Research and Discovery Programs
Research and Discovery Programs
What we do
The Central Clinical School (CCS) is based at the Alfred Research Alliance (A+) precinct and is a centre for clinical and biomedical research and education, offering medical education, undergraduate and postgraduate study programs. CCS researchers investigate both the basic biological mechanisms of our body (how things work) and the clinical translation of this research (how to fix them when they go wrong).
Discovery Programs
Bladder and Kidney Health Discovery Program
We're a multidisciplinary science and medical consortium striving to improve our understanding of health conditions affecting the urinary tract (urethra, bladder, ureters and kidneys). Our program aims to discover new therapies for urinary tract infections, rare diseases (e.g. cystinuria), diabetic kidney disease, renal transplantation and cancer.
Gastroenterology, Immunology and Neuroscience (GIN)
The Gastroenterology, Immunology and Neuroscience (GIN) Discovery Program is a transdisciplinary consortium working to improve our understanding of the gut-immune-brain axis and to create solutions to combat complex health conditions.
Our expertise
See our publications for detail of the research, and our news page for feature articles of our research.
For specific research programs at CCS, refer to the CCS centres and departments home pages.
Registries
Bariatric Surgery Registry
The primary aim of the Bariatric Surgery Registry is to measure outcomes for patients undergoing bariatric surgery across public and private hospitals in Australia and New Zealand.
CoviDiab Registry
This registry is specifically designed to establish the extent and characteristics of new-onset, COVID-19-related diabetes, and to investigate its pathogenesis, management and outcomes.
NeuroCOVID-19 Registry
The Australia and New Zealand NeuroCOVID-19 data registry is a rapid data collection framework that captures cases of COVID-19 infected people with neurological symptoms or those with pre-existing chronic neurological disorders.
Education - Undergraduate and Postgraduate
Considering Honours, Masters or PhD research? We offer cutting-edge courses in biomedical sciences, psychiatry, immunology, trauma, surgery and more.
Collaborations
CCS is co-located with a number of Victoria’s premier research institutions, its sister school within the Monash University sub faculty of Translational Medicine and Public Health at the A+ precinct, the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (SPHPM) and Alfred Health.
Our researchers work collaboratively in basic, clinical and population based biomedical research, which speeds up the translation of research into clinical practice.
CCS has extensive collaborations (see graphic to right) not only with its precinct partners, but nationally and worldwide with external research organisations, industry and health providers.