Person
Masters, Colin Louis (1947 - )
FRCP(Eng) FRCPA FAA
- Born
- 5 February 1947
Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Pathologist
Summary
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.
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Chronology
- 1967
- Education - Bachelor of Medical Science (BMedSci) completed at the University of Western Australia
- 1970
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Western Australia
- 1971
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Perth Hospital
- 1972 - 1974
- Career position - Research Fellow in Pathology at the University of Western Australia
- 1975
- Career position - Medical Registrar at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth
- 1976
- Career position - Research Fellow in Pathology at the University of Western Australia
- 1976 - 1977
- Career position - Research Fellow in Neuropathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
- 1977
- Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD) received from the University of Western Australia
- 1977 - 1980
- Career position - Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke at the NIH
- 1980 - 1981
- Career position - Guest Professor and Humboldt Fellow of the University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 1981 - 1988
- Career position - Clinical Assistant (research) in Neuropathology at the Royal Perth Hospital
- 1981 - 1988
- Career position - Principal Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia
- 1986 -
- Career position - Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, England
- 1989 -
- Career position - Consultant Pathologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
- 1989 -
- Career position - Professor of Pathology at the University of Melbourne
- 1989
- Award - Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPA), Australia
- 1989
- Career position - Consultant to the Chief of the Neuropathology Laboratory at the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria
- 1999 -
- Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1999 -
- Career position - Committee member of the Executive of the Melbourne Health Shared Pathology Service
- 1999 -
- Career position - Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne
- 2002 -
- Career position - Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne
- 2002 -
- Career position - Chief Scientific Advisor to NeuroScience Australia
- 2003 -
- Career position - Chair of the Senior Scientists' Council of the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria
- 2004 -
- Career position - Member of the Australian Academy of Brain Sciences
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Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1108510. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/49919529. Details
- 'Masters, Colin L (19470205-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1228439. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 15 June 2022