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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

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

2022, 20 Oct

Mental Illness Concordance Between Hospital Clinical Records and Mentions in Domestic Violence Police Narratives: Data Linkage Study

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.2196/39373

2022, 06 Oct

Neuropsychological Correlates of Changes in Driving Behavior Among Clinically Healthy Older Adults

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac101

2022, 19 Mar

Phenotypic and genetic analysis of a wellbeing factor score in the UK Biobank and the impact of childhood maltreatment and psychiatric illness

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-01874-5

2022, 26 Feb

Grey matter covariation and the role of emotion reappraisal in mental wellbeing and resilience after early life stress exposure

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-01849-6

2022 Jan

Emotional face processing correlates with depression/anxiety symptoms but not wellbeing in non-clinical adults: An event-related potential study

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.11.038