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DR ALEX BOUSSIOUTAS



Contact Details

Organization: Medicine - Royal Melbourne and Western Hospitals
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.medrmhwh.unimelb.edu.au/staff/academic/boussioutas.html
Work: 61383456816
Fax: 61393181157
Level: 01
Building: Western Hospital
Campus: Western Hospital

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Gastrointestinal Cancer Oesophageal cancer, Gastric Cancer, Premalignant screening Australia, China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province), Singapore, Japan and the Koreas

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of Cambridge Exchange, Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1992
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 11-Nov-2004

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) 01-Nov-1999

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) AstraZeneca PTY LTD 10-Oct-2003
Medal Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre 15-Apr-2005

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
Gastric cancer: Early detection of disease, relapse and prediction of extent of diasease Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2004
Molecular markers of the progression of intestinal metaplasia to gastric cancer Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2007
BEST-AUSTRALIA: A PHASE II STUDY OF NON-ENDOSCOPIC SCREENING FOR BARRETT'S OESOPHAGUS IN PRIMARY CARE Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Project Grants (NHMRC) 01/01/2009

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

  • Incorporation of somatic BRAF mutation testing into an algorithm for the investigation of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Familial Cancer
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 301-310
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  • Augmented gp130-mediated cytokine signalling accompanies human gastric cancer progression
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Pathology
    Volume: 213
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 140-151
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Gastric involvement of plasmacytoma associated with t(4:14) and chromosome 13 deletion


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Leukemia and Lymphoma
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 1973-1975
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  • The challenges of gene expression microarrays for the study of human cancer.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cancer Cell
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 333-339
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  • Topological and functional discovery in a gene coexpression meta-network of gastric cancer.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cancer Research
    Volume: 66
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 232-241
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • An Expression-Based Site of Origin Diagnostic Method Designed for Clinical Application to Cancer of Unknown Origin
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cancer Research
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 4031-4040
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  • Hyperactivation of Stat3 in gp130 mutant mice promoes gastric hyperproliferation and desensitizes TGF-B signaling
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Nature Medicine
    Volume: 11
    Page numbers: 845-852
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  • Novel regions of chromosomal amplification at 6p21, 5p13, and 12q14 in gastric cancer identified by array comparative genomic hybridization
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Genes, Chromosomes & Cancer
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 247-259
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Current and potential uses for DNA microarrays in transplantation medicine: lessons from other disciplines
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Tissue Antigens
    Volume: 62
    Page numbers: 93-103
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  • Distinctive patterns of gene expression in premalignant gastric mucosa and gastric cancer
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Cancer Research
    Volume: 63
    Page numbers: 2569-2577
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Towards a molecular approach to gastric cancer management
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Internal Medicine Journal
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 296-303
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