Brain And Mind Centre

09/04/2026

The Global Low-and Middle-Income Country Register (GLM CPR) is a multi-country network of cerebral palsy (CP) registers, co-led by the Cerebral Palsy Alliance (CPA) in collaboration with more than 85 partner institutions, and constructed to reduce the evidence gap and promote need-based services that bring meaningful change to the lives of millions of individuals with CP living in Low-Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).

Since 2017, GLM CPR has built a collaborative network across 28 LMICs, registering 11,800+ children, generating the first comparable CP data in these settings, and linking over 9,200 children to essential services. The network has also shown that 70% of CP cases are potentially preventable, reshaping global prevention efforts.

Cerebral Palsy Alliance is a long-standing affiliate and partner of Brain and Mind Centre, and its mission is strongly aligned to the our Child Neurodevelopment stream of research.

Cerebral palsy (CP) affects an estimated 50 million children globally.

Read more> https://www.glmcpr.org/

University of Sydney Sydney Health

The Gobal Low and Middle Income Cerebral Palsy Register (GLM CPR) is a collaborative network involving a group of organisations and individuals with no documented obligations. Our purpose is to collect and share information, resources, tools, and lessons and enhance communication and support.

08/04/2026

08/04/2026

🚨 The Snow Medical Research Foundation (Snow Medical) invests $24 million in new research fellows across three institutions

Congratulations to A/Professor Sudarshini Ramanathan from the Neuroimmunology research team at Brain and Mind Centre who secured a Snow Fellowship, which provides $8 million over eight years.

A/Prof Sudarshini Ramanathan is a neurologist and clinician scientist whose work focuses on autoimmune neurological disorders. Her research has helped identify new neurological syndromes and improve diagnostic tools and treatments for patients with autoimmune diseases affecting the brain, spinal cord, muscles and nerves.

Read -> https://lnkd.in/g3qhFXEC

Sydney Health University of Sydney

01/04/2026

Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Brain and Mind Centre’s Emerging Researcher Awards (ERs). 5 recipients were awarded ERs.

📰 Read more> https://bit.ly/BMCSchemes26

Emerging Researcher Awards:

🏆Dr Samuel L. W. from the Social Functioning Modelling research team.

🏆Dr Lewis Crawford from the Translational Psychopharmacology research team.

🏆Dr Dilushi Chandrakumar from the Technology Addition research team.

🏆Dr Zoe Menczel Schrire from the Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases research team.

🏆Dr Jake Crouse from the Youth Mental Health and Technology research team.

Sydney Health Faculty of Science, University of Sydney University of Sydney

Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Brain and Mind Centre’s Engagement Collaborative Grants (ECGs) and Emerging Researcher awards (ERs). 4 successful recipients were awarded Engagement Collaborative Grants, and 5 recipients were awarded Emerging Researcher Awards.

31/03/2026

Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Brain and Mind Centre’s Engagement Collaborative Grants (ECGs). 4 successful recipients were awarded.

📰 Read more> https://bit.ly/BMCSchemes26

ECG Recipients:

🏆 A/Prof Melissa Sharpe from the School of Psychology and the Centre for Psychology and Cognition (CPC) will be collaborating with Dr Morgan James.

🏆 Dr Lipin Loo from the School of Life and Environmental Sciences and the Drug Discovery Initiative (DDI) will collaborate with Prof Kevin Keay.

🏆 Dr Shaikh Nayeem Faisal from the School of Biomedical Engineering, will be collaborating with A/Prof Paul Austin.

🏆 Dr Kevin Law from the School of Medical Sciences and the Centre for Psychology and Cognition (CPC) will collaborate with Dr Lewis Crawford.

"This grant provides a pivotal boost to our spatial multi‑omics program, enabling us to generate high‑resolution molecular maps of chronic pain circuits. These data will significantly accelerate our efforts to develop targeted, non‑opioid therapeutics and strengthen new collaborative links across the Brain and Mind Centre." - says Lipin Loo.

University of Sydney Faculty of Science, University of Sydney Sydney Health

23/03/2026

⭐ Welcome to our new Co-Director Professor Ben Colagiuri ⭐

We sat down to talk to Ben about his new role and what he's looking forward to at Brain and Mind Centre

Read our 'In Conversation with Ben' here -> https://bit.ly/InConversationwithBen

Ben says, 'What makes BMC unique is that it genuinely spans bench-to-bedside. We have world-class discovery research - from basic neuroscience to animal studies - right through to clinical services, clinical trials, and policy impact.'

University of Sydney

08/03/2026

Happy International Women's Day ⭐

We’re celebrating leadership from established research leaders to the next generation shaping what’s possible at Brain and Mind Centre.

We’re proud to recognise women in senior leadership roles across our research teams, alongside the leaders of tomorrow, our Early‑ and Mid‑Career Researchers who contribute their expertise, ideas and advocacy through the BMC EMCR Committee.

By valuing leadership at every career stage, we reaffirm our commitment to equity, visibility and opportunity for women in research, and to building a future where diverse voices lead meaningful change in brain and mind science.





Sydney Health University of Sydney Faculty of Science, University of Sydney

23/02/2026

🗣️How a new category of autism diagnosis could change disability support

The proposed diagnosis will allow services to plan and deliver support for autistic children with greater needs but means repeat assessments for those diagnosed before eight years old.

Dr Kelsie Boulton, Dr Marie Antoinette Hodge and Dr Rebecca Sutherland for The Conversation Australia + NZ

Researchers from University of Sydney, Sydney Health, and Child Neurodevelopment research team at Brain and Mind Centre found that when it comes to , few questions spark as much debate as how best to support autistic people with the greatest needs.

This prompted The Lancet Group medical journal to commission a group of international experts to propose a new category of “profound autism”.

Read -> https://lnkd.in/gksRD2ff

16/02/2026

🫂🧠Dementia advocates demand

Dementia Roundtable - Last week, clinicians, researchers, advocates, and those living with or caring for someone with dementia met on Wednesday to discuss a national dementia navigation model.

Australia’s leading brain health experts warn that anything less than full commitment to dementia navigators would be a “failure” as the nation’s death rates soar.

Scientia Professor Brodaty from the UNSW Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) (CHeBA) – along with Professor Lee-Fay Low from the University of Sydney and Dementia Australia – put in a formal submission to the NSW Government for a Dementia Navigator Network.

The $24.5m proposal is a key ask and would allow support workers to be embedded in all 15 Local Health Districts across the state.

A co-designed national Dementia Navigation Model is currently being worked on.

Read story -> https://lnkd.in/dHXPY8E9

11/02/2026

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we’re celebrating our researchers.

Photographed below: A/Prof Rachel Tan, Co-leader of the Neurotherapeutic Innovations research team.



University of Sydney Sydney Health