Media enquiries

For media comment and enquiries, please contact the relevant researcher as listed below.

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Clinical research

Name Contact details Areas of expertise
Dr Michael Barnett
Neurologist
T: 02 9351 0730
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  • Neurology
A/Prof Renee Bittoun
Director, Smoking Research Unit
T: 02 9351 0817
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  • Smoking cessation
Dr Adam Guastella
Clinical Psychologist
T: 02 9351 0539
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  • Anxiety
Prof Ian Hickie
Executive Director, BMRI Professor of Psychiatry
T: 02 9351 0810
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  • Substance use and psychosis
  • Youth mental health
Prof Tim Lambert
Director, Schizophrenia Research Group
T: 02 9351 0721
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  • Treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis (psychopharmacology, new drugs,etc)
  • Physical health in those with mental health problems (diabetes etc)
  • Problems of adherence (accepting and taking treatments)
  • Treatment resistance (incomplete recovery)
Dr Simon Lewis
Neurologist
Director, Parkinson's Disease Research Clinic. Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience
T: 02 9351 0672
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  • Parkinson's disease
  • Dementia
  • Functional neuroimaging
Dr Sharon Naismith
Head, Clinical Research Unit Clinical Neuropsychologist
T: 02 9351 0781
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  • Clinical neuropsychology
A/Prof Naomi Rogers
Director, Chronobiology & Sleep Research Group
T: 02 9351 0892
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  • Chronobiology
  • Sleep / Sleep Loss
  • Circadian disruption
Dr Elizabeth Scott
Director, The Clinical Centre
T: 02 9351 0672
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  • General enquiries

Basic science research

Name Contact details Areas of expertise
Prof Richard Banati
Head, Pharmacology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry Laboratory
T: 02 9351 0725
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  • Pharmacology
  • Neurobiology
  • Psychiatry research
Prof Tom Becker T: 02 9351 0997
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  • Genetic disease
  • genetic risk factor
  • developmental disorder
Prof MacDonald Christie
Director, Pain Management Laboratory
T: 02 9351 0899
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  • Pain management
Prof Jürgen Götz
Director, Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Disease Laboratory
T: 02 9351 0789
E:
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Frontotemporal dementia
Prof Simon Hawke
Director, Prion Disease Laboratory
Director, National Multiple Sclerosis Brain Bank
T: 02 9351 0846
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  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Prion diseases such as CJD and mad cow disease (BSE)
  • Virus infections of the brain
  • Neurodegeneration
A/Prof Michael Kassiou
Head, Drug Discovery Research Unit
T: 02 9351 0849
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  • Drug discovery
  • Designing new drugs for the treatment of brain disease
Prof Steven Meikle
Head, Imaging Physics Laboratory
T: 02 9351 0725
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  • Medical imaging and medical imaging physics
  • Positron emission tomography (PET)
  • Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
  • Nuclear medicine