The Kolling\u2019s Director of Research Professor Carolyn Sue has been awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in this year\u2019s Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours for her significant service to medicine, particularly mitochondrial disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carolyn is a highly accomplished neurologist and is internationally regarded for her work in both Parkinson\u2019s and mitochondrial disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently appointed to the Director of Research position, Carolyn has been at the Kolling Institute since 2002. She is the Director of Neurogenetics at Royal North Shore Hospital and Director of the National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her expertise is internationally regarded and she was recently invited to provide expert advice at the Federal Parliament\u2019s Inquiry into Mitochondrial Donation, a new reproductive option to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial DNA disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a real privilege to work alongside such a wonderful group of colleagues who are all trying to improve the lives of patients,\u201d Carolyn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very gratifying to have a job you love, that solves problems and gives you a real sense of purpose, and I\u2019m very honoured to have received this special recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1488,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"research-group-tax":[],"primary-research-area":[],"class_list":["post-1473","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumb_Blog_Carolyn-Sue2_w550_h380_fcrop.webp",550,380,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumb_Blog_Carolyn-Sue2_w550_h380_fcrop-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumb_Blog_Carolyn-Sue2_w550_h380_fcrop-300x207.webp",300,207,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumb_Blog_Carolyn-Sue2_w550_h380_fcrop.webp",550,380,false],"large":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumb_Blog_Carolyn-Sue2_w550_h380_fcrop.webp",550,380,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumb_Blog_Carolyn-Sue2_w550_h380_fcrop.webp",550,380,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumb_Blog_Carolyn-Sue2_w550_h380_fcrop.webp",550,380,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"ict-wordpress-support@sydney.edu.au","author_link":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/author\/ict-wordpress-supportsydney-edu-au\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Kolling\u2019s Director of Research Professor Carolyn Sue has been awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in this year\u2019s Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours for her significant service to medicine, particularly mitochondrial disease. Carolyn is a highly accomplished neurologist and is internationally regarded for her work in both Parkinson\u2019s and mitochondrial disease. Recently appointed…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"research-group-tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-group-tax?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"primary-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary-research-area?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}