dr Carmine Onofrillo	serena.duchi@unimelb.edu.au carmine.onofrillo@unimelb.edu.au	Biofabrication of an in vitro 3D osteosarcoma model	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	St Vincent's Hospital	Dr Carmine Onofrillo Dr Serena Duchi	carmine.onofrillo@unimelb.edu.au serena.duchi@unimelb.edu.au	CASE: Cartilage Analytic Screening Environment	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	St Vincent's Hospital	Dr Carmine Onofrillo Dr Serena Duchi	carmine.onofrillo@unimelb.edu.au serena.duchi@unimelb.edu.au	Controlled mechanical stimulation for cartilage regeneration modelling with 3D bioprinting techniques	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	Surgery, Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital	Dr Raymond Wong	wongcb@unimelb.edu.au	Development of regenerative therapy for photoreceptor losses using cellular reprogramming technology	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	St Vincent's Hospital	Dr Carmine Onofrillo Dr Serena Duchi	carmine.onofrillo@unimelb.edu.au serena.duchi@unimelb.edu.au	Dynamic microfluidic in vitro differentiation of stem cells for cartilage regeneration in surgical 3D bioprinting	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	Surgery, Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital	A/Prof Zhichao Wu Prof Robyn Guymer AM	wu.z@unimelb.edu.au rh.guymer@unimelb.edu.au	Early Stages of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (Imaging Biomarkers for Treatment Discovery)	PhD students
Surgery	St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research	Dr Geraldine Mitchell Dr Anne Kong	gmitchell@svi.edu.au akong@svi.edu.au	Engineering a tissue flap	PhD students
Surgery	St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research	Dr Tara Karnezis	tkarnezis@svi.edu.au	Gene signatures of the ‘lymphaticome’	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	St Vincent's Hospital	Dr Carmine Onofrillo Dr Serena Duchi	carmine.onofrillo@unimelb.edu.au serena.duchi@unimelb.edu.au	Generation of an ex vivo regeneration model for 3D bioprinting applications	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	Surgery, Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital	Dr Srujana Sahebjada A/Prof Mark Daniel	Srujana.sahebjada@unimelb.edu.au	Genome-wide expression profiling of keratoconus and non-keratoconus corneas	Masters by Research
Surgery	Surgery, Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital	A/Prof Zhichao Wu	wu.z@unimelb.edu.au	Glaucoma Progression Transforming the Detection and Prediction of Progression	PhD students
Surgery	Surgery, Otolaryngology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital	Dr Christofer Bester Prof Stephen O'Leary	christofer.bester@unimelb.edu.au sjoleary@unimelb.edu.au	Impedance triggered therapeutic intervention after cochlear implantation	PhD students
Surgery	Surgery, Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital	Professor Mingguang He	mingguang.he@unimelb.edu.au	Improved early diagnosis of eye diseases by integration of retinal photography and artificial intelligence to build an opportunistic screening service in metro, regional and remote primary care settings	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research	Dr Shiang (Max) Lim Dr Jarmon Lees	maxlim@unimelb.edu.au jlees@svi.edu.au	Investigating cardiovascular disease in Friedreich's ataxia using human induced pluripotent stem cells	PhD students
Surgery	Royal Melbourne Hospital	Associate Professor Niall Corcoran Professor Christopher Hovens	niallmcorcoran@gmail.com cbhovens@gmail.com	Investigating the link between phenotype change and treatment resistance in prostate cancer	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research	Doctor Shiang Lim Doctor Jarmon Lees	mlim@svi.edu.au jlees@svi.edu.au	Modelling cardiovascular diseases using human cardiac organoids	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	Surgery, Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital	Dr Tom Edwards Dr Lauren Ayton	thomas.edwards@unimelb.edu.au layton@unimelb.edu.au	Ocular gene therapy: the new era of blindness prevention	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	Surgery, Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital	A/Prof Peter van Wijngaarden	peterv@unimelb.edu.au	Satellite imaging technology to detect the early signs of glaucoma and Alzheimer’s disease in the retina	PhD students
Surgery	Royal Melbourne Hospital	Professor Christopher Hovens Associate Professor Niall Corcoran	cbhovens@gmail.com niallmcorcoran@gmail.com	The Genomic Drivers of High Risk Prostate cancer	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	Royal Melbourne Hospital	Dr Rodney Luwor	rluwor@unimelb.edu.au	The role of EGFR Signaling in Glioblastoma Progression and Resistance to Current Therapies	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	Royal Melbourne Hospital	Dr Stanley Stylli	sstylli@unimelb.edu.au	The role of invadopodia in glioma invasion and response to therapeutics	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	Royal Melbourne Hospital	Dr Rodney Luwor	rluwor@unimelb.edu.au	The role of STAT3-mediated Cancer Progression and Resistance to Current Therapies	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	St Vincent's Hospital	Dr Ramin Shayan Dr Tara Karnezis	rshayan@svi.edu.au tkarnezis@svi.edu.au	Understanding the genetic basis of lipedema	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research	Dr Ramin Shayan Dr Tara Karnezis	rshayan@svi.edu.au tkarnezis@svi.edu.au	Understanding the microenvironment of lymphodema	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research	Dr Ramin Shayan Dr Tara Karnezis	rshayan@svi.edu.au tkarnezis@svi.edu.au	Understanding the role of CXCR7 in lymphodema following radiation injury	PhD students, Masters by Research
Surgery	Surgery, Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital	Dr Srujana Sahebjada A/Prof Mark Daniel	srujana.sahebjada@unimelb.edu.au	Using Artificial Intelligence to improve the diagnostic predictions of corneal topography machines for Keratoconus subjects	PhD students