STUDENT PROJECTS

CAREERS

 

Here are the projects undertaken by current PhD students at WCHRI

 


APPLIED NUTRITION

PhD

Jacky Gould

 

 

Follow-up investigation whether maternal supplementation with DHA enhances development of attention and mental flexibility in early childhood.

 

Anoja Gunaratne

 

Maternal dietary interventions to reduce allergy risk in children.

 

Jacqui Miller

 

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

 

Jessica Reid

 

Determining the optimum macronutrient balance of the preterm infant diet.

 

 

CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH

PhD

Victoria Leitch

 

Changing the face of craniosynostosis.

 

Xianxian (Daisy) Yang

 

An investigation of the Crouzon model of Craniosynostosis.

 

 

LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY

PhD

Shriram Nath

 

Investigation of the interaction of leukmic cells and the bone marrow stroma in childhood ALL.

 

 

 


MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

PhD

Stephen Pederson

 

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

 

Natasha McInnes

 

Investigating the role of the transcription factor FOXP3 in breast cancer.

 

 

VIROLOGY

PhD

Melissa Cava

 

Antiviral compounds to inhibit the replicase of Hepatitis C Virus.

 

Tessa Gargett

 

Mucosal immunity to HIV induced by novel vaccine approaches.

 

Tamsin Garrod

 

Natural adjuvents to increase the immunogenicity of viral antigens.

 

Hugh Trahair

 

A comparison of immune responses generated by cytopathic and non-cytopathic vaccines.

 

 

WOUND HEALING

PhD

 

Tony Lin

Role of Flightless 1 in foetal wound repair.

 

Nadira Ruzehaji The role of Flightless I protein in diabetic wound healing