Professor Leigh Johnston is the Director of the Melbourne Brain Centre Imaging Unit and a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Assistant Dean Research Training in the Melbourne School of Engineering. Prior to her appointment at the University of Melbourne, Leigh was a research fellow at York University in Canada and the Universite catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Leigh’s research interests are focussed on the development of improved imaging techniques for interrogating fundamental questions in neuroscience and include pulse design for high field MRI, statistical analysis methods for functional MRI connectivity mapping, biophysical modelling for diffusion-weighted MRI, and acquisition and analysis techniques for high-field sodium imaging.
Donanemab, developed by Lilly, is the first disease-modifying treatment for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease to be approved for use in Australia. The National Imaging Facility supported its developme
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Dr Sicong Tu is excited about helping motor neurone disease (MND) patients gain a much better idea of their disease progression: “The focus of our network is on bridging the gap between leading Aust
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A new national-scale molecular-imaging network that aims to improve cancer imaging, dementia diagnosis and treatment, and new radiopharmaceuticals was launched Saturday at the annual meeting for Austr
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Professor Michael Hofman appeared on 2GB Radio to talk about a recent major boost for cancer research at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
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Joseph J. Bartlett, Catherine E. Davey, Leigh A. Johnston, Jinming Duan
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