The Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) was successful in the latest round of funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). In March 2015, the Minister for Health, the Hon Sussan Ley MP, announced that CHeBA will receive an NHMRC program grant worth… Read More
One of the biggest global public health challenges in human history is that of dementia. The idea that we can defeat dementia is gripping the entire world, and the answer may be in big data research led by the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at the University of New… Read More
A Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) Better Brain. Better Life forum kicked off the events for Seniors’ Month at Rockdale City Council on 4 March 2015.
The Better Brain. Better Life forums, sponsored by Genworth, are a series of public forums with talks by leading experts… Read More
Dr Julia Muenchhoff, post-doctoral research fellow in the Proteomics group at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), has been awarded a Rebecca L. Cooper Foundation Medical Research Grant of $21,000 for her project Apolipoprotein levels and post-translational modifications… Read More
The World Dementia Council (WDC) has made dementia risk reduction 1 of their 5 priority areas of work.
On 29 January, the WDC issued a statement calling upon governments to adopt a risk reduction approach in public health policies and campaigns, and to increase investment for… Read More
Researchers have identified genes associated with people’s general cognitive function – how we process information.
An international team including researchers from the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at UNSW Australia found significant small signals from four genetic… Read More
An international study including researchers from the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at UNSW Australia has provided insight into the causes of variability in human brain development. Reported in Nature this week, the identification of five genetic variants that… Read More
An international research team including brain scientists from the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at UNSW has discovered two common genetic variants that are believed to be associated with memory performance.
The findings from the largest study of the genetics of memory… Read More
Dr Karen Mather, Leader of the Genetics and Genomics Group at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), along with Associate Professor Wei Wen And Dr Anbu Thalamuthu and three other eminent national and international researchers, recently received a 2015 UNSW Goldstar Award… Read More
Each year UNSW Medicine celebrates the diverse achievements of staff through the Dean’s Awards.
CHeBA's Co-Directors, Professor Henry Brodaty and Professor Perminder Sachdev, have jointly been awarded the 2014 UNSW Medicine Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement. This is the… Read More
Five hundred seniors filled the auditorium at The Juniors in Kingsford to discover the benefits of social connection for successful ageing on 12 November 2014. The forum, “Connecting for Successful Ageing”, was a joint project of the Aged Care Psychiatry Service, Eastern Suburbs… Read More
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) recently announced its 2014 grant recipients, including $18 million for research to improve understanding, treatment and prevention of dementia.
Professor Perminder Sachdev, Co-Director of the Centre for Healthy… Read More
Washington. 1984. A small band of pioneers and experts came together with stars in their eyes and one dream in their minds: “a better life for people with dementia and their carers”.
30 years later, the vision is unchanged and the passion unwavering.
Started by Professor Henry… Read More
Dementia, characterised by a steady decline in our thinking ability and the eventual loss of our identity, is one of the diseases we fear most.
Despite it costing more than $5 billion a year to the health and aged care system, and registering as the third leading cause of… Read More
Leader of CHeBA's Genetics and Genomics group, researcher Dr Karen Mather, has received a $20,000 post-doctoral excellence award from the Yulgilbar Foundation, as part of a $10 million philanthropic initiative to find a cure Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr Mather’s research project… Read More
