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The Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney is a multidisciplinary research centre improving global health through unexpected collaborations
Sydney, Australia
Joined January 2020
Luke Carman joins the Charles Perkins Centre as the 2025 Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellow 🙌 Award-winning author and essayist Luke Carman has been announced as the 2025 Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellow at the @Sydney_Uni Charles Perkins Centre. Carman, a Western
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"Stories Matter: A Writing and Literature Strategy for NSW", launched at @statelibrarynsw today by The Hon @JohnGrahamALP . Our very first Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre, #CharlotteWood delivered an inspired and inspiring speech about the power of
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Fat: Friend of foe? Professor Sir @StephenORahilly presents The Nicholas Catchlove Lecture 2025 Professor O'Rahilly, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry at @Cambridge_Uni is a world-leading researcher into the molecular pathogenesis of obesity, insulin resistance and their
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Food makes us who we are. The ways we eat together change lives and communities. Join us at #ParramattaLanes as great minds from @Sydney_Uni serve up inspired visions for changing the way we eat, produce and understand why food is so important. Register: https://t.co/etCFZ1f90J
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It’s always great to see that two leading highlighted papers in Lancet Digital Health this morning are from our own @CPC_usyd and @TheMatilda_USyd
https://t.co/GWxFitptcA
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Congratulations to @DrMelodyDing and team 👏 ➡️
sydney.edu.au
A major new study led by the University of Sydney suggests that walking 7000 steps a day offers similar health benefits across several outcomes as walking 10,000. Read more
How many steps do we really need a day for good health? Excited to share our new research in @TheLancetPH
https://t.co/amcusTAMIH * Even small increases for those inactive could be helpful * 7000 is a realistic target backed by science Keep stepping 🚶♂️🚶🧑🦯🏃♀️
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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
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🆕 Charles Perkins Centre Metabolic Initiative Collaboration Grants 2025 The Charles Perkins Centre's new Metabolic Initiative 🔗 https://t.co/XrONR7H2Wq identifies and fosters metabolic health research collaborations across the University landscape to build capacity and produce
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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
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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. https://t.co/R1sFiwsfFT
#ProteinDesign #AI #SyntheticBiology 1/6.
nature.com
Nature Communications - Directed evolution is a process of mutation and artificial selection to breed biomolecules with new or improved activity. Here the authors develop a directed evolution...
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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
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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 - @ArtSS_Sydney - in 1966. An Arrernte and Kalkadoon man, he was an activist, writer,
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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 @baur_louise (@cpcf_usyd, @syd_health @Sydney_Uni) and @ProfCCollins (@Uni_Newcastle) discuss the need to rethink
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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 @LuigiFontanaMD look at the program's impact and our partnership with
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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
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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
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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
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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 @CambridgeUP, edited by Professor Anne Kveim Lie @ahlie at
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