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Brain Sciences UNSW is a University Institute comprised of researchers interested in collaborative, cross-disciplinary research with the purpose of better understanding normal and abnormal brain functioning.
Brain Sciences UNSW includes leading researchers with interests in the basic neurosciences, psychiatry, psychology, drug and alcohol, neurology, neurosurgery, biomedical engineering and mathematics.
- Congratulations to Neuroscience Research Australia who received a $6 million funding boost from the NSW Government. This will contribute to fit out the state-of-the-art neuroscience research facility on the Prince of Wales hospital campus. This announcement was part of a $16 million funding injection for the Randwick medical precinct, including UNSW. > further details
- Congratulations to Professor Glenda Halliday on being awarded the 2011 Nina Kondelas Prize (awarded to a female neuroscientist for outstanding contribution to basic or clinical neuroscience research) from the Australian Neuroscience Society; Dr Ehsan Arabzadeh on being awarded the 2011 AW Campbell Award from the Australian Neuroscience Society
- Dean's Awards 2010 - Congratulations to Professor Margaret Morris who was awarded the highest honour, Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research > further details
- NHMRC & ARC grant success for 2011. More than $10.47 million to brain sciences researchers at UNSW > further details
- Congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Michelle Moulds who was named as the Young Tall Poppy of the Year, 2010.
- Congratulations to Scientia Professor Perminder Sachdev who has won the NSW Scientist of the Year 2010 Award for Biomedical Sciences
- ARC Linkage grant success, June 2010. Congratulations to: Prof Mark Dadds, Dr David Hawes, Assoc. Prof John Brennan; "Development of a comprehensive model and programmed intervention for emotion processing deficits in childhood-onset mental health problems" ($371,572); Dr Thomas Denson, Dr Lisa Zadro, Assoc. Prof Michelle Moulds; "Psychological factors that lead to risky, aggressive, and impaired driving" ($300,000).
- Congratulations to Prof Gary Housley for securing an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant with support from Cochlear Ltd to develop a better performing next-generation cochlear implant device ($1.48m over five years).
- NHMRC & ARC grant success for 2010. More than $14.6 million to brain sciences researchers at UNSW > further details
- LIEF ARC grant success for 2010. Congratulations to: Prof Caroline Rae et al; "State-of-the-art upgrade to multi-transmit multi-receive technology for research dedicated 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner" ($400,000); Dr Pall Thordarson et al; "A unique soft matter high-performance scanning probe microscopy (HP-SPM) facility" ($450,000).
- Congratulations to the following brain sciences researchers who have been awarded the Dean's Rising Star Awards 2009: Rebecca Bertrand (SOMS - Physiology); Jane Carland (SOMS - Physiology); Carol Dobson-Stone (SOMS/POWMRI); Melissa Green (Psychiatry); Nickolai Titov (Psychiatry/St Vincents); Eryn Werry (Brain Sciences UNSW/ POWMRI).
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