Roland Stuart Andrews, C.M.G., D.Sc., Chairman and Managing Director, Gas and Fuel Corporation of Victoria, died suddenly on 14th October, 1961, at the age of 64. He was one of the very few distinguished scientists in Australia who had risen to a position of eminence in industry. His services to the community were over a very broad front, but it is the gas industry, in particular, which will miss him most, since he had been for a long period its acknowledged leader.
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Professor Suzanne Cory AC PresAA FRS President of the Australian Academy of Science
Dr Ehsan Arabzadeh Eccles Institute of Neuroscience John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
Relevant disciplines reflected in this group will be cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, clinical psychology, genetics and neuroscience (developmental, systems and behavioural including e.g., learning, memory, anxiety).
The big issues in the area can be articulated as follows:
In recent years the challenge of neurogenetics has extended to the analysis of important complex human diseases including the common neurodegenerative diseases that have a major impact in our community. In contrast to developmentally based neurological and neuromuscular disorders where advances have been made through pedigree-based analyses and linkage studies, analyses of complex human diseases were, in general, initially targeted to the study of large cohorts of thousands of patients and controls in association based studies.
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