Sciences Alumni Network: In Conversation with Patron
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
- Location: The Gallery Room, National Wine Centre, Corner of Hackney & Botanic Roads, Adelaide SA 5000
- Cost: $10.00 per person
- More information: Visit Website
- Contact: Carolyn McLean, Alumni Relations Officer (Sciences), The University of Adelaide +61 8 8313 6353
- Email: carolyn.mclean@adelaide.edu.au
2020 was quite the year for everyone and we are glad to be offering a suite of programs in 2021. We are delighted to announce that Professor Mark Hutchinson is the patron for the Sciences Alumni Network.
Come and join us for our first event of 2021: In Conversation with SAN patron, Professor Mark Hutchinson.
Professor Mark Hutchinson
Professor Mark Hutchinson is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP), an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and a Professor within the Adelaide Medical School at the University of Adelaide. Mark is also President-elect to Science and Technology Australia, the peak body in Australia that represents 80,000 scientists.
Professor Hutchinson’s research explores the “other brain” or the other 90% of cells in the brain and spinal cord. These immune-like cells are termed glia. Mark’s research has implicated the brain immune-like cells in the action of drugs of dependence and the negative side effects of pain treatments. He has pioneered research which has led to the discovery of novel drug activity at innate immune receptors. His work has enabled the translation of compounds at the lab bench to clinical agents used at the bedside.
In his role as Director of the CNBP he is responsible for the research program of the ARC Centre of Excellence with $50M of funding headquartered at The University of Adelaide, with nodes at Macquarie University and UNSW, Sydney, the RMIT, Melbourne and Griffith University Qld. The CNBP is partnered with universities and companies in Europe, the US and China, as well as other Australian institutions. Prof Hutchinson’s work with the CNBP is to "Discover new approaches to measure nano-scale dynamic phenomena in living systems” and allow the first minimally invasive realtime visualisations of the “other brain”.