Higher Degree by Research Opportunities

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Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component.

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Identifying the Molecular Drivers of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

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Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component.

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Identifying new mechanistic blood biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease

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Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component.

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Professor Sally Gainsbury

Gambling Treatment and Research Clinic/Technology Addiction Team

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PhD in Psychology:

Investigating how to minimise gambling-related harms in vulnerable populations

Enhancing voluntary uptake of gambling harm-minimisation tools and resources

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Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree in Psychology (or similar) with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.
Applicants must be able to support themselves financially whilst living in Sydney for the duration of the degree and managing all expenses (including university fees)

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Professor Sally Gainsbury

Halliday Research Laboratory (Parkinson's disease)

Opportunity

A unique opportunity is available for an outstanding PhD scholar to conduct research into a project named, “From dreams to degeneration: Sleep-wake disturbances as a target for novel biomarkers and therapies for patients with Parkinson’s disease.

This scholarship is funded in part by Department of Defence United States Government.

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Dr Elie Matar

Dr Yuhong Fu

Professor Glenda Halliday

Eligibility

Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree
A cover letter
Two academic referees

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Forefront Clinic

Neurodegeneration Research (Parkinson's disease)

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PhD in developing disease-modifying therapies for Parkinson's disease

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Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree
Applicants must be able to support themselves financially (scholarship or personal funding) for the duration of the degree including university fees.

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PhD in ethical and humane use of animals in research

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Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree
Applicants must be able to support themselves financially (scholarship or personal funding) for the duration of the degree including university fees.

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Neuroimaging Research Team (Frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease)

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Mapping neuroimaging disease trajectories in dementia

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Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree in a neuroscience-related discipline (e.g., Psychology or other) with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.
Applicants must be able to support themselves financially whilst living in Sydney for the duration of the degree and managing all expenses (including university fees)

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Neuroimaging phenotypes of clinical and molecular changes in dementia

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Eligibility

Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree in a neuroscience related discipline (e.g., Psychology or other) with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.
Applicants must be able to support themselves financially whilst living in Sydney for the duration of the degree and managing all expenses (including university fees)

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New neuroimaging methods and applications

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Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree in a neuroscience related discipline (e.g., Psychology or other) with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.
Applicants must be able to support themselves financially whilst living in Sydney for the duration of the degree and managing all expenses (including university fees)

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Neuroimmunology Team (based on the Westmead/Baludarri Precinct)

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Postgraduate Research in CNS neuroinflammation

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Eligibility

Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.

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Professor Fabienne Brilot-Turville

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Postgraduate Research in the risk of relapse of MOG antibody-associated disease

(translational science: wet laboratory and clinical data analysis)

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Eligibility

Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.

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Professor Fabienne Brilot-Turville

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Postgraduate Research in the neuroinflammation of neurodevelopmental disorders

Supervisor

Professor Russell Dale

Eligibility

Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.

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Professor Russell Dale

Neurotherapeutic Innovations Team (Dementia and Motor Neurone Disease)

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PhD project:

Identifying disease-specific changes that drive dementia and motor neuron disease and reliable blood biomarkers of underlying pathobiology

Supervisor

Dr Rachel Tan

Eligibility

Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.

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Dr Rachel Tan

Social Functioning Modelling (Dementia and Motor Neuron Disease)

Opportunity

PhD project:

Role of the CYLD gene in dementia and motor neuron disease

Supervisor

Dr Carol Dobson-Stone

Eligibility

Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.

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Dr Carol Dobson-Stone

Translational Neuroimmunology (Autoimmune)

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Postgraduate Research opportunities (Masters, PhD) in Autoimmune Neurology

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Eligibility

For Clinical Projects – Applicants must be undertaking or have completed their Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) (with sub-specialisation in neurology or immunology)
For Basic Science Projects - Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.

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