Anatomical Pathology research

The Department of Anatomical Pathology’s main research areas involve collaborative projects on breast cancer, liver cancer, prostate cancer, melanoma, muscle disease and neurodegenerative diseases.

Grants

Professor McLean is a co-investigator on the Victorian Cancer Agency Melbourne Melanoma Project Award (2014- 2017), of over $3 million, led by Professor Grant McArthur of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. The Victorian Melanoma Service is also a co-investigator on this project.

In collaboration with her Monash University partner Professor Christina Mitchell, Professor Catriona MacLean was awarded:

  • A five-year NHMRC Project Grant (2015-2019) of $916,231 entitled ‘Characterisation of autophagy deficiency in skeletal muscle homeostasis’ (CIA: Mitchell; CIC: McLean).
  • A 12-month Cancer Council Victoria Grant-in-Aid for 2015 of $100,000 entitled ‘Characterisation of a novel oncogenic pathway in breast cancer’ (CIA: Mitchell; CIB: McLean). Studies will be aimed at looking at both primary and secondary tumour growth.

Prizes

In 2014, trainee Dr Louise Jackett and Professor McLean were awarded first prize at the National Update in Pathology (a Royal College of Pathologists of Australia meeting) for their work on ‘Correlation of autopsy pathology with clinical diagnoses in life’. Appreciating the diagnoses that are missed provides an important contribution to improving clinical practice at Alfred Health.

Publications

Multisite study of the relationships between antemortem [11C]PIB-PET Centiloid values and postmortem measures of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology

La Joie R, Ayakta N, Seeley WW, Borys E, Boxer AL, DeCarli C, Doré V, Grinberg LT, Huang E, Hwang JH, Ikonomovic MD, Jack C Jr, Jagust WJ, Jin LW, Klunk WE, Kofler J, Lesman-Segev OH, Lockhart SN, Lowe VJ, Masters CL, Mathis CA, McLean CL, Miller BL, Mungas D, O'Neil JP, Olichney JM, Parisi JE, Petersen RC, Rosen HJ, Rowe CC, Spina S, Vemuri P, Villemagne VL, Murray ME, Rabinovici GD

(2019), ALZHEIMERS DEMENT, 15(2), 205-16

DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2018.09.001

Recessive MYH7-related myopathy in two families

Beecroft SJ, van de Locht M, de Winter JM, Ottenheijm CA, Sewry CA, Mohammed S, Ryan MM, Woodcock IR, Sanders L, Gooding R, Davis MR, Oates EC, Laing NG, Ravenscroft G, McLean CA, Jungbluth H

(2019), NEUROMUSCULAR DISORD, 29(6), 456-67

DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2019.04.002

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia: update to 31 December 2018

Stehmann C, Senesi M, Lewis V, Ummi M, Simpson M, Klug G, McLean C, Masters C, Collins S

(2019), Comm Dis Intell, 43

DOI: 10.33321/cdi.2019.43.35

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