PRION 2016 TOKYO| In Conjunction with:Asian Pacific Prion Symposium 2016

Program

Name
Steven Collins

Affiliation
Position: Senior Principal Research Fellow
Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne.

Education

1982
M.B, B.S.
1991
M.D,
1992
FRACP,

Research & Professional Experience

Professor/Senior Principal Research Fellow (2012- ); Principal Research Fellow/Associate Professor (2002-2011), Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne.

1993-
Director, Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, The University of Melbourne.
NH&MRC Practitioner Fellow, 2006-2010; re-appointed 2011-2015 & 2016-2020.
2014-
Director, NATA accredited National Dementia Diagnostics Laboratory, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne.

Research Interests

  • Prion diseases: epidemiology, biomarkers, pathogenesis, PrPC normal function
  • Alzheimer’s disease: biomarker translation.
  • Protein misfolding neurodegenerative diseases.