Professor Bryce Vissel is Director of the Centre for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine at University of Technology Sydney, which is being established to address a range of disorders of brain and spinal cord through an integrated collaborative multi-disciplinary effort. Professor Vissel as previously head of neurodegeneration research group at Garvan Institute and prior to that a researcher at the world leading Salk institute in the USA for which he received a Fulbright Award.