Biography
Elizabeth graduated with a BSc. honours in Pharmacology from Sunderland University and went to the University of Saskatchewan where she studied Neuropsychopharmacology. Having been awarded a PhD she spent a year in Dunedin, New Zealand working on the rat hypoxic/ischaemic model. In 1996 she moved to Melbourne, joining the Rebecca L. Cooper Research Laboratories at the Mental Health Research Institute, where she started working with human post-mortem tissue. Dr Scarr is currently the Royce Abbey Postdoctoral Fellow, funded by the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund at the Centre for Neuroscience. She continues to work towards understanding the chemical changes associated with psychiatric disorders, in particular schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the Rebecca L. Cooper Research Laboratories.
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
| Research Interest |
Key Words |
Country of Expertise |
| Psychiatric disorders |
Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Neurochemistry, Post-mortem |
Australia |
International Linkages
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other
Awards
Qualifications
| Title |
Institution |
Date Awarded |
Abbreviation |
| Bachelor of Science (Honours) Pharmacology |
University of Sunderland |
27-Jun-1989 |
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| PhD Neuropsychopharmacology |
University of Saskatchewan |
28-Oct-1995 |
|
Memberships
| Membership Type |
Membership Body |
Description |
Start Date |
End Date |
| Member |
Australian Society for Psychiatric Research |
General |
18-Oct-2006 |
|
| Member |
Australian Neuroscience Society |
General |
02-Feb-1997 |
|
| Member |
Society for Neuroscience |
General |
19-May-2003 |
|
| Member |
Australian Society for Medical Research |
General |
01-Jul-2000 |
01-Jul-2007 |
| Member |
Collegium Interationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum |
General |
31-Dec-2004 |
|
Other Awards
| Award Type |
Awarding Body |
Comments |
Date Awarded |
| Other (Award) |
International Congress on Schizophrenia Research |
|
16-Dec-1998 |
| Other (Award) |
Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologium |
|
14-Jul-2000 |
| Other (Award) |
Finkel Foundation |
|
11-Nov-2003 |
Government Research Classifications
Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications
Socio-Economic Objective Classifications
Grants and Contracts
Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.
Grants
| Title |
Role |
Funding Source |
Scheme |
Award Date |
| MUSCARINIC M1 RECEPTOR, COGNITION AND SCHIZOPHREMIA |
Chief Investigator |
NHMRC |
Project Grants |
01/01/2005 |
| Royce Abbey Postdoctoral Fellowship |
Chief Investigator |
AUST ROTARY HEALTH RESEARCH FUND |
Mental Illness Research Royce Abbey Postdoctoral Fellowship |
01/01/2008 |
| Studies on the mechanisms by which muscarinic receptors might cause schizophrenia |
Chief Investigator |
NHMRC |
Project Grants |
01/01/2008 |
| Defining the pathology of a sub-type of schizophrenia |
Chief Investigator |
NHMRC |
Project Grants |
01/01/2009 |
Publications
Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.
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