ORYGEN Research Centre

ORYGEN Research Centre was "established as a partnership with the Colonial Foundation, the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health. This partnership means that the Centre is aligned with an academic educational and research institute of international standing, and with a health care network that provides the largest mental health program in Australia. The partnership provides the basis for the enactment of a diverse range of “real world” clinical research activities." [1] The Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre is part of the ORYGEN Youth Health.

Funding

"Community Health is the largest area of funding for Colonial Foundation, and includes the trust’s largest single project, a $13 million five-year grant to establish the ORYGEN Research Centre for research into youth mental health." [2]

"ORYGEN Research Centre is grateful for the support of the following organisations in supporting reserach activities: [3]

• Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation Ltd
• ANZ Charitable Trusts
• AstraZeneca Pty Ltd
• beyondblue
• Colonial Foundation Ltd
• National Illicit Drugs Strategy, Commonwealth Government
• Eli Lilly
• Janssen-Cilag
• Lilly Melbourne Academic Consortium
• Myer Foundation
• National Health & Medical Research Council
• Novartis
• Pfizer
• Telematics Trust
• Theodore & Vada Stanley Foundation
• Victorian Department of Human Services, Mental Health Branch
• Victorian Department of Human Services, Public Health, Drugs Unit

Collaborating organisations

• Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre
• Brain & Mind Research Institute
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Department of Psychiatry UOM
• Department of Psychology UOM
• North Western Mental Health Program
• Oregon Research Institute
• Mental Health Research Institute

Staff

• Professor Patrick McGorry, Executive Director
• Mr. John Moran, Research Program Director
• Ms. Kerryn Pennell, Director, Promotion and Translation
• Research Centre Staff

Contact

Web: http://www.orygen.org.au/contentPage.asp?pageCode=RESEARCHCENTSTRUCT

External links

• Richard Gosden, "Schismatic Mind: Controversies over the cause of the symptoms of schizophrenia", University of Wollongong (Australia), PhD, 2000.
• Richard Gosden, "CHAPTER 10, Early Psychosis: Preventive Medicine, Scientific Assault on Mystical Tendencies, or an Extension of Social Control?", University of Wollongong (Australia), PhD, 2000.
• Colonial Foundation Annual Report for the year 2004-2005