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DR ERIK WALTER THOMPSON



Contact Details

Organization: Surgery - St Vincent's Hospital
Position: PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW
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Work: +61-3-9288-2569
Fax: +61-3-9288-2605
Room: 10
Level: 02
Building: Clinical Sciences Block
Campus: St Vincents Hospital

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Griffith University 31-Dec-1977
Doctor of Philosophy Griffith University 31-Dec-1986
Bachelor of Science, Honours Griffith University 31-Dec-1978

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member National Breast Cancer Foundation 01-Jan-2007
Member AACR 01-Jan-2008
Member Metastasis Research Society 01-Jan-2007
Member Discovery Science and Biotechnology 01-Jan-2005 31-Dec-2006
Member Discovery Science and Biotechnology 01-Jan-2004 31-Dec-2005
Member EMT 01-Jan-2004 31-Dec-2005
Member NHMRC 01-Jan-2006
Member NHMRC 01-Jan-2005
Member State Cancer Councils 01-Jan-2002
Member European Commission EEC 01-Jan-2007

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Scholarship Griffith University Postgraduate Eductation Scholarship 01-Jan-1978
Scholarship Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme 01-Jan-1974
Scholarship Secondary Scholarship 01-Jan-1971

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
EPITHELIO-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION IN HUMAN BREAST CANCER Chief Investigator US DEPT OF DEFENSE US Dept of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Idea Award (UNITED STATES DEPT OF DEFENSE) 19/05/2003
Molecular markers for epithelio-mesenchymal transition in human breast cancer Chief Investigator US DEPT OF DEFENSE US Dept of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Idea Award (UNITED STATES DEPT OF DEFENSE) 19/05/2003
Regulation of Anoikis in Human Breast Cancer Cells by Intergrin-linked kinase Principal Supervisor US DEPT OF DEFENSE US Department of Defense Postdoctoral Fellowship (UNITED STATES DEPT OF DEFENSE) 01/09/2003
In vivo tissue engineering of adipose tissue for reconstructive surgery Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2004
Investigation into the mechanisms of osteosclerotic metastatis Chief Investigator NHMRC Dora Lush Biomedical Postgraduate Scholarship 01/01/2004
CHARACTERIZATION AND OPTIMISATION OF MYOMATRIX: A NOVEL EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX HYDROGEL FROM MUSCLE Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
EPITHELIO-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION IN HUMAN BREAST CANCER Principal Supervisor UNITED STATES DEPT OF DEFENSE US Dept of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Idea Award 04/02/2005
Dental Pulp Tissue Engineering Chief Investigator AUST DENTAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION Research Grant 01/01/2006
DENTAL PULP TISSUE ENGINEERING IN A PIG MODEL Chief Investigator AUST DENTAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION Research Grant 23/11/2007
EPITHELIAL - MESENCHYMAL INTERCONVERSIONS IN THE BREAST CANCER METASTATIC CASCADE Chief Investigator CANCER COUNCIL VICTORIA Grant in Aid 27/11/2007
A NEW MODEL FOR 3D MIGRATION INVOLVING CLAW STRUCTURES AND METALLOPROTEINASES Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2008
Tissue distraction: A novel approach to enhance tissue growth for soft tissue engineering purposes Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
COLLABORATION AGREEMENT FOR ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS GRANT WITH ST VINCENT'S HOSPITAL Chief Investigator ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC

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

  • Aberrant fibroblast growth factor receptor signaling in bladder and other cancers
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Differentiation
    Volume: 75
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 831-842
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  • Epithelial-mesenchymal interconversions in normal ovarian surface epithelium and ovarian carcinomas: An exception to the norm
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Cellular Physiology
    Volume: 213
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 581-588
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  • Host Rather than Graft Origin of Matrigel-Induced Adipose Tissue in the Murine Tissue-Engineering Chamber
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Tissue Engineering
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 1-10
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  • Induction of epithelial to mesenchymal transition in PMC42-LA human breast carcinoma cells by carcinoma-associated fibroblast secreted factors
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Breast Cancer Research
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-15
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  • Mesenchymal to Epithelial Transition in Development and Disease
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Cells Tissues Organs
    Volume: 185
    Page numbers: 7-19
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  • Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 and Nitric Oxide Promote Adipogenesis in a Model That Mimics Obesity
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Obesity
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2951-7
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  • Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) an early-screening biomarker for ovarian cancer: NGAL is associated with epidermal growth factor-induced epithelio-mesenchymal transition
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Cancer
    Volume: 120
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 2426-34
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  • Spontaneous large Volume Adipose Tissue Generation from a Vascularized Pedicled Fat Flap Inside a Chamber Space
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Tissue Engineering
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 673-681
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  • Substrate choice of membrane-type 1 matrix metalloproteinase is dictated by tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 levels
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Cancer Science
    Volume: 98
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 563-568
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  • The arteriovenous loop in a protected space generates a permanent, highly vascular, tissue-engineered construct
    Year: 2007
    Journal: FASEB Journal
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 511-22
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  • The type I Collagen induction of MT1-MMP-mediated MMP-2 activation is repressed by αVβ3 integrin in human breast cancer cells
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Matrix Biology
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 291-305
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  • Vimentin and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Human Breast Cancer - Observations in vitro and in vivo
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Cells Tissues Organs
    Volume: 185
    Page numbers: 191-203
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Contact with Existing Adipose Tissue Is Inductive for Adipogenesis in Matrigel


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Tissue Engineering
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 2041-2047
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  • Molecular aspects of tissue engineering in the dental field


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Periodontology 2000
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 88-108
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  • A Collagen Prolyl 4-hydroxylase Inhibitor Reduces Adhesions after Tendon Injury
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
    Volume: 451
    Page numbers: 251-256
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  • Adipose tissue engineering based on the controlled release of fibroblast growth factor-2 in a collagen matrix
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Tissue Engineering
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 3035-3043
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  • Adipose tissue induction in vivo
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
    Volume: 585
    Page numbers: 403-12
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  • An arteriovenous loop in a protected space generates a permanent, highly vascular, tissue-engineered construct
    Year: 2006
    Journal: FASEB Journal
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 512-522
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  • In vitro and in vivo MMP gene expression localisation by In Situ-RT-PCR in cell culture and paraffin embedded human breast cancer cell line xenografts
    Year: 2006
    Journal: BMC Cancer
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 18
    Page numbers: 1471-2407
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  • Mesenchymal-to-Epithelial Transition Facilitates Bladder Cancer Metastasis: Role of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor-2
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cancer Research
    Volume: 66
    Issue: 23
    Page numbers: 11271-11278
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  • PPARy-independent induction of growth arrest and apoptosis in prostate and bladder carcinoma
    Year: 2006
    Journal: BMC Cancer
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 53
    Page numbers: 1471-2407
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  • ST7-mediated suppression of tumorigenicity of prostate cancer cells is characterized by remodeling of the extracellular matrix
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Oncogene
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 3924-3933
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  • The epithelial-mesenchymal transition: new insights in signaling, development, and disease
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Cell Biology
    Volume: 172
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 973-981
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  • The influence of architecture on degradation and tissue ingrowth into three-dimensional poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) scaffolds in vitro and in vivo
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Biomaterials
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 2854-2864
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