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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

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The heart IS a ketogenic organ! Specifically, HMGCS2 is critical for normal lipid metabolism and mitochondrial function, and its dysregulation contributes to HFpEF. Very proud of my team! ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116… Charles Perkins Centre Sydney Health University of Sydney

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A new study by a team of University of Sydney and @unsw researchers determined that the burden of #diabetes in Australia could be underestimated by as much as 35 percent. “This study highlights a major gap in how we currently monitor diabetes in Australia. If we are missing up to one in

A new study by a team of <a href="/Sydney_Uni/">University of Sydney</a> and @unsw researchers determined that the burden of #diabetes in Australia could be underestimated by as much as 35 percent.

“This study highlights a major gap in how we currently monitor diabetes in Australia. If we are missing up to one in
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Congratulations to Dr Natalie Matosin, Sydney Horizon Fellow, recipient of the Biological Psychiatry Australia (BPA) Biological Psychiatry Australia Aubrey Lewis Award 2025 The Award recognises outstanding achievement by an individual researcher within the first ten years of post-doctoral work

Congratulations to Dr <a href="/natalie_matosin/">Natalie Matosin</a>, Sydney Horizon Fellow, recipient of the Biological Psychiatry Australia (BPA) <a href="/biolpsychaust/">Biological Psychiatry Australia</a> Aubrey Lewis Award 2025

The Award recognises outstanding achievement by an individual researcher within the first ten years of post-doctoral work
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To have a real impact on obesity, we need to work together to address its many root causes throughout society. 📢 ⚕️ Biology 🍎 Food 👪 Genetic risk 👨‍⚕️ Healthcare access 🎉 Life events 📺 Marketing 🤕 Mental health 💤 Sleep ❗ Stigma ➡️ Find out more: worldobesity.org/what-we-do/our…

To have a real impact on obesity, we need to work together to address its many root causes throughout society. 📢

⚕️ Biology
🍎 Food
👪 Genetic risk
👨‍⚕️ Healthcare access
🎉 Life events
📺 Marketing
🤕 Mental health
💤 Sleep
❗ Stigma

➡️ Find out more: worldobesity.org/what-we-do/our…
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Meat or veg? Plant-based protein is linked to a longer life, research shows A new global study by a team of Charles Perkins Centre researchers published in Nature Communications suggests that: ➡️ populations world-wide are consuming more animal-based protein than previous generations ➡️

Meat or veg? Plant-based protein is linked to a longer life, research shows
A new global study by a team of Charles Perkins Centre researchers published in <a href="/NatureComms/">Nature Communications</a> suggests that:
➡️ populations world-wide are consuming more animal-based protein than previous generations
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Recruitment– We are currently recruiting for three research fellows to work in the Data Science Hub, a collaborative platform funded by the University of Sydney Charles Perkins Centre (Jennie Mackenzie Research Fund), Sydney Health + Sydney Science The three roles Research Leader – Biomedical Data

Recruitment– We are currently recruiting for three research fellows to work in the Data Science Hub, a collaborative platform funded by the <a href="/Sydney_Uni/">University of Sydney</a> <a href="/CPC_usyd/">Charles Perkins Centre</a> (Jennie Mackenzie Research Fund),
<a href="/syd_health/">Sydney Health</a> + <a href="/Sydney_Science/">Sydney Science</a>

The three roles Research Leader – Biomedical Data
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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

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 &amp; community impacts.

Register: ow.ly/tOov50VIwwI
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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

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
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"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 Charles Perkins Centre – had been in the medical system for around 17 years, being treated for anorexia, before a diagnosis of autism

"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 <a href="/CPC_usyd/">Charles Perkins Centre</a> – had been in the medical system for around 17 years, being treated for anorexia, before a diagnosis of autism
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"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 Cambridge University Press, edited by Professor Anne Kveim Lie Anne Kveim Lie at

"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 <a href="/CambridgeUP/">Cambridge University Press</a>, edited by Professor Anne Kveim Lie <a href="/ahlie/">Anne Kveim Lie</a> at
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Why is the most connected generation the loneliest? Professor Melody Ding Melody Ding in conversation with Professor Mark Scott Mark Scott on "The Solutionists, with Mark Scott" #podcast exploring the modern - and growing - public health scourge of #loneliness. Loneliness is

Why is the most connected generation the loneliest? Professor Melody Ding <a href="/DrMelodyDing/">Melody Ding</a> in conversation with Professor Mark Scott <a href="/mscott/">Mark Scott</a> on "The Solutionists, with Mark Scott" #podcast  exploring the modern - and growing - public health scourge of #loneliness.

Loneliness is
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"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

"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
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Why you should be eating like an animal: The Solutionists, with Mark Scott Professors Stephen J Simpson and David Raubenheimer Prof David Raubenheimer & Prof Stephen Simpson examine your biology and how your naturally-evolved appetite has been hacked by highly industrialised food environments. Two of

Why you should be eating like an animal: The Solutionists, with <a href="/mscott/">Mark Scott</a>   

Professors Stephen J Simpson and David Raubenheimer <a href="/eatlikeanimals/">Prof David Raubenheimer & Prof Stephen Simpson</a> examine your biology and how your naturally-evolved appetite has been hacked by highly industrialised food environments. Two of
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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 Luigi Fontana, MD, PhD, FRACP look at the program's impact and our partnership with

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 <a href="/LuigiFontanaMD/">Luigi Fontana, MD, PhD, FRACP</a> look at the program's impact and our partnership with
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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 Louise Baur (@cpcf_usyd, Sydney Health University of Sydney) and Laureate Prof Clare Collins AO (University of Newcastle) discuss the need to rethink

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 <a href="/baur_louise/">Louise Baur</a> (@cpcf_usyd, <a href="/syd_health/">Sydney Health</a> <a href="/Sydney_Uni/">University of Sydney</a>) and <a href="/ProfCCollins/">Laureate Prof Clare Collins AO</a> (<a href="/Uni_Newcastle/">University of Newcastle</a>) discuss the need to rethink
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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 - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - in 1966. An Arrernte and Kalkadoon man, he was an activist, writer,

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 - <a href="/ArtSS_Sydney/">Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences</a>  - in 1966.

An Arrernte and Kalkadoon man, he was an activist, writer,