Brain And Mind Centre

11/12/2025

PERIscope Commercialisation Awards 🏆 Congrats to Dr Ann-Na Cho, Dr Hannah Bowrey and Dr Morgan James of Brain and Mind Centre

14 teams in total received funding and training to accelerate the translation of research into real-world impact.



Dr Morgan James and Dr Hannah Bowrey. Project: A novel, first-in-class pharmaceutical to treat binge eating disorder

Dr Ann-Na Cho and Henry Howard. Project: 'Brain on a chip' to study life-changing conditions like dementia and epilepsy and develop personalised treatments

Both projects are sponsored by the Sydney Biomedical Accelerator.

The program is run by the Sydney Knowledge Hub, the University of Sydney’s startup incubator and research commercialisation hub that bridges the gap between research and industry.

Sydney Health

University of Sydney

10/12/2025

Congratulations to A/Prof Frank Iorfino and Christine Song - recipients of University of Sydney 2025 Vice-Chancellor's Awards ⭐

Congratulations to the 68 award recipients – 13 individuals and 7 teams – who were honoured this year.



🏆 A/Prof Frank Iorfino received the Early Career Researcher of the Year award

🏆The Fast Track Contracts Collaboration Team received a Better Place to Work award - congrats to Yun Ju Christine Song from the team (Medicine and Health - University of Sydney, Central Clinical School)

All recipients -> https://lnkd.in/gXbVtb_S

08/12/2025

This project will invesitgate whether the brain orexin system drives overeating, anxiety, and sleep disruption in Prader-Willi Syndrome. This research could fast-track existing orexin medications (already used for insomnia) toward improving daily life for people with PWS.

17/11/2025

Congratulations to Prof Ian Hickie AO and Prof Glenda Halliday, two of twenty-five academics from the University of Sydney named in the annual Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers List, recognising the most influential researchers whose papers rank in the top one percent of citations for their field.

🏆Professor Glenda Halliday | is a neuroscientist and research neuropathologist, specialising in neurodegeneration. Professor Halliday is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow, recognising her influential work to improve outcomes for patients with Parkinson’s disease, alcohol toxicity, dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal dementia and motor degenerative diseases. She was named NSW Scientist of the Year in 2022.

Professor Ian Hickie | Co-Director of Health and Policy at the Brain and Mind Centre, has led major public health campaigns in Australia to support early intervention for young people with mental health conditions, based on his extensive research, clinical expertise, and co-designed with young Australians. He is supported by an NHMRC L3, Investigator Grant.

Read the full list: https://lnkd.in/gMA-6vmZ

Sydney Health University of Sydney

07/11/2025

🏆Congratulations to BMC researchers awarded ARC Discovery Projects!

🥇Dr Nathan Cross and Prof Sharon Naismith, AM Naismith, $818,348

🥇Prof Anthony Don and A/Prof Laura Piccio, $729,747

🥇Prof Olivier Piguet, A/Prof Ramón Landin-Romero and Dr Marshal Dalton, $716,079

University of Sydney academics were awarded $38.6M to lead Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects, culminating in 51 research projects to strengthen Australia's economy, environment, health and society. The total awarded to USYD researchers is almost 10 per cent of all funding awarded for the 2026 scheme.

Read more> https://bit.ly/4qS7nuc

Sydney Health

Discover how University of Sydney are improving health and wellbeing, advancing technology and data science, and protecting our environment and society

09/10/2025

15/09/2025

Join University of Sydney experts to explore healthy ageing, new research into the ethics and science of dementia prevention.

Featuring Brain And Mind Centre researchers Eleanor Drummond and Olivier Piguet, along with sociologist Gilbert Knaggs from University of Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and host Elfy Scott.

Register now: http://srkr.io/6188g9s

15/09/2025

Dementia Action Week 2025 begins today, highlighting the importance of strong support networks for people living with dementia and their families.

At the MCA, we believe in the power of art to connect, uplift and include through our Artful: Art and Dementia program – developed in collaboration with the Brain And Mind Centre and Dementia Australia

In the spirit of this year’s theme, 'Nobody Can Do It Alone', we invite you to join us next month for Artful Community Day – a celebration of creativity, community and care through art-making and sharing. Everyone is welcome.

A special thank you to The Wicking Trust and Platypus Asset Management for their support of this important program.

Learn more about Artful: https://www.mca.com.au/events-programs/calendar/artful-community-day/

Access Dementia Action Week resources: https://www.dementia.org.au/get-involved/dementia-action-week -action-week-resources

15/09/2025

Congratulations to the recipients of the Brain and Mind Centre Accelerating Services, Equipment and Operations (ASEO) scheme, which supports the total or partial cost of equipment and/or operational expenses to support research activity ✔️

🏆 A/Prof Rachel Tan
🏆Dr Dongang Wang
🏆Dr Morgan James
🏆A/Prof Ramon Landin-Romero
🏆Dr Glenn Yamakawa

Read more -> https://bit.ly/47EnWTg

Sydney Health

Congratulations to the recipients of the Brain and Mind Centre Foundational Research Awards and ASEO scheme recipients. The Foundational Research Award aims to catalyze basic science/foundational research in neuroscience by providing targeted seed funding, while the Accelerating Services, Equipment....

15/09/2025

University of Sydney partners with Siemens Healthineers on $9M MRI research capability ✅🤝

📰https://bit.ly/MRIresearchcapability

New world-leading MRI technology will unlock unprecedented medical imaging capabilities for researchers, clinicians and industry.

The Cima.X 3T MRI Clinical Research Facility delivers imaging capabilities not previously available in NSW, strengthening the state’s capacity for advanced medical research and clinical translation.

Prof Sharon Naismith, AM heads the Healthy Brain Ageing Program, University of Sydney Program at the Brain and Mind Centre, a one-of-its kind intervention research clinic for dementia. Naismith will be one of the first researchers to have access to the new scanner.

“This MRI technology will allow us to use sophisticated new methods to determine how this brain area works and changes and help us understand when and why sleep problems happen during dementia and guide us toward better treatments in the future.”

Sydney Health

11/09/2025

Congratulations to the recipients of the Brain and Mind Centre Foundational Research Awards. The Foundational Research Award aims to catalyse basic science/foundational research in neuroscience by providing targeted seed funding.

Congrats 🏆

- Prof Mary Collins Chebib
- Dr Carol Dobson-Stone
- Dr Sicong Tu

Read now ✅ https://bit.ly/BMCFoundationalASEOAwards25

Sydney Health

Congratulations to the recipients of the Brain and Mind Centre Foundational Research Awards and ASEO scheme recipients. The Foundational Research Award aims to catalyze basic science/foundational research in neuroscience by providing targeted seed funding, while the Accelerating Services, Equipment....

01/07/2025

Groundbreaking research by the University of Sydney has identified a new brain protein involved in the development of ’s disease and a way to modify it, paving the way for future treatments for the disease.