Professor Grant Dewson is the Head of WEHI’s Parkinson’s Disease Research Centre that brings together research labs with Movement Disorders clinicians and a passionate Parkinson’s advocacy team. The goal of the Centre is to undertake multi-disciplinary research to understand the underlying causes of Parkinson’s to enable a precision medicine approach to develop targeted disease modifying therapies. Grant is a cell biologist with a research focus on cell death mechanisms, mitochondrial function and ubiquitin signalling in disease. His lab’s research aims to understand the coordinated control of these fundamental processes and to exploit this knowledge to develop new drugs that can improve cell survival. His teams Parkinson’s research has been supported through funding from NHMRC, Parkinson’s Foundation, and MJFF.