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A/PROF STEVEN JOHN COLLINS



Contact Details

Organization: Pathology
Position: PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW
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Homepage: http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/services/ancjdr/
Work: 8344 1945
Level: 03
Building: Alan Gilbert Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Prion diseases Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery University of Melbourne 04-Dec-1982
Doctor of Medicine University of Melbourne 11-Apr-1992

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Association of Neurologists 06-Jul-1993

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) 17-Aug-1990

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES OF THE AGING BRAIN: DIAGNOSIS & THERAPY BASED ON THE STUDY OF AGGREAGATED PROTEIN DEPOSITIONS Chief Investigator NHMRC Program Grants 01/01/2002
practitioner fellowship Chief Investigator NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship 01/01/2006
Understanding human prion diseases. Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2007
BIOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF PEPTIDES REPRESENTING ENDOGENOUS PROCESSING OF HUMAN PRION PROTEIN Principal Supervisor BETHLEHEM GRIFFITHS RESEARCH FOUNDATION Medical Research Grants 01/01/2007
Early oxidative changes in live cells following infection with the neurodegenerative disease associated prion protein. Principal Supervisor BRAIN FOUNDATION Specific Research Grants 30/09/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • CSF BACE1 activity is increased in CJD and Alzheimer disease versus other dementias.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 67
    Page numbers: 710-712
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  • Correlative studies support lipid peroxidation is linked to PrPres propogation as an early primary pathogenic event in prion disease
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Brain Research Bulletin
    Volume: 68
    Page numbers: 346-354
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  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Australian surveillance update to December 2005
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Communicable Diseases Intelligence
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 144-147
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  • Determinants of diagnostic investigation sensitivities across the clinical spectrum of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Brain
    Volume: 129
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 2278-2287
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  • Human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in eleven countries: diagnostic pattern across time, 1993-2002.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: BMC Public Health
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 278-287
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Australian sporadic CJD analysis supports endogenous determinants of molecular-clinical profiles
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 113-118
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Australian surveillance update to 31 December 2004
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Communicable Diseases Intelligence
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 269-271
    Publisher: Department of Health and Family Services
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  • Detection of prion epitopes on PrPc and PrPsc of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies using specific monoclonal antibodies to PrP
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Immunology and Cell Biology
    Volume: 83
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 632-637
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Ethical considerations in presymptomatic testing for variant CJD
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Medical Ethics
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 625-630
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group(London)
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  • Extended period of asymptomatic prion disease after low dose inoculation: Assessment of detection methods and implcations for infection control
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neurobiology of Disease
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 336-346
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • Genetic prion disease: the EUROCJD experience
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Human Genetics
    Volume: 118
    Page numbers: 166-174
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Mortality from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and related disorders in Europe, Australia and Canada
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 64
    Page numbers: 1586-1591
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Prion protein glycosylation
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Neurochemistry
    Volume: 93
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 793-801
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Communicable Diseases Intelligence
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 356-358
    Publisher: Department of Health and Family Services
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  • Diagnostic screening of mitochondrial DNA mutations in Australian adults 1990-2001
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Internal Medicine Journal
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 10-19
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Increased β-secretase activity in cerebrospinal fluid of Alzheimer's disease subjects
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Annals of Neurology
    Volume: 55
    Page numbers: 898-899
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  • Lyodura use and the risk of iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 180
    Page numbers: 177-181
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Miyoshi myopathy - an unusual cause of calf pain and tightness
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 45-47
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Predictors of survival in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Brain
    Volume: 127
    Page numbers: 2348-2359
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • Transmissible spongiform encephalophaties
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 363
    Page numbers: 51-61
    Publisher: Lancet(London)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Diverse fibrillar peptides directly bind the Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein and amyloid precursor-like protein 2 resulting in cellular accumulation
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 966
    Page numbers: 231-244
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Novel prion protein insert mutation associated with prolonged neurodegenerative illness
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 60
    Page numbers: 1620-1624
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Organ distribution of prion proteins in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Lancet Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 214-222
    Publisher: The Lancet Publishing Group(London)
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  • Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the potential for its accidental transmission following surgery with contaminated instruments: the risk of transmission in Australia
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Folia Neuropathologica
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