The Centre of Research Excellence in Bipolar Disorder (CORE-BD) has received $2.5 million in government funding over five years through the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) Centres of Research Excellence scheme.
The centre will bring together the best bipolar disorder experts and researchers to enhance early intervention and improve treatments for bipolar disorders. Professor Sue Cotton, director of CORE-BD, said the centre will have far reaching benefits. “CORE-BD will bridge the gap so that BD researchers in Australia are connected to create a ‘whole greater than the sum of its parts’, and the flow-on effects of that could be enormous.
This new multi-disciplinary centre will raise awareness of bipolar in the community and inform clinical practice, with the goal of reducing delays in diagnosis and improving outcomes for people impacted by the disorder.” CORE-BD is based at Monash University and being delivered in partnership with Deakin University, Swinburne University, University of Melbourne, Orygen, The University of Sydney, University of NSW, Newcastle University, and Harvard University.