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Pathology Honours Projects

Assoc Prof Bob Bao

  • Sudden Death in Young Australian CSI (Sydney)
  • Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Assoc Prof Stuart Cordwell

  • Peptide biomarkers of myocardial ischemia
  • The role of calcium overload in myocardial I/R injury

Prof Georges Grau

  • Defining the antigen presentation capacity of endothelial cells
  • Assessing microparticles as effectors in the microvascular lesion of cerebral malaria
  • Investigating mechanisms of microparticle production by microvascular endothelial cells and defining clinically useful inhibitors

Assoc Prof Brett Hambly

  • Protein defects causing familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  • Pathogenesis of Marfan Syndrome and related thoracic aortic aneurysm disease

Prof Nicholas King

  • The role of microparticles in the immune response to WNV
  • Infiltrating leukocytes in WNV encephalitis - their role in mortality
  • Changes in gene expression in neurons and microglia in WNV encephalitis
  • The role of mucosal dendritic cells in controlling virus infection in epithelium
  • Why isn't the foreign embryo rejected by the mother's role of adhesion molecules.
  • The role of monocyte/dendritic cells in initiating WNV immune responses

Prof Jillian Kril

  • Clinicopathological correlations in Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
  • Understanding alcohol-related brain damage

Assoc Prof Roger Pamphlett

  • Brain mutations in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Prof Des Richardson

  • Development of New Iron Chelators as Novel Drugs Against Cancer
  • Transport of Nitric Oxide in Cells and its Interaction with Iron Containing Proteins in Tumour Cells
  • The Role of Iron in the Pathogenesis of the Crippling Neurodegenerative Disease, Friedreich's Ataxia
  • Investigating cellular response to iron-depletion by examining the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) signalling pathway
  • Molecular Regulation of eIF3a in Cancer Cell Motility and Invasion

Prof Roland Stocker

  • Contribution of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase to the regulation of vascular tone
  • Unravelling the function of heme oxygenase-1 using a genetic approach
  • Functional regulating of vascular cells by heme oxygenase-1

Dr Paul Witting

  • Investigating the pro-atherogenic action of the acute phase protein serum amyloid A
  • Post translational changes to key cardiac proteins in the hearts of diabetic rats after experimental heart attack
  • Exploring a role for the heme protein neuroglobin in protecting neuronal cells from acute injury
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Dr Nigel Clarke

  • Characterising a new genetic cause of muscle weakness and testicular dysfunction

Dr Sue Firth

  • IGFBP-3 promotes solid tumour cell survival in adverse microenvironments

Dr Lionel Hebbard

  • Cancer stem cells
  • Mouse models of Fatty Liver
  • The role of liver-adipose tissue cross talk in liver disease

Dr Patric Jansson

  • Cancer therapeutics and targeting

Assoc Prof Marina Kennerson

  • Gene discovery using next generation genome technologies: family studies to identify genes that cause motor and sensory neuron death

Dr Darius Lane

  • The role of ascorbate in modulating hypoxic signalling in iron metabolism
  • The role of GPI-linked ceruloplasmin in astrocyte iron metabolism

Dr Loretta Lau

  • N-MYC/c-MYC-mediated regulation of the telomerase complex in neuroblastoma

Dr Rita Machaalani

  • Nicotinic Receptors in the smoking placenta

Dr Anastasia Mihailidou



  • Redox-dependent action of cortisol in cardiomyocytes
  • Blood pressure and biomarkers in aged men: from population back to bench

Prof Kathryn North

  • A gene for speed: the role of α-actinin-3 in the regulation of skeletal muscle mass

Dr Yohan Suryo Rahmanto

  • The role of melanotransferrin in melanoma growth and metastasis

Dr Ulla Simanainen

  • Role of androgens in experimental breast cancer
  • Androgens and skin cancer
  • Androgen metabolism and prostate cancer

Dr Munira Xaymardan

  • Role of Platelet Derived Growth Factor Receptor alpha cells in tooth development

Dr Jian Lin Yin

  • Biomarkers for predicting graft dysfunction after renal transplantation

Dr Bing Yu

  • Gene copy number in sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Dr Daohai Zhang

  • Molecular regulation of ERp29 in epithelial cancer cell plasticity
  • Dissecting the role of NDRG-1 in regulating endoplasmic reticulum stress and cancer cell survival