
Promotion in Medizin, Gesundheitswissenschaften und Psychologie
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Innerhalb der Medizin, Gesundheitswissenschaften & Psychologie gibt es verschiedene Möglichkeiten der Spezialisierung. Folgende Forschungsbereiche lassen sich unter anderem diesem Studienfeld zuordnen.
Medizin
- Biotechnology
- Biomechanics
- Bionics
- Critical Care & Trauma Medicine
- Cell biology
- Drug Discovery
- Emergency Medicine
- Epidemiology
- Genetics
- Genomics
- Infection, Inflammation & Immunity
- Injuries, Exercise & Rehabilitation
- Neurosciences
- Physiology
- Pharmacology
Gesundheitswissenschaften
- Aging
- Health Economics
- Health Services
- Health Systems & Innovation
- Indigenous Health & Health Equity
- Mental Health
- Nutrition & Metabolic Health
- Population & Global Health
- Public Health
- Reproductive Health
Psychologie
- Behavioral Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Cognition Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Forensic Psychology
- Health Psychology
- Medical Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Organisational Psychology
- Social Psychology
Dein genaues Forschungsthema kannst du in direkter Absprache mit den potentiellen Supervisor:innen abstimmen. Falls du noch keine feste Vorstellung für dein Thema hast, schau dir gerne einige der aktuell ausgeschriebenen Projekte an.
Auswahl möglicher Forschungsprojekte in Australien
PhD Health Sciences
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
Project Start Date: | 01/02/2024 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Arvid Hoffmann, arvid.hoffmann@adelaide.edu.au |
Contact for Project Details: | graduate.research@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | Consumer financial decision-making is an area of growing academic and policy relevance, given the increasing self-responsibility for making consequential financial decisions affecting consumers’ immediate and future financial well-being. Unfortunately, many consumers seem either ill-prepared or unable to take on increased financial responsibility. Consumers’ financial decisions can be better understood by examining their psychological characteristics, such as susceptibility to interpersonal influence, risk aversion, consideration of future consequences, or money attitudes. Accordingly, there is an increasing research tradition in marketing and consumer behaviour looking at how to reduce consumers’ financial vulnerability and improve their financial outcomes, taking into account their psychological characteristics. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
Project Start Date: | 01/01/2024 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | George Opie, george.opie@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | Given their physiological and functional importance, an extensive literature has investigated the utility of modulating oscillatory activity in order to influence function. Transcranial alternating current stimulation is one example of a tool that has been commonly used when attempting to achieve this. However, the waveform implemented by existing interventions is not reflective of endogenous oscillatory activity, which may influence the effectiveness of existing interventions. Consequently, this project will investigate how the stimulus waveform influences the response to neuromodulatory interventions targeting neuronal oscillations. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Megan Warin, megan.warin@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | The project aims to drive an urgently needed shift from top-down interventions that focus on obesity as an individual problem of diets and exercise, to collective solutions of care generated by families for families, empowering social change at a local, community level. In collaboration with Australia’s leading designers of social innovation, this anthropology project expects to generate new knowledge about care and food practices in disadvantaged communities, and to construct new digital, policy, and program frameworks for broader adaptation. The advances are likely to have a strong bearing on how obesity interventions, and more equitable health policy and practice, evolve in Australia and internationally. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
Special Requirements: | A background in anthropology, sociology, gender studies or Science and Technology Studies. Knowledge of ethnographic fieldwork is desirable. |
Additional Information: | This PhD student will be able to develop a project tailored to their skills and interests, but will involve fieldwork with industry partners and in differing community locations in Adelaide. The successful candidate will work closely with a postdoctoral fellow, Chief Investigators on the project (Dr Tanya Zivkovic) and our industry partners. |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
Project Start Date: | 01/02/2024 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Prof Brendan Jenkins, brendan.j.jenkins@adelaide.edu.au for details about the project contact: graduate.research@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | We are studying the role of the ADAM and iRhom families of proteases as key oncogenic drivers in the lung. This project aims for the first time to fully elucidate the mechanistic basis by which these protease families can influence lung carcinogenesis, and in doing so also identify how they potentially impact on innate immune responses triggered by pattern recognition receptors. This project employs a combination of in vivo lung cancer mouse models (genetically engineered, xenograft - including patient-derived), CRISPR gene editing and clinical biopsies to foster translation, as well as a vast range of molecular and cellular biological techniques. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
University: | University of Sydney |
Faculty: | Faculty of Engineering |
Project Start Date: | 01.03.2023 (later start possible) |
Application Deadline: | no fix deadline, applications accepted until position is filled |
Supervisor Name: | A/Prof Arnold Lining Ju - arnold.ju@sydney.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | Sydney / Camperdown |
Project Description: | The mechanical stimuli generated by body exercise can be transmitted from cortical bone into the deep bone marrow. A mechanosensitive perivascular stem cell niche is recently identified within the bone marrow for osteogenesis and lymphopoiesis. However, the mechanopropagation from compact bone to deep bone marrow vasculature remains elusive in this fundamental mechanobiology field. No experimental system is available yet to directly understand such exercise‐induced mechanopropagation at the bone‐vessel interface. To this end, an integrated computational biomechanics framework to quantitatively evaluate the mechanopropagation capabilities of bone marrow arterioles, arteries, and sinusoids is devised. The 3D geometries of blood vessels are smoothly reconstructed in the presence of vessel wall thickness and intravascular pulse pressure, followed by finite element analysis to thoroughly investigate the mechanical effects of exercise‐induced intravascular vibratory stretching on bone marrow vasculature. The effects of blood pressure and cortical bone bending are also examined. It is concluded that arterioles and arteries are much more efficient in transducing mechanical force than sinusoids due to their higher stiffness. In the future, this in-silico approach could be combined with other clinical imaging modalities for subject/patient‐specific vascular reconstruction and biomechanical analysis, providing large‐scale phenotypic data for personalized mechanobiology discovery. |
Funding Information: | The Scholarship will provide a stipend allowance equivalent to the University of Sydney’s Research Training Program (RTP) stipend rate for up to 3.5 years. RTP stipend is currently $35,950 AUD/year. The scholarship is available to domestic and international students. |
Admission Requirements: | To apply, email academic transcript and resume to supervisor A/Prof Arnold Lining Ju - arnold.ju@sydney.edu.au You will have to have: • Academic knowledge in the discipline of biophysics, biomechanics, electrophysiology, cell biology and biochemistry; • Experience of Linux/Unix commanding line (Unix shell) • Capability of using two or more of ANSYS, COMSOL, Abaqus, LabVIEW, Python, AutoCAD, MATLAB and other software. Preferred experience include: • Solid basic knowledge of biology and hands-on experience in PC2 biological laboratory, using flow cytometer, ELISA, Western blots, protein-protein interaction assays, protein/antibody purification and functional characterizations; • Experience in theoretical simulation using and MATLAB or COMSOL, or LabVIEW programming to control equipment and devices. • Capability of independently output processing models and drawings, be capable of CNC programming, use other conventional processing platform equipment to manufacture mechanical parts, and use 3D printers for part manufacturing. • Pre-doctoral track records with publications, conference papers, reports, professional or technical contributions with evidence of independent research ability. • Excellent oral and written communication skills. |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Adrian Elliott, adrian.elliott@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | In this project, we will explore the impact of left atrial structure and function on outcomes for patients with AF, HF, and stroke. This project will involve interventions focussed on lifestyle modification (i.e. exercise, weight loss) that may modify left atrial function, potentially leading to improved symptoms and outcomes. This project will include multimodal cardiac assessment, including MRI, CT and ultrasound, coupled with invasive haemodynamics and exercise imaging. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
University: | University of Sydney |
Faculty: | Faculty of Engineering |
Project Start Date: | 01.03.2023 (later start possible) |
Application Deadline: | no fix deadline; application open until position is filled |
Supervisor Name: | A/Prof Arnold Lining Ju - arnold.ju@sydney.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | Sydney / Camperdown |
Project Description: | Clotting and bleeding are two sides of a coin, leading to cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and haemophilia—the No.1 worldwide killer. It has long been recognised that the von Willebrand factor (VWF) is the mechanosensor for primary and secondary haemostasis by interacting with platelets and clotting factor VIII. We have recently discovered a new ‘biomechanical’ prothrombotic mechanism that highlights the remarkable VWF sensitivity to the shear stress of blood flow disturbance. Importantly, we found that the current drugs are often not successful and come with an increased financial burden. |
Funding Information: | The Scholarship will provide a stipend allowance equivalent to the University of Sydney’s Research Training Program (RTP) stipend rate for up to 3.5 years. RTP stipend is currently $35,950 AUD/year. The scholarship is available to domestic and international students. |
Admission Requirements: | To apply, email academic transcript and resume to supervisor A/Prof Arnold Lining Ju - arnold.ju@sydney.edu.au You will have: Preferred experience include: |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Jennifer Stone, j.stone@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | Sycophancy and narcissism are common traits seen in the workplace and they have a deleterious impact of workplace culture, including issues of integrity. This project focusses on exploring these impacts broadly and in relation to academic and research settings. The focus will be on systematic reviews. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Simon Barry, simon.barry@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | Genetic risk studies have identified snps that are linked to T1D risk, but can’t identify their targets without 3D genomics to connect them. These snps are most frequently found in regulatory regions such as enhancers, and these can alter the expression of many genes in a cell specific manner. We aim to connect the genetic risk to the target genes in T cells, as these are a key driver of the autoimmune defect that leads to insulin dependence, using multi omics single cell approaches. From this we will discover therapeutic targets for future clinical intervention. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Dr Rutger de Zoete, rutger.dezoete@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | Healthcare costs associated with the management of neck pain (Australia: >$10B annually) are vastly disproportionate to the limited efficacy of treatments. There is an urgent need to improve the allocation of resources to lessen the burden on the healthcare system. However, it is currently not possible to inform policymakers due to the absence of population-level data. This project captures epidemiological data on the widespread burden of neck pain, informing public health policy with vast potential to improve neck pain management. This project has been designed in collaboration with external stakeholders, including consumers, regulatory bodies and policy makers, and insurers. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Dr Raman Sharma, raman.sharma@adelaide.edu.au & Prof Jozef Gecz, jozef.gecz@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | TIMMDC1 is ubiquitously-expressed gene that encodes an essential component of mitochondrial complex I subunit responsible for ATP synthesis and is critical for neuronal and non-neuronal functions. We identified a deep-intronic homozygous TIMMDC1 variant in two affected children (deceased) and used splice-switching oligonucleotides (SSOs) to efficiently restore normal levels of mRNA, protein, and mitochondrial function in the affected skin fibroblasts. We have generated a humanised preclinical Timmdc1 mouse model that recapitulates human symptoms. This project will determine molecular and cellular consequences of treating the Timmdc1 homozygous mutant mice with SSOs with an aim of developing treatments for human patients with this variant. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Dr Clare van Eyk, clare.vaneyk@adelaide.edu.au & Prof Jozef Gecz, jozef.gecz@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of physical disability in childhood, affecting 17 million worldwide. Clinically, CP encompasses a group of diverse and individually rare disorders, more appropriately referred to as the ‘CP spectrum’. Similar to other neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) such as epilepsies and autisms, the causes of CP are diverse and include both genetic and non-genetic causes. The Australian CP Biobank (ACPB) is an internationally unique resource, currently holding DNA and patient cells from >500 Australian children with CP along with clinical data (including brain imaging). This project applies multi-omics approaches (exome or genome sequencing, RNA-seq, methylation array) to uncover novel and known genetic causes of cerebral palsies. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Dr Mark Corbett, mark.corbett@adelaide.edu.au & Prof Jozef Gecz, jozef.gecz@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | Repeat expansion disorders are caused by expansions of multiple copies of short DNA motifs typically 3 - 7 basepairs (bp) in length. Familial adult myoclonic epilepsy (FAME) is a late onset tremor and epilepsy syndrome caused by non-coding, intronic, repeat expansions composed of two different 5 bp motifs TTTTA and TTTCA, in one of six genes. The molecular mechanisms that lead to epilepsy and tremor in FAME are unknown. The project aims to 1. Identify brain-specific RNA binding proteins that bind to FAME repeats. 2. Use patient-derived induced neuronal cell lines to identify the effect of FAME repeats on RNA splicing in the brain. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Dr Lachlan Jolly, lachlan.jolly@adelaide.edu.au & Prof. Jozef Gecz, jozef.gecz@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | Whilst many different types of gene variants can cause genetic diseases, those impacting mRNA splicing among the most difficult to identify. The major approach to assess the impact of a splice altering variants is to analyse mRNA splicing patterns. But >1400 disease genes cannot be robustly assayed in patient-derived blood and skin cells because they are not expressed. This project will develop and apply technologies based on modified CRISPR dCas9 gene editing and cell-reprogramming that enables the study of non-expressed genes in patient-derived cells. The project will lead to new cutting-edge diagnostic and research capacities. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Jordi Fernandez, jorge.fernandez@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | This project concerns an experience that is normally part of consciousness; the awareness of a conscious state as the subject's own. The main aim of the project is to specify exactly what it is to undergo that experience. This issue is at the heart of a perennial debate about consciousness, that on whether we are aware of our conscious states as our own, or we are merely aware of their occurrence. The anticipated outcomes include a conceptual distinction between two components of consciousness, and an analysis of the nature of three mental disorders in which the two components seem to come apart. These outcomes are expected to constitute a significant innovation in the study of consciousness and, more generally, in the philosophy of mind. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
Additional Information: | Project funds are expected to be spent by the end of 2024. However, the research will continue and, with it, a supporting environment for a potential PhD student working on it. |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
Project Start Date: | 01/01/2024 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Assoc. Prof. Sharyn Gaskin, sharyn.gaskin@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | Lung diseases represent almost 50% of the top ten causes of death worldwide. In Germany, every four minutes a person dies from lung or airway diseases while in Australia, 1 in 7 deaths are related to it. Lung disease in occupational settings, however, is often completely avoidable through rigorous hazard monitoring and exposure control. This project will use modern sensor technology and state-of-the-art equipment to assess exposure to respiratory hazards in real-world high-risk settings such as mining and construction. Outcomes from this research will eventually inform policy on best practice for hazard mitigation in occupational settings, which is relevant for disease prevention. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
Special Requirements: | All experimental work is expected to be published in high impact factor journals. |
University: | University of Adelaide |
Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
Supervisor Name: | Assoc. Prof. Sharyn Gaskin, sharyn.gaskin@adelaide.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
Project Description: | Worldwide, an estimated 385 million cases of unintentional pesticide poisonings occur annually in workplaces, claiming around 11000 lives. In Australia, 2.8% of the workforce is exposed to pesticides in their workplace. The skin is the primary route of pesticide exposure in this industry. This project will assess the comparative barrier protection performance of chemcial resistant glove materials against pesticides, and investigate the role of product formulation (co-ingredients) in skin uptake. The outcomes of the work will ultimately assist in occupational risk assessment and hazard managment in the agriculture industry, which is relevant for worker health protection. |
Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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University: | University of Melbourne |
Faculty: | Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences |
Project Start Date: | negotiable |
Application Deadline: | ongoing |
Supervisor Name: | Dr Rachael Moses, e-mail: rachael.moses@unimelb.edu.au |
Location (City/Campus): | Parkville Precinct |
Project Description: | Humans heal in a different manner to rodents, so we need to start using more representative wound healing models to replicate the tissue architecture and wound healing cascade observed in human dermal wound healing. This exciting PhD opportunity involves developing a 3D infected chronic wound model, comprised of culturing dermal chronic wound fibroblasts, which are obtained from venous leg ulcers and epidermal keratinocytes in a complex 3D model system, allowing the strong paracrine feedback system to occur between the two cell types, as occurs in the native skin environment. This model will be utilising mostly animal-free-origin products, in a move away from typically animal-derived components used in tissue culture, resulting in reduced ethical implications and reduced variability across experiments, due to batch-to-batch variability associated with animal-derived products. This model will use a synthetic hydrogel (PeptiGel®) from Manchester BIOGEL to replace the typically used Matrigel; this PeptiGel® can be tailored to include additional components, including collagen, laminin and fibronectin. This project involves working within the Sloan/Moses lab at The University of Melbourne, benefitting from their extensive 3D model experience. Dr Moses has been awarded a number of grants and prizes recently to further develop this work, with a strong background in wound healing, in vitro 3D models and novel pharmaceutical screening. Professor Sloan has long standing expertise in developing novel in vitro / ex vivo organ 3D culture model systems for tissue regeneration/engineering and testing novel therapeutic agents, along with advancing the 3Rs in biomedical research and bioengineering. Dr Farrugia has a strong background in biomaterial development and characterisation, and wound healing, including in vitro models, with an additional focus on the development of new therapies. Dr Liam Sharkey is a bacteriologist specialising in antibiotic resistance with a particular focus on Staphylococcus aureus, a common cause of chronic wound infections. He has experience with in vitro models of S. aureus biofilm formation and the genetic manipulation of clinical S. aureus strains. This project benefits from collaboration with industrial partners assessing novel pharmaceuticals on these models; these natural pharmaceuticals have previously been assessed by Dr Moses through a variety of other 2D wound healing studies. This project will involve a variety of laboratory-based techniques including tissue culture, 3D models, bacteriology, histology, immunostaining, H&E staining, confocal imaging, translational research, bioinformatics, biostatistics, research management, oral presentation skills, and scientific writing skills. |
Funding Information: | RTP scholarships are available to domestic and overseas students enrolled in an accredited HDR course at an Australian HEP. More information |
Grundlegendes zum Schwerpunkt Medizin, Gesundheitswissenschaften & Psychologie
Forschung in den Gesundheits- und Medizinwissenschaften und der Psychologie stellt das physische und mentale Wohlbefinden des Menschen in den Mittelpunkt. Ziel ist es, neue und innovative Wege zu finden, Krankheiten zu identifizieren, zu heilen und zu verhindern und eine Bereitstellung von effizienten Gesundheitsdiensten zu gewährleisten. Die Frage, wie Gesellschaften die Gesundheit und Gesundheitsversorgung ihrer Bevölkerung sichern, wird im Zuge der aktuellen globalen Veränderungen immer wichtiger. Mit seinen grundlegenden Fragestellungen gehört dieser Forschungsbereich zu den neun nationalen „Research Priorities“ in Australien. Mit renommierten internationalen Forschungspartnern setzen sich die australischen Universitäten darüber hinaus für die Lösung globaler gesundheitswissenschaftlicher Herausforderungen ein.
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Medizinstudierende, die sich für ein PhD-Programm in Australien bewerben wollen, brauchen einen Nachweis über substantielle Forschungserfahrung während ihres Studiums. Dieser Nachweis kann auch durch die deutsche Doktorarbeit erbracht werden.
Deine Ansprechpartnerinnen im Bereich Forschung
Rebecca Fischer
Studienberatung & 7br>Bewerbungsabwicklung
Tel: +49 (0) 711 400 910 41
E-Mail: fischer[at]gostralia-gomerica.de
Svea Hellmig
Studienberatung & 7br>Bewerbungsabwicklung NRW
Tel: +49 (0) 221 975 868 70
E-Mail: hellmig[at]gostralia-gomerica.de