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Shireen Lamande

Professor
Cell Biology
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia

Professor Pediatrics
Biography

Dr Shireen Lamandé obtained her PhD at the University of Melbourne, studying the collagen mutations that cause osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease). Her research continues to focus on the molecular genetics of inherited disorders of the musculoskeletal system, including muscular dystrophy and bone and cartilage disorders. She is a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellow and an Honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne. She is the current president of the International Society for Matrix Biology and on the Editorial Board of the journal Matrix Biology.

Research Intrest

pediatrics

List of Publications
Lamandé SR, Yuan Y, Gresshoff IL, Rowley L, Belluoccio D, Kaluarachchi K, Little CB, Botzenhart E, Zerres K, Amor DJ, Cole WG. Mutations in TRPV4 cause an inherited arthropathy of hands and feet. Nature genetics. 2011 Nov 1;43(11):1142-6.
Tooley LD, Zamurs LK, Beecher N, Baker NL, Peat RA, Adams NE, Bateman JF, North KN, Baldock C, Lamandé SR. Collagen VI microfibril formation is abolished by an α2 (VI) von Willebrand factor type A domain mutation in a patient with Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2010 Oct 22;285(43):33567-76.
Bateman JF, Boot-Handford RP, Lamandé SR. Genetic diseases of connective tissues: cellular and extracellular effects of ECM mutations. Nature reviews. Genetics. 2009 Mar 1;10(3):173.
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