Rate My Professor Glenda Halliday

Glenda Halliday is Professor of Neuroscience and NHMRC Senior Leadership Fellow at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre in the Sydney Medical School. Holding a PhD in Anatomy, she is a career neuroscientist and research neuropathologist who has been supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council as a Research Fellow since 1993. Her research specializes in the pathology and progression of neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and frontotemporal dementia. She leads a research team of approximately 100 members, providing foundational neuroanatomical and biochemical data that have profoundly impacted understanding of disease mechanisms and progression in the field.

Previously, Halliday served as Professor of Neuroscience at the University of New South Wales and holds an honorary Senior Principal Research Fellow position at Neuroscience Research Australia. She has published extensively, with over 700 peer-reviewed articles and more than 57,000 citations. Key publications include "The progression of pathology in longitudinally followed patients with Parkinson's disease" (2008), "Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies" (2017), "Dementia in long-term Parkinson’s disease patients" (2020), and "Lipid pathway dysfunction is prevalent in patients with Parkinson’s disease" (2022).

Halliday's contributions have earned her the Companion of the Order of Australia (2023), Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2021), Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, NSW Scientist of the Year (2022), and Robert A. Pritzker Prize (2021). She served as President of the Australian Neuroscience Society (2006-2007) and on the NHMRC Academy and ARC College of Experts.