Understanding health trajectories, from genome to biome
The many interlinked facets of human health, from understanding the genome and its variable expression, to disease surveillance, health data linkage, mental health and navigating life's milestones, intersect at the Health Futures Institute.
The Health Futures Institute breaks down traditional silos to deliver
revolutionary research that will transform how long and how well people
live, not just in Australia, but around the world.
Being located next to one of the most technologically advanced private and publicly-funded hospital precincts in the southern hemisphere, provides a unique research space to deliver this.
The respective Centres’ strengths in rare and infectious diseases and disease surveillance, drug hypersensitivity, precision medicine, health data linkage, Aboriginal mental health and childhood development and exercise sciences allow us to impact lives throughout Western Australia, Australia and the world.
These activities connect teaching, research and patient care, and generates opportunities for commercialisation and innovation for the benefit of all.
Excellence in research
Our team draws on decades of academic and industry experience to deliver focused, translational research that addresses some of our most pressing health-related challenges.
Centre for Computational and Systems Medicine and ARC Laureate Fellow
A distinguished computational biologist and Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher, Professor Holmes has been appointed an ARC Laureate Fellowship.
She will be progressing research on nutrition, maternal and infant health, liver and gastrointestinal disease and metabolic diseases such as diabetes, and dementia.
She is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, and was Head of the Division of Computational and Systems Medicine at Imperial College London.
Professor Anthony Akkari the Director of the Personalised Medicine Centre. He is a pharmacogeneticist and neuromuscular geneticist with 28 years research experience in Australia and the US. He leads his dually based research group at CMMIT and the Perron Institute in developing new strategic approaches to identifying genetic mechanisms and mutations in neurological diseases, with the aim of developing new and personalised treatments for motor neurone disease.
Executive Director, Health Futures Institute and Director, Centre for Healthy Ageing
Dr Sohrabi has spent the last 15 years of his career investigating healthy ageing. As a psychologist and a clinical neuroscientist, he has extensive expertise in coordinating large multi-disciplinary teams and leading roles in national and international studies.
Dr Sohrabi’s current research is focused on preclinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and preventive interventions to promote healthy ageing in older adults.
Professor Steve Wilton is a world-renowned researcher who together with Professor Sue Fletcher has made global breakthroughs in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
Professor Wilton’s research focuses on an increasing array of diseases, including spinal muscular atrophy, Pompe’s disease, motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis. Over 50 different diseases are currently being studied. Steve Wilton is Director of both the Perron Institute – Western Australia’s oldest medical research institute – and the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Innovative Therapeutics.
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