TRIALS IN TREATING STIs, VACCINES AND LIPID LOWERING MEDICATIONS
Dr Pi Lip Seet,
Principal Investigator
Paratus Clinical, Brisbane &
Surgical Registrar
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
RESEARCHER PROFILE
Filmed in Brisbane | March 2026
Dr Pi Lip Seet graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, after completing a Bachelor of Biomedical Science at the University of Newcastle. He has undertaken broad hospital-based training across Queensland and the ACT, with clinical experience in Emergency Medicine, General and Orthopaedic Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Intensive Care and Coronary Care.
Since joining Paratus Clinical Research in 2022, Dr Seet has served as both Principal Investigator and Sub-Investigator across Phase I–IV industry-sponsored clinical trials. His research experience spans vaccines, immunology, cardiovascular and endocrine disease, respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, pain management, sleep medicine and adult psychiatry. He has been involved in multiple vaccine development programs, including RSV, influenza, COVID-19, herpes zoster and pneumococcal studies.
Dr Seet maintains current Good Clinical Practice certification and advanced life support training. With a strong foundation in acute and procedural medicine, he is committed to delivering high-quality, ethical clinical research, ensuring participant safety while supporting the advancement of innovative therapeutic and vaccine programs.
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Exercise therapy for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
Dr Shelley Keating is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Exercise Physiology and Accredited Exercise Physiologist from the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland. With a strong grounding in exercise metabolism and body composition, Dr Keating’s research centres on the utility of exercise as a therapy for obesity and related cardiometabolic conditions, notably metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD).
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Interventions for improving outcomes of children who are deaf or hard of hearing
Dr Rithin Nedumannil (MBBS, MPH, FRACP, FRCPA) is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, undertaking his doctoral studies in collaboration with the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (Cambridge, UK) and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Melbourne, Australia). He is a clinical haematologist and haematopathologist with current appointments at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Austin Health and Northern Health.
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Food and fasting periods as medicine to prevent disease
Professor Leonie Heilbronn is based at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), where she leads the Obesity and Metabolism laboratory. Her research is at the interface between basic and clinical science. She is internationally recognised for her work in nutritional modulation in humans and has made major contributions to our current understanding of mechanisms underlying conditions such as insulin resistance, particularly inflammation and lipid metabolism. She has also contributed significantly to current concepts of caloric restriction (CR), intermittent fasting (IF) and time restricted eating (TRE) in humans. She has published more than 110 peer reviewed papers in scientific journals and is an Associate Editor of Obesity, and Obesity Research and Clinical Practice.
