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Professor Ingrid Scheffer has just been awarded the title of Laureate for the Asia-Pacific region and is only the third Australian to receive this prestigious award.
FNI’s senior research scientist in the Neurodegeneration division, Dr. Davor Stanic recently had his research featured on the cover of the Journal of Comparative Neurology.
As well as winning the State award in 2010, the Florey’s Fundraising team has now won the top spot in the Fundraising Institute of Australia (FIA) National Awards for Excellence in the category Bequests Campaign, Division B (organisations with annual revenue above $5 million).
FNI’s Fundraising team has won the Fundraising Institute of Australia (FIA) Victorian Award for Excellence in the category Bequests Campaign, Division B (organisations with annual revenue above $5 million).
The Brain Fitness Challenge proudly presented trophies to winning competitors of the 2010 Challenge and officially launched the 2011 Challenge at a lavish cocktail function last February.
One of the more popular sayings in the fitness world is, "if you don't use it, you'll lose it." It refers to any muscle you have managed to build, but also any gains you've experienced in fitness. The benefits for using it are well known. Being fit and healthy means you'll have more energy, sleep better and be less likely to suffer from depression. But what good…
Renowned British neurophysiologist, Professor Tim Bliss presents the 14th Kenneth Myer Lecture. He touches on the understanding of cellular mechanisms and how they work with our memories, memory enhancing drugs for the treatment of memory disorders, and our current understanding of the molecular machinery of memory.
Rick Stannard is obsessed with puzzles. He does them watching television, travelling on trams and walking down the street. ''I always have a Sudoku book with me,'' he says. ''I find every minute I can for it. ''Sometimes it reminds me of playing music because you can get to the point where you understand the puzzle master's thinking. It gives you this…
SOME of Australia’s best medical minds celebrated 40 years of ground-breaking research at the Austin Hospital Medical Research Foundation. Director Stephen Harrap said Heidelberg was home to one of Victoria’s top medical research precincts. “The foundation has helped draw some of the best researchers to Heidelberg, having donated $7.23 million to support over 690…
ONE day, scientists say, they might run out of problems to solve — much as the explorers ran out of continents to discover — but that day is a distant prospect for neuroscientists. If science is exploration, then the brain is the final frontier — and explaining brain disease, as a concept, remains a great impasse.
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
