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St Vincent's Clinical School (Neurology)
Professor Bruce Brew
| Position: | Head of Neurology and Neurosciences |
| Organisation: | St Vincent's Hospital |
| Email: | b.brew@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Conjoint Professor - St Vincent's Clinical School and National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Kynurenine pathways and relevance to pathogenesis of inflammatory neurological diseases, Effects of HIV on brain, Use of adult stem cells as treatment for neurological diseases, Blood brain barrier |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Blood brain barrier, Human brain cell culture, Animal knockouts and expertise in dissections and transplantation |
| Keywords: | Triptophan, Serotonin, NMDA receptor, Quinolinic acid, Kynurenic acid, Alzheimer's, Motor neuron disease, AIDS dementia, Multiple sclerosis, Stem cells, Blood brain barrier |
Dr Lucette Cysique
| Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Organisation: | Brain Sciences UNSW; St Vincent's Clinical School |
| Email: | lcysique@unsw.edu.au |
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| Affiliations: | St Vincent's Hospital; School of Psychiatry |
| Research Interests, Skills: | HIV Neuropsychology, Longitudinal statistical methods for detecting cognitive change, Cross-cultural neuropsychology, HIV neuroimaging (MRI, MRS, fMRI), Neuropsychology of chronic diseases (e.g. Hepatitis C, Multiple Sclerosis) |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Neuropsychology |
| Keywords: | Clinical neurospsychology, HIV infection |
Dr Gilles Guillemin
| Position: | Senior Lecturer, Senior Scientist |
| Organisation: | St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research (AMR) |
| Email: | g.guillemin@cfi.unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | School of Medical Sciences UNSW |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Tryptophan metabolism in the CNS, Neuroinflammatory diseases, Neuroprotection |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Cell culture (human brain cells and various human cell lines), RT-PCR, Real time PCR, Western blot, HPLC, GC/MS, Immunocytochemistry, Immunohistochemistry, ELISA, Transfection |
| Keywords: | Neuroscience, Neuroimmunology, Neuroinflammation, Ageing, Neurodegenerative diseases, Kynurenine pathway, Alzheimer's disease, AIDS dementia complex, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Brain tumours, Quinolinic acid |
Dr Juliana Lamoury
| Position: | Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research (AMR) |
| Email: | j.lamoury@cfi.unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Lecturer (conjoint) St Vincent's Clinical School (Neurology/Neuroimmunology) |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Neurodegenerative diseases, multiple sclerosis, leukodystrophies, spinal cord injury, adult stem cells, mesenchymal stromal cells, neural stem cells, stem cell therapy, animal models of neurodegeneration |
| Technologies, Expertise: | culture of primary neurons, glial cells and adult stems cells (MSCs, NSCs), stereotaxic neural transplantation of stem cells in mice and rats, spinal cord surgery, behavioural assessments in rodents (BBB, BMS), immunocytochemistry, confocal imaging, stereology, live cell imaging, flow cytometry, neurophysiology (rodent brain slices) |
| Keywords: | stem cell biology, chemokines, cytokines, tryptophan metabolism, kynurenine pathway, quinolinic acid, neural transplantation of adult stem cells |
Dr Romesh Markus
| Position: | Senior Lecturer (Conjoint) |
| Organisation: | St Vincent's Clinical School |
| Email: | rmarkus@stvincents.com.au |
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| Affiliations: | National Stroke Research Institute |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Imaging the ischemic penumbra (potentially salvageable brain tissue threatened by infarction) by PET, MRI, and CT and acute stroke therapy |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Image coregistration, MATLAB, Statistical parametric mapping |
| Keywords: | Positron emission tomography, MRI, CT perfusion, ischemic penumbra, stroke |
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