Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital

Our Research

The Department of Medicine undertakes research in pre-clinical, clinical and population science across a broad range of areas. The unifying theme of our research is Diabetes, focusing on metabolic medicine as it applies to renal and cardiovascular disease.

The ultimate goal for our research is to improve the treatment of human disease. As a clinical department of the University of Melbourne, we ensure that our research is driven by clinically relevant questions and that it is designed to discover better therapies.

The department actively promotes research in the hospital setting by funding and supporting research positions in affiliated hospital departments, ensuring research activity is encouraged in Rheumatology, Haematology, Endocrinology, Clinical Neurosciences, Nephrology, Dermatology, Gastroenterology, Clinical Pharmacology and Cardiology.

Our Research Groups

Our Research Groups Leaders
Adult Stem Cell Biology and Cell Based Therapies Assoc Prof Darren Kelly
Clinical, Epidemiological and Economic Studies of Therapeutics Assoc Prof Danny Liew
Diabetes, Renal and Cardiovascular Disease in Population Groups Dr Allison Hodge
Dietary Interventions Dr Allison Hodge
Gastrointestinal Physiology and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Prof Michael Kamm
Glucose Transporter Biology Dr Suzanne Rogers
Inflammation, Thrombosis and Phosphoinositide Signalling Assoc Prof Harshal Nandurkar
Macrovascular and Microvascular Complications of Diabetes Assoc Prof Alicia Jenkins
Novel therapies for Cardiac and Renal Disease Assoc Prof Darren Kelly
Translational Cardiovascular Biology Dr Andrew Wilson

 

For further details of our research activities please have a look at our research group webpages or contact us at enquiries @ medstv.unimelb.edu.au

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