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Masters, Colin Louis (1947 - )

FRCP (Eng), FRCPA, FAA
 
Pathologist
Born: 5 February 1947  Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Colin Louis Masters is Laureate Professor, and Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He also concurrently holds several consulting and editorial board positions. Masters has researched neurodegenerative diseases including Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD) and Alzheimer’s disease for over 30 years. He exposed the molecular, genetic and biochemical pathways underlying Alzheimer’s disease, which have been important in developing new treatment regimes for Alzheimer’s disease. Masters also defined the world-wide epidemiology of CJD and the nature of its spongiform changes. Colin Maters has been awarded numerous prizes and honors, given many invited seminars and lectures and has (co-) authored well in excess of 400 publications.
Career Highlights

Chronology
1967Bachelor of Medical Science (BMedSci) completed at the Unviersity of Western Australia
1970Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the Unviersity of Western Australia
1971Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Perth Hospital
1972 - 1974Research Fellow in Pathology at the University of Western Australia
1975Medical Registrar at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth
1976Research Fellow in Pathology at the University of Western Australia
1976 - 1977Research Fellow in Neuropathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
1977Doctor of Medicine (MD) received from the Unviersity of Western Australia
1977 - 1980Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke at the NIH
1980 - 1981Guest Professor and Humboldt Fellow of the University of Heidelberg, Germany
1981 - 1988Clinical Assistant (research) in Neuropathology at the Royal Perth Hospital
1981 - 1988Principal Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia
1986 - Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, England
1989 - Consultant Pathologist at the The Royal Melbourne Hospital
1989 - Professor of Pathology at the University of Melbourne
1989Fellow of the The Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPA), Australia
1989Consultant to the Chief of the Neuropathology Laboratory at the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria
1999 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1999 - Committee member of the Executive of the Melbourne Health Shared Pathology Service
1999 - Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne
2002 - Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne
2002 - Chief Scientific Advisor to NeuroScience Australia
2003 - Chair of the Senior Scientists' Council of the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria
2004 - Member of the Australian Academy of Brain Sciences

 
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Created: 25 May 2001
Modified: 15 June 2005
Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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