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Honours at Nepean

The Sydney Medical School Nepean has a variety of research projects in a number of disciplines available to Medical Program students seeking to undertake MBBS (Honours). Opportunities for PhD and Masters research projects also exist. Projects can be individually tailored to suit the needs and interests of each candidate. Opportunities for laboratory based and or clinically based projects are available. Full training in all laboratory techniques required will be provided, and may include isolation of primary cells, cell culture, ELISAs, DNA isolation, PCR, SDS-PAGE/Western blotting, immunocytochemistry, flow cytometry and sample collection. Projects are available in the following disciplines with more detail in the Research pamphlet linked in the feature pane.

  • Cardiology: Inflammation in heart failure
  • Critical Care: Sepsis, Intensive Care Echocardiography, Biomarkers, Neurotrauma
  • Dermatology: Purinergic signalling in contact dermatitis
  • Geriatrics: Aging Bone Research Program.
  • Haematology: Factors regulating erythrocyte life-span
  • Immunology: Interleukin-1 family members in rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases
  • Infectious Disease: Genetic determinants in tuberculosis.
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Medical disorders in pregnancy and ultrasound, Fetomaternal Medicine and Early Pregnancy:
  • Paediatrics: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome / ADHD / T-cell Immunology.
  • PsychologicalMedicine: AnxietyDisorders / Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders.
  • Surgery: Comparison of surgical techniques and surgical outcomes across all surgical areas, causes and risk factors of cancer, meta-analysis and systematic reviews.
  • Urogynaecology: Pelvic Floor Trauma, prolapse surgery, prediction of delivery mode, pelvic floor protection in labour.

For more information please contact:
Research Support Officer: Susan Dowd

or

Ms. Robyn Lewis for

Professor Jack Wall
Professor of Medicine
Phone: +61 2 4734 2613
Fax: +61 2 4734 2614
Email:

Dept. Medicine
University of Sydney
Level 5, South Block
Nepean Hospital
PO Box 63
Penrith NSW 2751 Australia