Infectious Diseases and Immunity

Research in Critical Medicine integrates the cross-cutting disciplines of emergency medicine, anaesthesia and intensive care to influence policy and practice for improved safety, quality, and cost effectiveness of caring for the critically ill.

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Projects	Supervisor(s)	Department	Research Opportunity
Characterisation of a novel early thymic progenitor	Mark Chong	Medicine and Radiology	Honours students
Cluster RCT of a multi-component intervention package to improve maternal and childhood vaccination in Victoria	Margie Danchin	Paediatrics	PhD students
COVID-19 and the common cold: does pre-existing immunity to seasonally circulating coronaviruses influence the severity of COVID-19	Siddhartha Mahanty	Medicine and Radiology	Masters by Research, Honours students, Master of Biomedical Science
Hepatitis C treatment among people in prison in Victoria	Alexander Thompson	Medicine and Radiology	Honours students
How to detect a T cell’s response to autoantigen?	Stuart Mannering	Medicine and Radiology	PhD students, Honours students, Master of Biomedical Science
Monocytes in COVID-19: the great influencer of disease severity?	Siddhartha Mahanty	Medicine and Radiology	Masters by Research, Master of Biomedical Science
Transgenerational influence of diet on autoimmune susceptibility	Mark Chong	Medicine and Radiology	PhD students
What are antigens/epitopes are recognized in by islet-infiltrating CD8+ T cells in people with type 1 diabetes?	Stuart Mannering	Medicine and Radiology	PhD students, Master of Biomedical Science
What are the functional properties of human CD4+ T cells, from people with type 1 diabetes, that respond to proinsulin C-peptide?	Stuart Mannering	Medicine and Radiology	PhD students, Master of Biomedical Science