Prof Glenda Halliday is an Australian career neuroscientist and research neuropathologist specializing in neurodegeneration who has been a Research Fellow in the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)and Australian Research Council (ARC) systems since 1988.  She was Professor of Medicine (2003) then of Neuroscience (2008), then NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow (2010) at the University of New South Wales, and is now an NHMRC Leadership Fellow located at the University of Sydney.  She has successfully worked with many Australian and international researchers on important scientific questions on Parkinson’s disease, alcohol toxicity, dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal dementias and motor neurodegenerative diseases.  In 2023, she was awarded the NSW Premier’s Prize for Science.