Child Health in Medicine

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Projects	Supervisor(s)	Department	Research Opportunity
: Unravelling the role of breast milk ether lipids in modulating immune function in early life	Peter Meikle	Baker Department of Cardiometabolic Health	PhD students, Honours students
A clinical trial-in-a-dish using iPSC-derived cartilage and bone organoids	Shireen Lamande	Paediatrics	PhD students
A high throughput drug screen to identify candidate targets for the treatment of Neurofibromatosis Type 1.	Kiymet Bozaoglu	Paediatrics	PhD students
Adapt an evidence-based healthy lifestyle program to an Australian context	Dinah Reddihough	Paediatrics	PhD students
Adjunct Cord Blood Cell Therapy for Paediatric Heart Failure	Salvatore Pepe	Paediatrics	PhD students
Adverse health consequences of infant food allergy: a population-based longitudinal study.	Rachel Peters	Paediatrics	PhD students
Application of computational biology approaches to identify and develop biomarkers to predict pregnancy disorders and guide clinical practice.	Eva Dimitriadis	Obstetrics and Gynaecology	PhD students, Masters by Research
Application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to treat childhood syndromes	Andrew Deans	Medicine	PhD students, Masters by Research
Assessment and management of fatigue following paediatric acquired brain injury	Sarah Knight	Paediatrics	PhD students
BRACE trial PhD opportunities	Nigel Curtis	Paediatrics	PhD students
Can the allergic march from infant food allergy to asthma be prevented?	Rachel Peters	Paediatrics	PhD students
Clinical features in a common inherited cause of kidney failure	Judy Savige	Medicine	PhD students
Common severe childhood infections, innate inflammatory responses and cardiometabolic risk: The VASCular changes aFter INfectious Diseases (VASCFIND) study	David Burgner	Paediatrics	PhD students
Concussion Essentials: A clinical trial for reducing persisting symptoms after child concussion	Vicki Anderson	Paediatrics	PhD students
Controlling nephron patterning and segmentation in kidney organoids	Melissa Little	Paediatrics	PhD students
Defining the mechanisms that underpin the beneficial off-target effects of BCG	Nicole Messina	Paediatrics	PhD students
Determinants of COVID-19 risk and severity	Nicole Messina	Paediatrics	PhD students
Development of novel point-of-care diagnostics tests and surveillance tools for malaria	James Beeson	Medicine	PhD students, Masters by Research, Post Doctor Researchers
Development of novel vaccines against malaria	James Beeson	Medicine	PhD students, Masters by Research
Discovering novel genes and pathways to ataxia	Paul Lockhart	Paediatrics	PhD students
Discovering the mechanisms and targets of immunity against malaria	James Beeson	Medicine	PhD students, Masters by Research
Does neonatal BCG vaccination protect against infection and allergic disease in the first 5 years of life?	Nigel Curtis	Paediatrics	PhD students
Effects of Vitamin D Status on DEXA Femoral Neck BMD in Children and Adolescents	Christine Rodda	Medicine	PhD students, Masters by Research
Effects of Vitamin D Status on Forearm Fracture Healing Rates in Children and Adolescents: A Pilot Study	Christine Rodda	Medicine	PhD students, Masters by Research
Expanding pancreatic progenitor cells for treatment of type 1 diabetes	Ed Stanley	Paediatrics	PhD students
Expanding the molecular understanding, and advancing personalised therapeutics for KIF1A-Associated Neurological Disorders	Simranpreet Kaur	Paediatrics	PhD students
Fertility preservation in children with cancer	Yasmin Jayasinghe	Obstetrics and Gynaecology	PhD students, Masters by Research
Foot deformities in children with cerebral palsy	Elyse Passmore	Paediatrics	PhD students
Gene regulation in the developing retina and the childhood eye cancer retinoblastoma	David Eisenstat	Paediatrics	PhD students
Genetics of childhood hearing loss	Valerie Sung	Paediatrics	PhD students
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies in Papua New Guinea – The impact of nutrition, malaria, and other infections on pregnant women and infants	James Beeson	Medicine	PhD students, Masters by Research, Post Doctor Researchers
Healthy Trajectories: Promoting wellbeing and quality of life for those with child-onset disability and their families	Christine Imms	Paediatrics	PhD students
healthYpulse: A Learning Healthcare System for Improving Paediatric Patient Experience and Outcomes	Jim Buttery	Paediatrics	PhD students
High Dimensional Immune and Epigenetic Profiling of Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)	Richard Saffery	Paediatrics	PhD students
Identifying targets and mechanisms of acquired immunity to severe malaria in children	James Beeson	Medicine	PhD students, Masters by Research
Identifying the causes of brain malformation in children	Paul Lockhart	Paediatrics	PhD students
Inequities in children’s mental health: evidence to inform precision policy responses	Sharon Goldfeld	Paediatrics	PhD students
Infertility in women and embryo implantation failure: identifying how infertility develops using new technologies	Eva Dimitriadis	Obstetrics and Gynaecology	PhD students, Masters by Research, Honours students, Master of Biomedical Science
Inflammatory mediators in the development of preeclampsia and pre-term birth.	Eva Dimitriadis	Obstetrics and Gynaecology	PhD students, Masters by Research, Post Doctor Researchers
Interrogating the spatial dynamics of gene regulatory networks during embryonic development and disease	Mirana Ramialison	Paediatrics	PhD students
Investigating 'silent' newborn viral infections and outcomes in the GenV cohort	Valerie Sung	Paediatrics	PhD students
Investigating a Unique Dwelling Space for New Mothers and Babies	Samuel Menahem	Paediatrics	PhD students
Investigating the role of FBX proteins in Neurodevelopment	Sarah Stephenson	Paediatrics	PhD students
Learning Health System for identification and prevention of vaccination errors	Jim Buttery	Paediatrics	PhD students
Linking determination of cell fate in the developing nervous system to paediatric brain tumours	David Eisenstat	Paediatrics	PhD students
Longitudinal and secular trends in outcomes for adolescents with hearing impairment in Victoria	Valerie Sung	Paediatrics	PhD students
Measuring developmental outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children	Anita d'Aprano	Paediatrics	PhD students
Microbial changes following pneumococcal conjugate vaccination	Catherine Satzke	Paediatrics	PhD students
Molecular remodelling of endothelial cells in response to specific lymphocytes and other signals	Richard Saffery	Paediatrics	PhD students
Motor function assessment using video-based motion capture and machine-learning for children with movement disorders	Elyse Passmore	Paediatrics	PhD students
Neuropsychological profile of children with childhood apraxia of speech	Angela Morgan	Paediatrics	PhD students
Optimising use of everyday technology for children and adolescents with acquired brain injury	Sarah Knight	Paediatrics	PhD students
Oral Health and Attitudes in Young Adults Aged 15-25 Years with Diabetes Mellitus: A Case - Control Study	Christine Rodda	Medicine	PhD students, Masters by Research
Placental Cord Blood Cell Therapy in Children at High Risk of Heart Failure	Salvatore Pepe	Paediatrics	PhD students
Precision prediction of maternal and child outcomes from routine fetal ultrasounds	Melissa Wake	Paediatrics	PhD students
Prevention of nut allergies in high risk infants	Kirsten Perrett	Paediatrics	PhD students
RCT of Vitamin D supplementation for prevention of allergy	Kirsten Perrett	Paediatrics	PhD students
Resolving inflammation in childhood respiratory disease	Melanie Neeland	Paediatrics	PhD students
Respiratory strategies to protect the preterm lung at birth	Prue Pereira-Fantini	Paediatrics	PhD students, Masters by Research
SNOTWATCH: Mapping real-time respiratory and gastrointestinal viral information to inform and improve health outcomes	Jim Buttery	Paediatrics	PhD students
Structural biology of proteins involved in infection	Craig Morton	Medicine	PhD students, Masters by Research
Supporting young people with complex disability to participate in important life situations	Christine Imms	Paediatrics	PhD students
Targeting novel mediators of chronic pain to improve analgesia for Epidermolysis Bullosa	Ken Pang	Paediatrics	PhD students
The impact of air pollution and other environmental factors on food allergy and other allergic diseases across the first 10 years of life: a population-based, longitudinal study.	Rachel Peters	Paediatrics	PhD students
The LongSTEPPP Project	Sonia Grover	Paediatrics	PhD students
Understanding and defining supportive health/NDIS service environments	Christine Imms	Paediatrics	PhD students
Understanding beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration using stem cell models	Paul Lockhart	Paediatrics	PhD students
Understanding pneumococcal pathogenesis	Catherine Satzke	Paediatrics	PhD students
Understanding the neurobiology of autism in NF1 using patient derived stem cell models	Kiymet Bozaoglu	Paediatrics	PhD students
Use and impact of psychotropic medication in pregnancy	Melissa Wake	Paediatrics	PhD students
Use of a respiratory function monitor to improve training efficiency in neonatal face mask ventilation	Marta Thio	Obstetrics and Gynaecology	Honours students
Using parasite and vector serosurveillance to inform malaria elimination	Freya Fowkes	Medicine	PhD students, Masters by Research, Honours students, Master of Biomedical Science, Post Doctor Researchers
Using single-cell omics to determine disease mechanism and improve clinical management of children with epilepsy	Sarah Stephenson	Paediatrics	PhD students
Vitamin D supplementation and food allergy risk in early life: immunological and molecular mechanisms	Richard Saffery	Paediatrics	PhD students
Why are babies in SCNs/NICUs at higher risk of permanent hearing loss?	Valerie Sung	Paediatrics	PhD students