PhD Opportunity: Therapeutic Development for NAXD Deficiency and Neurodegenerative Metabolite Repair Disorder University of Melbourne in Australia

Research Associate in Sleep and Neurodegeneration at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Macquarie Park, Sydney, Australia. This is a full-time, fixed-term 2-year research role within the Sleep and Circadian Research Group, working under the direction of the Chief Investigators on multiple projects centred on sleep and neurodegeneration. The group is described as a world leader in sleep and respiratory research, with work spanning sleep biology, sleep neuroscience, clinical research, and...

PhD opportunity at the University of Melbourne in optimising hearing screening and early detection to improve child outcomes . This research degree project will investigate how hearing screening and early detection can be improved to support better developmental , educational , and health outcomes for children. The project is offered by the Department of Paediatrics , Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, and is located at the Royal Children’s Hospital / Murdoch Childrens Research ...

Research Degree Opportunity: PhD in Early fetal neural markers for infants with congenital heart disease using advanced MRI This opportunity is offered by the Department of Paediatrics , Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne , with supervision from Prof Deanne Thompson (Principal Supervisor) and A/Prof Clare Whitehead (Internal Co-supervisor). The project investigates how fetal MRI can identify early neural markers linked to later neurodevelopmental impairme...

PhD opportunity at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences on programmed axon death , SARM1 , NMNAT2 , and protein design . The project focuses on understanding the mechanism of programmed axon death, an intrinsic axonal death pathway implicated in neurodegenerative disease and injury. The work will use rational protein design to create variant forms of SARM1 or hybrid reporter constructs to study activation, stability, enzyme activity, and post-translational modi...

Research Degree Opportunity at the University of Melbourne for a PhD project titled Neighbourhood environment and health across childhood and into adulthood following extremely preterm birth . This project will examine how neighbourhood environmental exposures across childhood relate to health outcomes into adulthood, using data from the Victorian Infant Collaborative Study (VICS) . The cohort follows extremely preterm/ELBW and term-born individuals across multiple birth cohorts from infancy to ...