Glenda Halliday
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Glenda Halliday | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Neuroscientist |
| Awards | NSW Scientist of the Year (2022) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of New South Wales |
| Thesis | The organization of the ventromedial mesencephalic tegmentum (1986) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of New South Wales University of Sydney |
Glenda Margaret Halliday is an Australian neuroscientist. As of 2021, she is a professor at the University of Sydney and research fellow in the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). She was named 2022 NSW Scientist of the Year.
Halilday graduated with a BSc from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 1981.[1] She went on to graduate with a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine at the UNSW in 1986, with a thesis titled "The organization of the ventromedial mesencephalic tegmentum".[2] While undertaking her PhD she founded a donor program to enable study of Parkinson's disease in the brain.
Career
Halliday is a research fellow of the NHMRC, first appointed to that role in 1990.[3] Working at UNSW, she was appointed professor of medicine in 2003 and subsequently professor of neuroscience in 2008. As of 2021 she is a professor and NHMRC leadership fellow based at the University of Sydney.[4]
Halliday's research focuses on neurodegeneration, including Parkinson's disease and frontotemporal dementia.[5] Her work has led to improved treatment of Parkinson's sufferers.
