Person
Masters, Colin Louis (1947 - )
AO FAA FRCP(Eng) FRCPA
- Born
- 5 February 1947
Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Pathologist and University Administrator
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), University of Western Australia
- 1970
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Western Australia
- 1971
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Perth Hospital
- 1972 - 1974
- Career position - Research Fellow in Pathology, University of Western Australia
- 1975
- Career position - Medical Registrar at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth
- 1976
- Career position - Research Fellow in Pathology, 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), 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, University of Western Australia
- 1986 -
- Career position - Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists, England
- 1989 -
- Career position - Consultant Pathologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
- 1989
- Career position - Consultant to the Chief of the Neuropathology Laboratory at the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria
- 1989
- Award - Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists of Australia
- 1989 - 2006
- Career position - Professor of Pathology, University of Melbourne
- 1999 -
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1999 -
- Career position - Committee member of the Executive of the Melbourne Health Shared Pathology Service
- 1999 - 2005
- Career position - Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and science in neurodegenerative diseases
- 2002 -
- Career position - Chief Scientific Advisor to NeuroScience Australia
- 2002 -
- Career position - Laureate Professor of Dementia Research, University of Melbourne
- 2002
- Award - Florey Medal, Australian Institute of Policy and Science
- 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
- 2017
- Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to medical research through international and national contributions to understanding Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases
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Published resources
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
Resource Sections
- Australian Institute of Policy and Science, 'Florey Medal', Sydney, 2024. https://aips.net.au/florey-award/the-florey-medal/. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 1 October 2024