Research groups

Professor Akkari is a pharmacogeneticist and neuromuscular geneticist with 28 years of research experience in Australia and the US

Winner of the 2023 WA Australian of the Year Award, Professor Samar Aoun is Perron Institute Research Chair in Palliative Care at the University of Western Australia, Head of Palliative...

May Aung-Htut is the Co-Head of the Molecular Therapy Laboratory at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Innovative Therapeutics (CMMIT).

Professor Melinda (Lindy) Fitzgerald holds a joint appointment of Professor of Neurotrauma at the Perron Institute and Curtin University. At Curtin, she is Dean of Research of the Faculty of...

Dr Gaitatzis is a Consultant Neurologist specialised in epilepsy at Perron Institute and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. He qualified in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and completed his specialist training...

Clinical Professor Soumya Ghosh is consultant neurologist at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth Children’s Hospital, and Fiona Stanley Hospital, and Clinical Professor at the Perron Institute.

Associate Professor Stuart Hodgetts holds a joint appointment at Perron Institute and UWA. He has extensive knowledge and expertise in cell and stem cell-based transplantation therapies.

Professor Allan Kermode has worked in the Oxford University Department of Neurology and the Institute of Molecular Medicine Oxford, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London UK,...

Clinical Professor Neville Knuckey is the Head of Stroke Research at the Perron Institute. After completing medicine at UWA, he then trained in Neurosurgery in Western Australia and completed Neurosurgical...

Professor Kõks holds a joint appointment with the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Innovative Therapeutics (CMMIT) and the Perron Institute after joining the Institute from the University of Tartu, Estonia...

Adjunct Professor Bruno Meloni is the Head of Stroke Laboratory Research at the Perron Institute. Before this appointment, Professor Meloni’s research focused on the application of in vitro cultivation and...

Professor Merrilee Needham combines the challenging roles of leader of the Myositis Research group and consultant neurologist at the Perron Institute, Director of Research, South Metropolitan Health Service, and Consultant...

Associate Professor Jennifer (Jenny) Rodger (BSc (Hons), PhD), is the Head of Brain Plasticity Research at the Perron Institute and the MSWA Senior Research Fellow in Brain Plasticity.

Associate Professor Rakesh Veedu has a dual appointment as Head of Precision Nucleic Acid Therapeutics Research within Murdoch’s Centre for Molecular Medicine and Innovative Therapeutics (CMMIT) and Perron Institute.

Professor Steve Wilton is the Director of the Perron Institute, Foundation Chair of Molecular Therapy at Murdoch University and Director of Murdoch University’s Centre for Molecular Medicine and Innovative Therapeutics...

Minghao Zheng is Professor of Orthopaedic Research at UWA and Head of the Bone and Brain Axis Research group at Perron Institute. His team is exploring links between bone fractures...