UNSW's first cross-faculty Professor
16th March 2005
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| Professor Lindy Rae |
The University of New South Wales has announced the first of its new cross-faculty Professorships. The Professorships are designed to promote emerging areas of research and transcend traditional boundaries between disciplines.
Leading Australian biochemist Caroline (Lindy) Rae, who is internationally recognised for her expertise in magnetic resonance, has been appointed NewSouth Global Professor in Brain Sciences, based at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute. The five-year appointment will be announced at the launch of Brain Sciences UNSW, during Brain Awareness Week.
Brain Sciences UNSW is a new initiative involving researchers from the Faculties of Medicine and Science, the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, the Black Dog Institute and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research (neurobiology program).
“The appointment of Professor Rae is a coup for UNSW,” said UNSW Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mark Wainwright. “One of her demonstrated strengths is innovative interdisciplinary neuroscience research. We are trying to achieve just this sort of broad collaboration with all the cross-faculty Professorships.”
"The $6 million development of the Mayne Clinical Research Imaging Centre at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute provides access to world leading technology for brain imaging studies,” said Professor Peter Schofield from the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute. “Using this research capacity, the partnership with Brain Sciences UNSW provides the platform by which we can address, through Professor Rae’s research, important questions such as understanding how the brain works and how brain disorders lead to impaired ability."
“I am really excited by this appointment,” said Professor Rae, who recently spent four years at Oxford University, working on magnetic resonance spectroscopy in vivo. “I can see the tremendous possibilities of this field, having made the transition myself from one discipline to another. I started looking at the metabolic biochemistry of the red blood cell and then moved on to study the brain.”
Further cross-faculty Professorships, funded through UNSW’s commercial education arm, NewSouth Global, will be announced over the coming months.
Leading Australian biochemist Caroline (Lindy) Rae, who is internationally recognised for her expertise in magnetic resonance, has been appointed NewSouth Global Professor in Brain Sciences, based at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute. The five-year appointment will be announced at the launch of Brain Sciences UNSW, during Brain Awareness Week.
Brain Sciences UNSW is a new initiative involving researchers from the Faculties of Medicine and Science, the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, the Black Dog Institute and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research (neurobiology program).
“The appointment of Professor Rae is a coup for UNSW,” said UNSW Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mark Wainwright. “One of her demonstrated strengths is innovative interdisciplinary neuroscience research. We are trying to achieve just this sort of broad collaboration with all the cross-faculty Professorships.”
"The $6 million development of the Mayne Clinical Research Imaging Centre at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute provides access to world leading technology for brain imaging studies,” said Professor Peter Schofield from the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute. “Using this research capacity, the partnership with Brain Sciences UNSW provides the platform by which we can address, through Professor Rae’s research, important questions such as understanding how the brain works and how brain disorders lead to impaired ability."
“I am really excited by this appointment,” said Professor Rae, who recently spent four years at Oxford University, working on magnetic resonance spectroscopy in vivo. “I can see the tremendous possibilities of this field, having made the transition myself from one discipline to another. I started looking at the metabolic biochemistry of the red blood cell and then moved on to study the brain.”
Further cross-faculty Professorships, funded through UNSW’s commercial education arm, NewSouth Global, will be announced over the coming months.
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