2025/2026 Student Research Projects
Honours, masters and PhD opportunities are available at Centenary across many projects and laboratories for students studying at The University of Sydney. Full list available below.
Honours Projects
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Directed evolution of liver hormones to enhance metabolism
Primary Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Hesselson
Supervisory Team: Dr Alex Cole
Centre: Biomedical AI
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Enhancing the durability of stem cell-derived islets for type 1 diabetes
Primary Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Hesselson
Supervisory Team: Lise Hunault
Centre: Biomedical AI
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Novel delivery systems to empower complete repair after a heart attack
Primary Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Hesselson
Supervisory Team: Manuela Florido
Centre: Biomedical AI
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Identifying Circulating Tumour Cells through patient liquid biopsies
Primary Supervisor: Dr Dannel Yeo
Supervisory Team: Anna Leach, Christine Lee
Centre: Cancer Innovations
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Investigating proteases in chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Bobby Boumelhem
Supervisory Team: Professor Mark Gorrell; Dr. Jiali Carrie Huang
Centre: Cancer Innovations
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Mechanisms of epithelial stratification
Primary Supervisor: Associate Professor Guy Lyons
Supervisory Team: Guy Lyons, Mojdeh Abbasi
Centre: Cancer Innovations
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The evolution of cancer cell clones
Primary Supervisor: Associate Professor Guy Lyons
Supervisory Team: Guy Lyons, Seaky Lim, Mojdeh Abbasi
Centre: Cancer Innovations -
Treatment of corneal blindness using stem cells
Primary Supervisor: Associate Professor Guy Lyons
Supervisory Team: Guy Lyons, Seaky Lim, Mojdeh Abbasi
Centre: Cancer Innovations
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Epigenetic-directed anti-inflammatory drug development
Primary Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Sharifi Tabar
Supervisory Team: Dr Chuck Bailey
Centre: Rare Diseases & Gene Therapy
Phd Projects
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Directed evolution of liver hormones to enhance metabolism
Primary Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Hesselson
Supervisory Team: Dr Alex Cole
Centre: Biomedical AI -
Enhancing the durability of stem cell-derived islets for type 1 diabetes
Primary Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Hesselson
Supervisory Team: Lise Hunault
Centre: Biomedical AI -
Novel delivery systems to empower complete repair after a heart attack
Primary Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Hesselson
Supervisory Team: Manuela Florido
Centre: Biomedical AI -
Tumour-activated cancer immunotherapies
Primary Supervisor: Associate Professor Daniel Hesselson
Supervisory Team: Dr Alex Cole
Centre: Biomedical AI -
Identifying Circulating Tumour Cells through patient liquid biopsies
Primary Supervisor: Dr Dannel Yeo
Supervisory Team: Anna Leach, Christine Lee
Centre: Cancer Innovations -
Applying genetic risk algorithm to identify patients at high risk of chronic liver diseases
Primary Supervisor: Clinical Professor Devanshi Seth
Supervisory Team: Clinical Professor Devanshi Seth
Centre: Healthy Ageing -
A novel nanoparticle platform targeting hepatic lipotoxicity to attenuate fatty liver diseases
Primary Supervisor: Clinical Professor Devanshi Seth
Supervisory Team: Professor Marcela Bilek, Dr Bobby Boumelh
Centre: Healthy Ageing
