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Nanodiagnostics for early detection and monitoring of ovarian cancer
Advance early ovarian cancer (OC) diagnosis by developing nanotechnology-integrated strategies, with a specific focus on analyzing exosomes and exosomal biomarkers.
- Supervisor
- Dr Mostafa Kamal Masud
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences, Engineering
Novel copper catalysts of carbon-carbon bond forming reactions
Develop an unprecedented family of copper catalysts and deliver an innovative and versatile chemical reactivity platform.
- Supervisor
- Professor Paul Bernhardt and Professor Craig Williams
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences
Paris-compliance: assessing companies and portfolios using data science
Turn the tide on misleading corporate climate pledges and systematise the assessment of companies' climate performance using a science-based approach.
- Supervisor
- Dr Saphira Rekker
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Commerce, management, tourism and services, Environmental sciences, Information and computing sciences
Paving the way for a Clinical Vaccine Candidate against Hookworm Infection
Produce vaccine candidates against hookworms that will be able to induce robust immune responses against all strains without triggering adverse effects.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ahmed Shalash
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences
Physiological traits to improve wheat yield in changing environments
Investigate genetic variation of key adaptative traits underlying heat and drought tolerance in wheat with opportunities in crop modelling and genomic prediction to capture genotype x environment interactions.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Karine Chenu
- Location
- UQ Gatton campus
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Practical multi-receiver passive radar with low-cost synchronisation
Enhancing multi-receiver passive radar by synchronizing receivers, using novel algorithms for improved performance and expanded coverage. Project benefits: traffic monitoring, drone detection, and more.
- Supervisor
- Dr Konstanty Bialkowski
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences
Privacy Compliance in Software Ecosystems
Address privacy issues in modern software ecosystems by developing a new privacy-compliance assessment framework. The framework will enable reliable assessment of potential privacy risks.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Guangdong Bai
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Privacy, Data Protection and Competition Policy
Microeconomic analysis of incentives to provide data protection and privacy in the digital economy.
- Supervisor
- Dr Heiko Gerlach
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Economics
Production Performance of Narrow Row 2D Fruit Orchards
Investigate the impact of very narrow rows and 2D training systems on orchard production.
- Supervisor
- Dr Dr Liqi Han
- Location
- Tatura Smart Farm, Victoria
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Promoting LGBTQIA+ inclusion in primary care
Develop and evaluate components of an implementation toolkit to improve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and other related experiences (LGBTQIA+) experiences of primary care.
- Supervisor
- Dr Megan Ross
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Health sciences