Francine Carew-Jones
Current Appointments
Brain donor liaison officerKey Research Areas
Francine has worked at NeuRA since March 2000, after completing her degree. Starting her career as a full-time research assistant working on Parkinson’s disease research with Dr Kay Double. After this time, she has worked with Professor Glenda Halliday and Dr Claire Shepherd focusing on dementia research.
She now works part-time as the Sydney Brain Bank Liaison Officer, managing relationships between the Sydney Brain Bank and the Brain Donor Programs. Francine also manages the NeuRA Volunteers brain donor program, recruiting healthy brain donors over the age of 60.
Francine is also involved with Dr Claire Shepherd’s research studies.
Publications
2020, 02 Jun
Alzheimer's amyloid-β and tau protein accumulation is associated with decreased expression of the LDL receptor-associated protein in human brain tissue.
View full journal-article on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7375106
2020, 01 Mar
CYLD is a causative gene for frontotemporal dementia - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
View full journal-article on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7089666
2019, 08 Nov
Intracellular and secreted forms of clusterin are elevated early in Alzheimer's disease and associate with both Aβ and tau pathology.
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2019.10.025
2019, 24 Apr
Coexisting Lewy body disease and clinical parkinsonism in frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000007530
2014, 24 Jan
Increased Ndfip1 in the substantia nigra of Parkinsonian brains is associated with elevated iron levels.
View full journal-article on https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24475238/?tool=EBI
2010, 29 Jan
Substantia nigra echomorphology and motor cortex excitability.
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.088
2009, 13 Mar
Anti-melanin antibodies are increased in sera in Parkinson's disease.
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.03.002
2007 Jan
Lipid content determines aggregation of neuromelanin granules in vitro.
View full journal-article on http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/17982875
2005, 31 Aug
Differential effects of human neuromelanin and synthetic dopamine melanin on neuronal and glial cells.
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.2005.03404.x
2005 Jul
Alpha-synuclein redistributes to neuromelanin lipid in the substantia nigra early in Parkinson's disease.
View full journal-article on http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/16000336
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