Projects

Honours in Department of Medicine (Central & Eastern Clinical School)

Contacts for 2002
Dr Alicia Stein-Oakley Tel: 9903 0539
alicia.stein-oakley@med.monash.edu.au

The Department of Medicine at the Alfred Hospital runs an active B.Sc.Honours, B.Biomedical Science, and B.Med.Sci programme. Our students carry out their projects at the Alfred Hospital campus, Baker Medical Research Institute, Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research & Public Health, and Department of Medicine at the Box Hill Hospital. In 2002 we will have approximately 70 projects on offer. Projects will be in the areas of transplantation, renal, respiratory, dermatology, bone marrow transplantation, haematology, pharmacology, neurosciences, and infectious diseases research, as well as others. The following is a preliminary list of projects available within the Department in 2002. A full listing of these and other projects can be viewed through the 2002 Projects link on the right.

Department of Medicine

Transplantation Immunology / Renal Disease Group

1. Mechanisms of chronic injury in cardiac allografts - Dr Alicia Stein-Oakley. (Project details)
   
   
2. Apoptosis in tolerance induction - Dr Alicia Stein-Oakley & Prof Napier Thomson. (Project details)
   
   
3. Cytokine gene polymorphisms in progression of diabetic renal disease - Dr Alicia Stein-Oakley & Prof Napier Thomson. (Project details)

Respiratory Medicine Group

1. Airway changes in chronic lung transplant rejection - A/Prof Trevor Williams. (Project details)
   
   
2. Immunostaining for inflammatory enzymes in airway biopsies in lung transplant recipients - A/Prof Trevor Williams. (Project details)

Dermatology Group

1. Female androgenetic alopecia - Dr Rod Sinclair. (Project details)

Bone Marrow Transplantation / Clinical Haematology

1. Evaluation of apoptotic mechanisms in multiple myeloma cell lines and patient derived primary tumours - Dr Andrew Spencer. (Project details)
   
   
2. Mutations in components of the TRAIL apoptosis pathway in multiple myeloma - Dr Andrew Spencer. (Project details)

Clinical Pharmacology / Therapeutics Group

1. Autonomic effects of lung transplantation - A/Prof Henry Krum, Dr Matthew Naughton, A/Prof Trevor Williams. (Project details)

Clinical Neurosciences Group

1. Clinical correlates of recently developed otolith function tests - Dr John Waterston. (Project details)
   
   
2. Validation and clinical correlation of upper limb ballistic tracking movement recordings and tapping regularity in cerebellar disease - Prof Elsdon Storey & Ms Kate Tuck. (Project details)
   
   
3. Novel proverbs test of frontal-executive function - Prof Elsdon Storey. (Project details)
   
   
4. The role of APP and APLP2 in neurite outgrowth - Dr Louise Kelly & Prof Elsdon Storey. (Project details)
   
   
5. 5. Expression of proteins involved in Spinocerebellar Ataxia and investigation of protease distribution in the brain. (Project details)

Infectious Diseases Group

1. Development of an oral plant-derived vaccine for measles - Prof Steve Wesselingh & Dr Jenny Martin. (Project details)
   
   
2. Neuropathogenesis of HIV dementia - Prof Steve Wesselingh & Dr Jenny Martin. (Project details)
   
   
3. Viral encephalitis - Prof Steve Wesselingh & Dr Jenny Martin. (Project details)
   
   
4. Methicillin resistant Staph aureus - Prof Steve Wesselingh & Dr JennyMartin. (Project details)

OTHER PROJECTS - Central & Eastern Clinical School