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$1.94 million in Future Fellowships for research projects of national significance

A first-of-its-kind exploration of dopamine receptors to better understand development across the lifespan and creating nano-needles to deliver genetic materials into cell interiors – meet the next-gen researchers working...

Media

Finding new drugs to fight malaria

Malaria parasites are growing increasingly resistant to anti-malaria drugs, with the current frontline drug showing signs of waning effectiveness. Malaria is an infection of red blood cells and is...

Drug Discovery

Comorbid risk factors play vital key to blood-based dementia diagnosis

More than one million cases of dementia are projected by 2056, driving an urgent need to develop an accurate, clinically compliant and cost-effective early diagnosis of this debilitating disease. ...

Ageing

Introduction to Nutritional Psychiatry: Nutri-Psyche

Grow your understanding of the links between diet and mental health and explore strategies to use nutrition in treatment plans. Develop practical knowledge to use nutritional care for mental...

Food and Mood

How the tiny zebrafish might unlock new cancer treatments

Meet the Deakin Research Fellow using cutting-edge genome-editing techniques to create zebrafish models of human cancer. Dr Faiza Basheer is interested in deciphering the drivers of aggressiveness and drug...

Cancer research

Putting gut health under the microscope

For 14 years, Dr Leni Rivera has explored the link between intestinal health, nutrition and metabolic disorders.  Her research has gathered strength in that time, she has led projects...

Gut Microbiome

Researchers provide missing data for new bone health tool

The wealth of data collected via the Geelong Osteoporosis Study continues to contribute to the development of new technology, with a recent study revealing how its data can be...

Osteoporosis

How drugs can deliver the benefits of exercise

Exercise is an important aspect of leading a long and healthy life – its benefits affect all parts of the human body from our major organs to our skeletal...

Molecular Medicine

The future of Brain Capital

Brain Capital has taken another leap forward thanks to a global collective effort called the Brain Capital Alliance, which was recently launched via a series of events across Europe.  ...

Brain Capital

Unmasking biological pathways for new anti-malaria drugs

Malaria parasites are growing increasingly resistant to anti-malaria drugs, with the current front-line drug, Artemisinin, showing signs of waning efficacy.  But research undertaken in the Host-Pathogen Interaction group led...

Infectious Diseases

Meet Alfred Deakin Professor Felice Jacka

The title of Alfred Deakin Professor is the most prestigious honour that the University can bestow on its staff. And recently, Felice Jacka’s position as an Alfred Deakin Professor...

Meet the team

Learning from viruses to boost protection

Meet Dr Vinod Sundaramoorthy. For him, viruses can be considered as friends or foes. His job – to understand which is which and how viruses invade and damage a...

Meet the team