WEHI Parkinsons’s Disease Special Seminar hosted by Professor Grant Dewson

Prof Glenda Halliday AC FAA FAHMS

NHMRC Leadership Fellow – School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health – The University of Sydney

Pathophysiology of Parkinson’s and related disorders – Making sense of biomarkers and co-pathology

 

L7W Seminar Room

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Including Q&A session

Prof Glenda Halliday is a neuroscientist, research neuropathologist and NHMRC Leadership Fellow at the University of Sydney specialising in neurodegeneration.

Prof Halliday has made pioneering contributions to understanding age-related neurodegenerative diseases. Her research has revealed anatomical, biochemical, molecular and genetic characteristics of several neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Parkinson’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. Her work has changed international diagnostic criteria, provided differentiating characteristics for neurological diseases and developed disease staging schemes. Her research has discovered new disease mechanisms now being used to develop diagnostic protocols and potential therapies.

Prof Halliday has received the NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Investigator Grant Award for Leadership in Clinical Medicine and Science and Robert A. Pritzker Prize for Leadership in Parkinson’s Research.^. She was named NSW Scientist of the Year in 2022 and Companion of the Order of Australia in 2023 recognising her research on neurodegenerative diseases.

All welcome!