Research Interests

The Faculty maintains an extensive database of individual research profiles. Structured around a fixed list of 70 broad research terms, profiles are maintained by staff themselves and are regularly updated. Be sure to make regular visits...

Ageing
Allergy
Bioethics
Biomedical Engineering
Biostatistics
Cancer
Cardiology and Vascular Disease
Cell Biology and Gene Regulation
Clinical Governance
Clinical Research
Diabetes
Epidemiology
Evidence Based Medicine
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Genetics - Genome Analysis
Gerontology - Geriatrics
Global Health
Haematology
Health Policy
Health Services Research
HIV - AIDS
Imaging / Radiology
Immunology
Infectious Diseases
Inflammation
Injury
Medical Education
Medical Informatics
Metabolism
Molecular Structure & Drug Design
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Neurology
Neuroscience
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedics
Pain
Pathology
	Dr Sian Hicks     Prince of Wales Clinical School Statement of Interests: Colorectal cancer is currently the most common cancer diagnosed in Australia and has the second highest incidence of cancer-related deaths. Our research group, the Colorectal Cancer Research Consortium, was established to develop and test better systems for the identification, integration and dissemination of clinically relevant information about colorectal cancers and to use this information as a basis to develop research that could be translated into clinical practice. Current project include: - Development of synoptic pathology reporting for colorectal cancer - Identification of data that is essential for the reporting of colorectal cancer by the Clincial Cancer Registry - Integration of mismatch repair deficiency testing (MMRD)into pathology reporting of colorectal cancer - Microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer as a prognostic indicator for metachronous cancers More...
	Dr Chris White     Prince of Wales Clinical School - Department of Medicine Statement of Interests: The research focus in gestational diabetes is to identify physiologic mechnisms responsible for development of the syndrome and tools that can be used for its reliable diagnosis. Screening and diagnostic strategies need to be developed as well as prenatal and postnatal management startegies for both the mother and the baby. Osteoporosis research is directed toward better understanding the biomechanical factors responsible for fracture and failure of bone to withstand minimal trauma. Diagnostic tools need to be developed that better identify those patients most likely to benefit from interventional strategies aimed at reducing fracture incidence. More...
	Dr Yan Yu     Prince of Wales Clinical School - Department of Surgery Statement of Interests: Dr Yan Yu is currently a Principal Hospital Scientist of Prince of Wales Hospital and the Section Head of Orthopaedic Pathology & Molecular Biology of the Surgical & Orthopaedic Research Laboratories. She is also a conjoint senior lecturer of the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales. She obtained a PhD degree for her work on allergy and immunology from the University of Bern in Switzerland in 1992. She is one of the pioneers in the establishment of the Surgical & Orthopaedic Research Laboratories. Her research specialties range from animal surgery to tissue pathology, cell biology, protein analysis and molecular biology. Her research interests includes skeletal responses to injuries and/or implantations; osteoporosis and osteoporotic bone defect healing; osteogenesis and tumourigenesis of human osteosarcoma cell lines; mechanisms of osteosarcoma local growth and distance metastasis and targeted therapies; tendon healing; amongst others. More...
Pharmacology
Physiology
Population Health
Preventive Medicine
Primary Health Care
Pulmonary Disease
Rehabilitation
Renal Disease
Stem Cells
Surgery
Toxicology
Transplantation
Virology