Charles Perkins Centre
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The Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney is a multidisciplinary research centre improving global health through unexpected collaborations
Congratulations to @DrMelodyDing and team 👏 ➡️ sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n…
How many steps do we really need a day for good health? Excited to share our new research in @TheLancetPH thelancet.com/journals/lanpu… * Even small increases for those inactive could be helpful * 7000 is a realistic target backed by science Keep stepping 🚶♂️🚶🧑🦯🏃♀️
Some great examples of 175 years of innovation and impact @Sydney_Uni sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n…
Announcing the awardees of the inaugural Charles Perkins Centre Professional Staff Prize 2024 🏆 The Charles Perkins Centre Professional Staff Prize recognises and celebrates the outstanding contributions of our professional staff members across our strategic research program…
🆕 Charles Perkins Centre Metabolic Initiative Collaboration Grants 2025 The Charles Perkins Centre's new Metabolic Initiative 🔗 bit.ly/4lGla3k identifies and fosters metabolic health research collaborations across the University landscape to build capacity and produce…
Announcing the Charles Perkins Centre EMCR Seed and Travel Funding Grants 2025 recipients. The Charles Perkins Centre has fostered a strong community amongst its researchers of the future since our inception in 2012. Our vibrant, active and stellar CPC EMCR Committee @CPC_EMCR…
New paper from our lab @amitsake @CPC_usyd @Sydney_Science , we built a directed evolution system (PROTEUS) that works like biological AI. You can use it to make RNA or proteins with new or enhanced functions. doi.org/10.1038/s41467… #ProteinDesign #AI #SyntheticBiology 1/6.
Congratulations to the three recipients of the Charles Perkins Centre Catchlove Sylvan Mid-Career Researcher Fellowships 2025: Dr Alexis Diaz-Vegas @adiazvegas, Associate Professor Melkam Kebede @MelkamKebede, Associate Professor James Wilmott. The new Fellowship is generously…
Celebrating Dr Charles Perkins AO, born on this day 16/06/36 in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Dr Perkins was one of the first Australian Aboriginal university graduates earning a Bachelor of Arts - @ArtSS_Sydney - in 1966. An Arrernte and Kalkadoon man, he was an activist, writer,…
Is it time to change the definition of obesity? Professor Louise Baur in conversation with Professor Clare Collins for the Nutrition Science Bites podcast. Professor @baur_louise (@cpcf_usyd, @syd_health @Sydney_Uni) and @ProfCCollins (@Uni_Newcastle) discuss the need to rethink…
Chef-in-Residence: Food and exercise as preventative medicine As the groundbreaking CPC RPA Health for Life Program's inaugural Chef-in-Residence wraps-up, Chef Marzio Lanzini and Program Director Professor @LuigiFontanaMD look at the program's impact and our partnership with…
Why you should be eating like an animal: The Solutionists, with @mscott Professors Stephen J Simpson and David Raubenheimer @eatlikeanimals examine your biology and how your naturally-evolved appetite has been hacked by highly industrialised food environments. Two of…
"Synthetic skin tech transforms wound repair" How Professor Tony Weiss and his company Elastagen emerged from a fledgling field to a US$260 million success story with new skin treatments and regenerative medicines. After his start-up company Elastagen was sold to a US…
Why is the most connected generation the loneliest? Professor Melody Ding @DrMelodyDing in conversation with Professor Mark Scott @mscott on "The Solutionists, with Mark Scott" #podcast exploring the modern - and growing - public health scourge of #loneliness. Loneliness is…
"Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine": In a world of growing health inequity and ecological injustice, how do we revitalise medicine and public health to tackle new problems? Published by @CambridgeUP, edited by Professor Anne Kveim Lie @ahlie at…
"As many as half of people with anorexia also have autism. I was unseen, even to myself." Dr Fiona Wright – our current Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellow @CPC_usyd – had been in the medical system for around 17 years, being treated for anorexia, before a diagnosis of autism…
Are you our next Writer-in-Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre? You have two weeks to get your EOI in! Explore the power of creativity with the Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellowship open to Australian creative writers to begin a project exploring issues around health…
Join the next Sydney Ideas convo, 'Critical minerals: The global race for resources'. Our expert panel helps break down all you need to know about critical minerals, including the geopolitical issues, and the environmental & community impacts. Register: ow.ly/tOov50VIwwI
Recruitment– We are currently recruiting for three research fellows to work in the Data Science Hub, a collaborative platform funded by the @Sydney_Uni @CPC_usyd (Jennie Mackenzie Research Fund), @syd_health + @Sydney_Science The three roles Research Leader – Biomedical Data…
