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Professor
Peter Schofield
Current Appointments
Honorary Appointment
Professor, School of Medicine, UNSW
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Professor Peter Schofield was CEO of NeuRA between 2004 and 2022. He is also a Professor of Medicine at UNSW Sydney with extensive professional experience in the biotechnology industry and in medical research institutes in the US, Germany and Australia. At the Garvan Institute he held multiple NHMRC Research Fellowships and was Director of the Neurobiology Program.
His research interests focus on understanding how signalling occurs in the brain, and on identifying genes that lead to psychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder and on neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimers. He has been the site leader of the Sydney site of the NIH-funded Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) since the studies inception in 2008. He has published over 400 papers and holds several patents.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and has served on many scientific and advocacy bodies, most recently including the NHMRC National Institute of Dementia Research and the Schizophrenia Research Institute. In the 2019 Australia Day Awards he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to medical and scientific research in the field of neuroscience, and to professional institutions.
Publications
2025, 03 Feb
FAMILY-BASED RNA SEQUENCING IN BIPOLAR DISORDER FOR CANDIDATE GENE AND PATHWAY IDENTIFICATION
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.30.25321384
2025 Feb
The moderating effect of recent positive and negative life events on the impact of early life stress on mental wellbeing and distress
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.12.047
2024, 08 Oct
Association of Resilience-Related Life Experiences on Variability on Age of Onset in Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Disease
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000209766
2024, 16 Apr
Heritability of Gene Expression Measured from Peripheral Blood in Older Adults
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.3390/genes15040495
2024, 15 Apr
Midpoint of Sleep is Associated with Sleep Quality in Older Adults with and without Symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/sleepadvances/zpae023
2024 Jan
Heritability of cognitive and emotion processing during functional MRI in a twin sample
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26557
2023 May
Negative association between anterior insula activation and resilience during sustained attention: an fMRI twin study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721005262
2022, 19 Dec
Proteomic Clusters Underlie Heterogeneity in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease Progression
View full other on https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awac484
2022, 05 Dec
An Analysis of PubMed Abstracts From 1946 to 2021 to Identify Organizational Affiliations in Epidemiological Criminology: Descriptive Study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.2196/42891
2022, 21 Oct
Autosomal dominant and sporadic late onset Alzheimer's disease share a common in vivo pathophysiology
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awac181
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