
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

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


Congratulations to John O'Sullivan Yen Chin Koay and team on this groundbreaking work published in Circulation Research 👏

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



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 ➡️


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




"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


Some great examples of 175 years of innovation and impact University of Sydney sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n…

"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


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 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


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


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


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,
