As part of phase I of the 2015 MIME Seed Fund round, clinicians submitting an unmet clinical need proposal were asked if they would be interested in the project being a PhD scholarship. Additionally, as part of phase II of the 2015 MIME Seed Fund round, researchers were asked to indicate if they would be interested in funding in the form of a PhD scholarship.
As a result, 17 projects were identified as PhD projects and were offered PhD funding. Additionally, 3 summer school projects were also awarded.
As with the 2015 MIME Seed Fund round, we would like to thank all clinicians who submitted an unmet clinical need identifying that the project was a suitable PhD topic and all researchers who submitted a project proposal response. We extend our congratulations to the successful project teams below.
Applications for the PhD scholarships will be welcomed in 2016 via the MIME website www.monash.edu/mime or by contacting Professor Laurence Meagher, Deputy Director, Director of Research, MIME laurence.meagher@monash.edu
Clinical champion
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Project title
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Short description
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Researchers
from Eng/IT
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Others
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Hospital
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MIME 2015 PhD Scholarship Awardees
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Cardiovascular and lung disease
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28
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Professor David Kaye
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Heart attack
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Develop 3D-printed muscle patch
for heart repair
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Professor Laurence Meagher (ENG)
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Dr Almar Postma (CSIRO)
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Alfred Health
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40
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Dr Randall Moshinsky
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Cardiac surgery
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Develop minimally invasive
surgical needle holder for complex cardiac procedures, improving quality and
reducing cardiac surgery times
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Professor
Bijan Shirinzadeh (ENG), Dr Chao Chen (ENG), Dr Bernard Chen (ENG)
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Monash Health
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75
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Associate Professor Bing Wang, Professor Anthony Dart
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Wearable cardiac rhythm monitor
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Development of a wearable,
non-invasive monitor of cardiac rhythm for long term, 24 h monitoring of at
risk patients
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Professor Wenlong Cheng (ENG)
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Associate Professor Bing Wang (AH)
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Alfred Health
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Musculoskeletal disease
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8
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Professor Flavia Cicuttini
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Hand osteoarthritis
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Develop
a non-invasive therapy based on high-intensity ultrasound
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Professor Sunita Chauhan (ENG), Professor Malin Premaratne (ENG)
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Professor Catriona McLean (AH)
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Alfred Health
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61
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Dr Stehphen Tham
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Synthetic ligaments
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Synthetic
ligaments – develop a synthetic material that replicates the properties of
normal ligament.
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Professor Neil Cameron (Eng)
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Monash Health
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Regenerative medicine
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10
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Dr Heather Cleland, Mr Stephen Goldie
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Burn injuries
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Develop
a tissue engineered skin substitute, which will enable rapid and permanent
wound closure, as well as functional and aesthetic reconstruction
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Professor Neil Cameron (ENG)
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Mr Stephen Goldie (AH), Dr Shiva
Akbarzadeh (AH), Dr Marisa Herson (AH), Professor Anton Peleg (AH), Dr Ana
Traven (MNHS)
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Alfred Health
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Neural, vision and mental health
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3
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Associate
Professor Winston Chong
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Brain aneurysms
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Use
of computational fluid dynamics to develop a clinical diagnostic tool that
assesses risk of rupture of an individual aneurysm
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Professor Mark Thompson (ENG)
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Leon Tat Lai (MH), Mr Eldho Paul
(FMNHS), Professor Yi Qian
(Macquarie)
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Monash Health
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Trauma, emergency and intensive care
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32
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Professor Dan Lubman
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Mental health and addiction
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Develop
emergency service electronic data analysis system to aid emergency response
to overdose, self-harm and acute mental health emergencies
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Professor Geoff Webb (FIT),
Professor Wray Buntine (FIT), Professor Falk Schreiber (FIT), Dr Christoph
Bergmeir (FIT), Mr Matthias Klapperstueck (FIT)
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Associate Professor Belinda Lloyd
(EHCS, MNHS), Mr Gene Bawden (MADA), Dr Caroline Gao (EHCS, MNHS), Dr Cherie
Heilbronn (EHCS, MNHS)
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Eastern Health
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18
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Professor Mark Fitzgerald
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Trauma resuscitation
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Trauma resuscitation – develop wireless heads-up display for
real-time decision support
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FIT researchers - algorithm development
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Alfred Health
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Cancer
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31b
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Dr Jason Lickliter, Dr
Andrew Hayden
(Lickliter, Hayden and Suzuki) |
Cancer
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Utilise
advances in nanotechnology to develop novel cancer therapeutics
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Professor Kiyonori Suzuki (ENG), Professor Laurence Meagher
(ENG), Associate Professor Cordelia Selomulya (ENG)
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Professor Magdalena Plebanski (AH)
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Alfred Health
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69
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Dr Stephen Ting
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Leukemia stem cell detection
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Single cell
identification, separation, isolation and assay of bone marrow and leukemia stem
cells
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Associate Professor Adrian Neild
(ENG)
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Alfred Health
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Kidney disease
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25
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Professor David Kaye, Professor Karin
Jandeleit-Dahm
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Chronic kidney disease
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Development
of a diagnostic device for simultaneous detection of two important biomarkers
in chronic kidney disease
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Dr Tuncay Alan (ENG)
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Professor Ian Smith (MNHS),
Professor Mark Sleeman (MATF), Dr Sanjay Kuruppu (MNHS)
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Alfred Health
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Paediatrics
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64
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Dr Kenneth Tan
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Newborn intensive care
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Decision
support tool development for care of pre-term infants in intensive care –
avoidance of alert fatigue
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Associate Professor Vincent Lee
(FIT), Ye Lu (ENG)
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Mr Dawei Sun (FIT)
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Monash Health
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Surgical training and instrumentation – paediatrics
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42, 44, 47
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Mr Ram Nataraja
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Surgical training tools and simulators
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Training tool development for optimisation of
movement economy in surgical procedures
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Professor Sunita Chauhan (ENG)
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Professor Paul McMenamin (MNHS)
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Monash Health
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Surgical training and instrumentation
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33
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Dr Stuart Marshall
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Nerve damage
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Develop
pressure-sensing endotracheal tube to minimise laryngeal nerve damage during
thyroid surgery
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Dr
Jean-Michel Redoute, Dr Mehmet Yuce (ENG)
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Dr Jonathan
Serpell (AH), Professor Paul Myles (AH), Dr James Lee (Alfred HH)
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Alfred Health
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Imaging and diagnostics
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68
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Professor Ken Thomson
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Automated diagnostic report analysis
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Development
of a system to analyse diagnostic reports and provide alerts for significant
findings to clinicians
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Professor Ingrid Zukerman (FIT),
Dr Reza Haffari (FIT)
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Associate Professor Karin
Verspoor (Uni Melb), Associate Professor Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT)
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Alfred Health
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Clinical champion
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Project title
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Short description
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Researchers
from Eng/IT
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Others
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Hospital
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MIME Student Summer Projects
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Cardiovascular and lung disease
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77
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Dr Tony White
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Call to resuscitation by mobile phone
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Development
of a system identifying and calling cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
trained individuals to attend cardiac events occurring within a 500 m radius
via smart phone and GPS
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Associate Professor David Taniar (FIT), Dr Maria
Indrawan-Santiago (FIT)
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Monash Heart
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Musculoskeletal
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1
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Professor Rachelle Buchbinder
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Fibromyalgia
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Social
media analysis of patient experience to develop an online data collection
tool
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Professor Frada Burstein (FIT), Dr Pari
Delir Haghighi (FIT)
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Cabrini
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Neural, vision and mental health
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15
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Dr Joanne Enticott
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Mental Health
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Develop
web-based interactive map that provides information on area-based mental health
needs
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Mr Martin Atchison (FIT)
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Monash Health
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