Dr Mark Hackett.

Super proud of CHIRI researcher Dr Mark Hackett, from Curtin’s School of Molecular and Life Sciences, who was recently awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship of $739,302 to progress his research into brain function with ageing.

During the course of his 4-year fellowship, Mark’s focus will be on delivering new tools to visualise how changes to blood vessels during ageing affect the amount and distribution of metal ions in brain cells.

It is no surprise for us to see Mark’s name on the list of fellowship recipients with this honour reserved for Australia’s brightest and best researchers. The aim of the fellowships is to support research in areas of critical national importance by giving outstanding mid-career researchers incentives to conduct their research in Australia.

You can read more about Mark’s latest achievement here: https://buff.ly/33W6Bkh.

In late 2018, Mark was awarded the Royal Australian Chemical Institute Analytical and Environmental Chemistry Division Paul Haddad Medal in recognition of his research and contribution to analytical and environmental chemistry, both nationally and internationally, in particular his development of new imaging techniques for neuroscientists. Earlier that year he received the Dementia Australia Research Foundation’s $50,000 Mamutil Project Grant for his research aimed at identifying new therapeutic strategies to minimise of delay dementia onset in the elderly.

Well done Mark!