📸 L–R: Professor David Komander, Dr Nicholas Kirk, Dr Sylvie Callegari and Dr Alisa Glukhova. 

Researchers from WEHI’s Parkinson Disease Research Centre have won the 2025 UNSW Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. The team has been honoured for their research unravelling how PINK1, a key protein linked to early-onset Parkinson’s disease, works.

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🏆 PINK1 Parkinson's Disease Research Team @wehi-research.bsky.social‬ is awarded the @unsw.edu.au Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. #EurekaPrizes

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Thanks for the kind words Eric!

Scientists solve decades-long Parkinson’s mystery WEHI researchers have made a huge leap forward in the fight against Parkinson’s disease, solving a decades-long mystery that paves the way for development of new drugs to treat the condition.

World-first: researchers have discovered what protein #PINK1 looks like in humans and how it is activated, solving a decades-long mystery in the fight against #Parkinsonsdisease. The team hope to use the knowledge to find a drug to stop #Parkinsons.

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