Howard Florey Institute: Frederick Mendelsohn

Professor Frederick Mendelsohn

AO MB BS MD PhD FRACP FAA

Director, Howard Florey Institute
R Douglas Wright Professor of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne

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MB BS (Melbourne) 1965
PhD (Melbourne) 1972
MD (Melbourne) 1973
Fellow, Royal Australian College of Physicians (1974)
Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (2003 – present)
Director, the Howard Florey Institute (1997 – present)
R Douglas Wright Professor of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, The University of Melbourne (1977 – present)

Personal Chair in Medicine at The University of Melbourne (1990-96)
Scientific Director of the Positron Emission Tomography Centre at the Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria (1992-96)
Reader in Medicine at The University of Melbourne (1981-90)
Senior Consultant Physician in General Medical at the Austin Hospital (1977-96)
Honorary Consultant Physician, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Heidelberg, Victoria (1996 - present)

Selwyn Smith Prize from The University of Melbourne for the best contribution to medicine over the previous three years (1985)
Fellow, Council for High Blood Pressure Research, American Heart Association (1985 - present)
Maître de Conferences, College de France, Paris (1993-94)
Chairman, Angiotensin Gordon Conference USA (1998)
Member of the National Health & Medical Research Council Research Committee (1997-99)
Member of the Wills Committee on Health and Medical Research Strategic Review (1998-2000)
President, Australian Neuroscience Society (2002-2003)
Eccles Lecturer, Australian Neuroscience Society and the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia (2001)
Order of Australia, Officer in the General Division (2004)

Application of basic molecular, cellular neuroscience and biophysics to neurological and psychiatric disorders
Roles of neuropeptides in nervous system
Central actions of angiotensin peptides

Interested in increasing government and public funding for science and improving career prospects for young scientists.
Transcript of Prof Mendelsohn's Maintain Your Brain presentation - The neuroscience revolution: an overview of recent discoveries

Please see PubMed.

Australian scientists have shown that mental and physical exercise can improve coordination and...

In 2002, 40,000 Australians were diagnosed with schizophrenia.