STUDENT PROJECTS

CAREERS

 

Here are the projects undertaken by current PhD, and Honours students at WCHRI

 


APPLIED NUTRITION

PhD

Jacqui Miller The effect of increasing the protein content of human milk fortifier on growth in breast fed preterm infants.
 

EPITHELIAL BIOLOGY

PhD

Victoria Leitch

 

Changing the face of craniosynostosis

 

Rino Donato Cytokine effects on barrier function
Ilma Burhanuddin Function of retinol binding proteins in osteogenesis
 

LEUCOCYTE BIOLOGY

PhD

 

Naomi Perry

 

Identification of immunological markers in the peripheral blood of children with atopic eczema to predict clinical outcome.

 

Pallave Dasari Role of toll-like receptors in regulating neonatal lymphocytes.

 

 


LEUKAEMIA BIOLOGY

PhD

 

Sonya Diakiw

Identification of novel oncogenes from myeloid leukaemias by retroviral expression cloning.

 

Chung Kok

Rose of Gadd45alpha in myeloid growth/differentiation and in acute myeloid leukaemia.

 

 

MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

 

   
Honours

Stephen Pederson

 

The search for genes under regulatory control of Foxp3, and their role in lineage specification for regulatory T cells
 

WOUND HEALING

PhD

 

Zlatko Kopecki Role of c-myb in wound fibrosis and scar formation.
Tony Lin Role of Flightless 1 in foetal wound repair
Huater Chan Androgen receptor and gelsolin: their relationship and their involvment in the wound repair process