Department of Biomedical Sciences

Projects

Projects per year

2006 2025

• 1 Curtailed
• 5 Not started
• 128 Active
• 173 Finished

Projects per year

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• Developing next-generation pain therapies based on Cannabinoid derivatives

  Connor, M. & Bladen, C.

  15/05/18 → 15/05/19

  Project: Research

• Seeking genomic factors that modify the progression of MND

  Williams, K., Blair, I., Bauer, D. C., Twine, N., Nicholson, G. & Rowe, D.

  20/04/18 → 19/04/19

  Project: Research

• Endeavour Research Fellowship 2018

  Shi, B.

  1/04/18 → 30/09/18

  Project: Research

• YSEP-NSI: Australia China Young Scientist Exchange Program - Next Step Initiative - Lim

  Lim, E.

  19/03/18 → 1/08/18

  Project: Other

• Inducing autophagy to treat motor neuron disease

  Laird, A., Don, E., Shahheydari, H., Cole, N. & Nicholson, G.

  15/03/18 → 14/03/19

  Project: Other

• Adaptation of respiratory chemoreception: role of inhibitory neuropeptides

  McMullan, S., Kumar, N., Power, J. & Abbott, S.

  18/02/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

• Investigating cyanobacteria toxin as a causative environmental factor in pathogenesis of ALS

  Lim, E., Tan, V., Guillemin, G., Peyrin, J. M. & SH Tan, P.

  1/02/18 → 31/01/19

  Project: Other

• Seeding Macquarie's clinical imaging research: the Tracer Access Program (TAP)

  Chung, R.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• Intracranial aneurysm haemorrhage prediction by employing precision an advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology

  Sen, I.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• The role of mutant CYLD in frontotemporal dementia and motor neuron disease

  Blair, I., Dobson-Stone, C., Kwok, J. B., Atkin, J., Ooi, L., Ittner, A., Lee, A., Mather, K. A., Thompson, E. & Burgio, G.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• Centre of Research Excellence in Melanoma: Person, tumour and system-focussed knowledge to drive better outcomes in melanoma

  Mann, G. J., Cust, A. E., Scolyer, R. A., Braithwaite, J., Kelly, J., Morton, R. L., Spillane, A. J., Saw, R., Henderson, M., Yang, J. Y. H., Hong, A., Tran, A., Gyorki, D., Milne, D., Long, G. V., Rizos, H., Kasparian, N., Fernández-Peñas, P. & Guitera, P.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/22

  Project: Other

• Neurodegenerative disease pathology, mechanisms, models and treatments

  Walker, A. K. & Rizos, H.

  1/01/18 → 1/01/18

  Project: Research

  • neurodegenerative diseases
  • Queensland

• Examining the unique susceptibility of neurons in Motor Neuron Disease (MND)

  Shahheydari, H., Don, E. & Atkin, J.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Other

• A novel approach for targeted delivery of nanotherapeutics to the brain for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

  Shi, B.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Identification of new ophthalmic biomarkers and their association to brain amyloid burden in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

  Shah, T.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Other

• A novel optical stimulation method for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Treatment

  McMullan, S., Bilston, L. & Burke , P.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Other

• BRAIN-MEND: Biological Resource Analysis to Identify New MEchanisms and phenotypes in Neurodegenerative Diseases

  Blair, I., Wray, N. R., Armstrong, N. J., Kwok, J. B., Laws, S., Mather, K. A., McRae, A. F., Mellick, G. & Sachdev, P. S.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Other

• Custodians of the CNS: Microglia regulate the spread of disease proteins

  Morsch, M. & Chung, R.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Other

• Cerebrospinal fluid physiology in the spinal cord with relevance to Syringomyelia pathogenesis

  Liu, S. & Stoodley, M.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• A transgenic zebrafish model to study sporadic motor neuron disease for drug screening studies

  Laird, A., Blair, I. & Nicholson, G.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Other

• Exosomes: predictive and prognostic biomarkers in melanoma

  Diefenbach, R. & Rizos, H.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

• Proteome homeostasis dysfunction in axon terminals as a cause of MND

  Blair, I., Molloy, M., Yerbury, J., Ooi, L. & Vendruscolo, M.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Other

• Targeting neuroserpin-plasmin interactions to protect the retina in glaucoma

  Graham, S. L., Gupta, V., Baker, M. S., Mirzaei, M. & Magnus, T.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/21

  Project: Other

• New directions for early diagnosis of MND: a large-scale longitudinal analysis of multiple biomarkers to find diagnostic and prognostic "fingerprints"

  Guillemin, G., Rowe, D., Blair, I., Atkin, J., Zetterberg, H., Rogers, M., Lovejoy, D., Lim, E. & Tan, V.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Validating the NLRP3 Inflammasome as a Therapeutic Target in Motor Neuron Disease

  Atkin, J., Woodruff, T. M., McCombe, P. A., Walker, A. K., Robertson, A. & Gordon, R.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• Calpeptin, and related candidates, for the treatment of Machado Joseph disease

  Laird, A., Nicholson, G., Walker, A. K., Cole, N., Lee, A., Morsch, M., Davis, R., Guillemin, G., Atkin, J. & Ooi, L.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• Establishing an advanced platform for single cell fluorescent imaging and analysis

  Morsch, M., Yang, S., Lee, A., Lim, E., Chung, R., Blair, I., Rizos, H. & Atkin, J.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Other

• Investigating the prevalence and mechanisms of orthostatic intolerance in young adults with joint hypermobility disorders

  Peebles, K., Pacey, V., Butlin, M., Avolio, A. & Collins, F.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

• MQRIS Small: Enhancing electrochemical recording techniques in the animal research facility

  Cornish, J., Baracz, S., McMullan, S., Goodchild, A., Barron, A. & Hildreth, C.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Other

• Characterization of immunotherapy resistance effectors in melanoma

  Rizos, H. & Alavi, S.

  14/12/17 → 14/12/18

  Project: Research

• Understanding the early disease mechanisms of motor neuron disease and frontotemporal dementia.

  Le, S.

  8/12/17 → …

  Project: Research

• Award to attend the 28th International Symposium on MND/ALS and related travel

  Williams, K.

  3/12/17 → …

  Project: Research

• Effect of CocoMCT on Clinical Factors related to Health, Cognition, Quality of Life and Alzheimer's disease-related Biomarkers EPS

  Martins, R., Chatterjee, P., Sohrabi, H., Bacsi, A. & Goozee, K.

  1/12/17 → …

  Project: Research

• Investigating the diagnostic utility of hyperspectral retinal imaging in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

  Martins, R., Gillatt, D., Graham, S. L., Chatterjee, P., Goozee, K., Gupta, S., Shah, T. & Sohrabi, H.

  1/12/17 → 13/10/20

  Project: Research

• 2017 NSW Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research - Outstanding Cancer Researcher of the Year

  Kefford, R. & Rizos, H.

  3/11/17 → 3/11/18

  Project: Other

• Identification of early stage diagnosis of colorectal cancer

  Sharma, S. & Baker, M. S.

  1/09/17 → 30/09/18

  Project: Research

• Molecular insight of biofilm in chronic infections and their response to current treatment using microbiome, metagenomics and meta-transcriptomics approaches

  Hu, H.

  1/08/17 → …

  Project: Research

• Genetics and cellular stress in PKD

  Phillips, J. K. & Atkin, J.

  6/07/17 → …

  Project: Research

• Post-traumatic stress disorder: Connectivity of the hyper-reactivity centre

  Goodchild, A. & McMullan, S.

  4/07/17 → 23/06/19

  Project: Research

• Development of next-generation targeted therapies for epilepsy and pain based on cannabinoid derivatives

  Bladen, C. & Connor, M.

  3/07/17 → …

  Project: Research

• How kidney disease rewires the brain to reduce heart health: changes to support cells in the brain

  Phillips, J. K. & Hildreth, C.

  3/07/17 → 2/07/19

  Project: Research

• High content oncoproteomics for improved prognostication and treatment response

  Packer, N., Molloy, M., Engel, A., Clarke, S., Gill, A., Samra, J., Baker, M. S. & Thaysen-Andersen, M.

  1/07/17 → …

  Project: Research

• Investigating the molecular and pathological basis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

  Fifita, J., Blair, I. & MQRES, M.

  1/05/17 → …

  Project: Research

• Fellowship top-up to attract high-performing early-career research fellow to work on novel mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Motor Neuron Disease (MND)

  Atkin, J.

  1/05/17 → …

  Project: Research

• Telomere Dysfunction in ALS/MND

  Atkin, J. & Cutts, S.

  1/05/17 → …

  Project: Research

• Novel therapeutics targeting neuronal transport pathways in MND

  Atkin, J., Walker, A. K., Laird, A., Jonathan, B. & Abbott, B.

  28/04/17 → …

  Project: Research

• Therapeutics based on the protective activity of protein disulphide in MND

  Atkin, J., Walker, A. K., Laird, A., Heras, B., Anderson, M., Craik, D. & Bleackley, M.

  28/04/17 → …

  Project: Research

• Investigating the regulatory roles of Cyclin F phosphorylation in the development and prevention of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

  Lee, A., Chung, R., Blair, I., Atkin, J. & Molloy, M.

  18/04/17 → …

  Project: Research

• Differential effects of MAPK inhibition on immune activity determine melanoma response

  Lim, E., Rizos, H. & Kefford, R.

  17/04/17 → …

  Project: Research

• Acoustic liquid handling robotics for bioactive compound discovery

  Karuso, P., Poulsen, S., Avery, V., Quinn, R., Jonathan, B., Scanlon, M., Cooper, M., Booker, G., Professor, S., Guillemin, G., Smith, J., Ryan, J. & Peat, T.

  10/03/17 → …

  Project: Research