North Ryde. Launch of Centre of Excellence

The CRC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Disorders (CCD) based at Macquarie University, will be officially launched on February 3, concentrating new world-class research into a range of brain and cognitive disorders.The centre will be multi-institutional, with nodes at Macquarie University, the University of Western Australia and the University of New South Wales. Keynote lectures will be given by world leaders in the field of cognitive science, Dr Douglas Cheyne, senior scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute at the University of Toronto and Professor Georgina Rippon from the School of Life & Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham.