Research Domain Coordinator - Trevor Kilpatrick, Neurosciences and Behavioural Sciences
Research Domain Coordinator - Trevor Kilpatrick, Neurosciences and Behavioural Sciences
"The main challenge is coordinating and providing leadership to research in the neurosciences that is dispersed among multiple centres," says Trevor Kilpatrick, domain coordinator for the neurosciences research domain.
As Director of the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne, leader of the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Group at the Howard Florey Institute and Head of the MS CARE Unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Trevor is experienced in forming alliances and collaborations. "A clear voice is needed for the neuroscience research being conducted by the University of Melbourne."
Trevor is a clinician scientist whose basic research focuses on the neurobiology of MS, in particular oligodendrocytic biology, and upon regenerative medicine. He has initiated a number of multicentre collaborations to study the genetics and epidemiology of MS and is developing translational platforms for therapeutics that target neurodegenerative diseases. His epidemiological research currently concentrates on an incident case-control study examining environmental risks for the onset of first demyelinating events. A major a priori focus of the study is to clarify whether there is an inverse correlation between levels of ultraviolet irradiation and risk of MS.