Biography
Associate Professor Brian Dean was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Melbourne in 1992. In 2006, Dean was appointed as a NH&MRC Senior Research Fellowship (level B) and is currently Head of the Rebecca L. Cooper Research Laboratories at the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria. Dean holds honorary appointments of Principal Research Fellow in the Departments of Pathology and Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at Monash University. Dean’s research mission is to understand the neurobiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Dean has been an author on 130 peer reviewed journal articles, 10 book chapters and 190 conference abstracts. Dean research has been cited on close to 1500 occasions and he has authorships on 5 papers that been cited on 50 or more occasion and 15 papers cited on 25 or more occasions. Dean regularly publishes in Journals with an impact factor of greater than 6.0 that include journals ranked in the top 4 of the 94 Psychiatric Journals currently published. Dean’s involvement with the broader Australian and international research community includes his role as the Victorian Coordinator of the National Brain Bank Repository and his membership on the Committee of the Australian Society of Psychiatric Research with special responsibility for biological psychiatry. Dean is also a Councilor of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologium and is a member of the Finance and Australasian Organising Committee of that organisation. Dean collaborates with other academics in Victoria, other Australian States and has extensive collaborations with both academic and commercial partners in the USA, UK, Germany, Japan and New Zealand. Dean is listed as an Inventor on four Patents, two lodged in Australia and two in the USA. Dean’s contribution to the biological sciences has been recognised by his election as a Fellow of the Institute of Biology, the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologium and the International Society of Affective Disorders and as a Member of the Fukishima Academy of Science. Dean was presented with the Lily Oration Award by the Australian Society of Psychiatric Research in 2006, which recognises a member of the Society who is prominent or rising to prominence in the Australian and New Zealand psychiatric research community. Dean was a member of a NHMRC Grant Review Panel in 2006.
Dean has assisted with the organisation of various scientific meetings, the most significant of which was as a member of the International Scientific Organising Committee for the 2004 CINP meeting in Paris. Dean has also been a member of the Organising Committees for the CINP Regional Scientific Meeting (Brisbane) 2005 and the Discovery Science and Biotechnology Meetings (Melbourne) 2005 and 2006. In 1999 Dean was the first non-Japanese scientist to present a Plenary Lecture to the Japanese Brain Research Meeting and has been an invited speaker at 58 local and international scientific meetings and has made over 50 Free Communications.
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other
Awards
Qualifications
| Title |
Institution |
Date Awarded |
Abbreviation |
| Master of Science |
University of Melbourne |
05-Mar-1986 |
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| Doctor of Philosophy |
University of Melbourne |
24-Oct-1992 |
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Memberships
| Membership Type |
Membership Body |
Description |
Start Date |
End Date |
| Unspecified |
Australian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists & Toxicologists |
Member |
23-Aug-2006 |
|
| Unspecified |
Australian Neuroscience Society |
Member |
23-Aug-2006 |
|
| Unspecified |
Society for Neuroscience |
Foreign Member |
23-Aug-2006 |
|
| Member |
American Chemical Society |
Member |
23-Aug-2006 |
|
Fellowships
| Fellowship |
Date Awarded |
| Fellow of the Institute of Biology (FIBIOL) |
25-Mar-1998 |
Other Awards
| Award Type |
Awarding Body |
Comments |
Date Awarded |
| Prize |
Australian Society of Psychiatric Research Lilly Oration |
|
14-Dec-2006 |
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 |
| MUSCARINIC M1 RECEPTOR, COGNITION AND SCHIZOPHREMIA |
Chief Investigator |
NHMRC |
Project Grants |
01/01/2005 |
| Research Fellowship |
Chief Investigator |
NHMRC |
Research Fellowship |
01/01/2006 |
| Studies on the mechanisms by which muscarinic receptors might cause schizophrenia |
Chief Investigator |
NHMRC |
Project Grants |
01/01/2008 |
| Muscarinic Receptors in Mood Disorders |
Chief Investigator |
NHMRC |
Project Grants |
01/01/2010 |
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.
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