Professor Trevor Kilpatrick

Professor Trevor Kilpatrick

Division Head
Multiple Sclerosis

Trevor Kilpatrick leads the MS Division at FNI and is a neurologist and Head of the MS Unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, in addition to being Director of the Centre for Neuroscience Melbourne Neuroscience Institute at The University of Melbourne. His research interests include the neurobiology of multiple sclerosis, neural precursor cell biology and the study of genetic and environmental factors that contribute to MS as well as the translation of basic research discoveries to the clinic.


Professor Kilpatrick has been the recipient of the Sunderland Award, AMRAD Postdoctoral Award and the inaugural Leonard Cox Award. More recently, Professor Kilpatrick and his Group were awarded the Australian Museum’s Jamie Callachor Eureka Prize for Medical Research (2008) in recognition of their extraordinary contribution to medical research into multiple sclerosis.

 

Publications

Listed below are Professor Trevor Kilpatrick’s most recent publications.

  1. Ma G, Stankovich J; Australia and New Zealand Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium (ANZgene), Kilpatrick T, Binder M, Field J.
    Polymorphisms in the receptor tyrosine kinase MERTK gene are associated with multiple sclerosis susceptibility. PLoS One 1970-01-01;6(2):e16964. PMID: 21347448