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Email

v.lewis@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Postdoctoral Prion Research Fellow
Department of Medicine
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
La Trobe University
ORCID

0000-0003-2936-6308

Dr Vicki Lewis

Postdoctoral Prion Research Fellow
Department of Medicine

74 Scholarly works
6 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Stereotaxic Delivery of M1000 Prions to the Hippocampus Induces Related Behavioural and Cognitive Changes Consistent with Acute Neurotoxic Effects
    DOI: 10.1007/s12035-025-05511-2
  • 2026

    Journal article

    A fixed brain seeded amplification assay to complement neuropathological prion disease diagnosis
    DOI: 10.1093/jnen/nlaf105
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia: update to 31 December 2024
    DOI: 10.33321/cdi.2025.49.050
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia: update to 31 December 2023
    DOI: 10.33321/cdi.2025.49.012
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Prion Disease Diagnostic Biomarker Utility in Pre-symptomatic Disease
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-97055-9_4
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Correction to: Assessing the newly proposed MRI criteria for diagnosing sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (Neuroradiology, (2024), 66, 11, (1907-1915), 10.1007/s00234-024-03440-w)
    DOI: 10.1007/s00234-024-03455-3
  • 2019

    Research Grant

    CJDSGN 2019 Memorial Grant in Memory of Frank Burton
Vicki Lewis

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2025
2009
C.J. Martin Research Fellowship (National Health & Medical Research Council, Australia) (CJMartin)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    Assessing the newly proposed MRI criteria for diagnosing sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
    DOI: 10.1007/s00234-024-03440-w
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Alzheimer's disease biomarker utilization at first referral enhances differential diagnostic precision with simultaneous exclusion of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
    DOI: 10.1002/dad2.12548
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia: update to 31 December 2022
    DOI: 10.33321/cdi.2023.47.37
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Tailored behavioural tests reveal early and progressive cognitive deficits in M1000 prion disease
    DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106075

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2018

    Research Grant

    CJDSGN Memorial Award 2018 in Memory of Michael Luscombe
  • 2018

    Research Grant

    CJDSGN Memorial Grant-City2Sea 2018 - In Memory Of: Stephen (Jake) O'Hara (Team Jake), Jennifer Duckworth (Team Jenny} and Others Lost to CJD'.
  • 2014

    Research Grant

    Assessing the Acute in Vivo Neurotoxicity of Misfolded, Disease-Associated Prion Protein Species (PrPSc) Underpinning Prion Disease.
  • 2013

    Internal Research Grant

    Discovering 'C3': Characterization of a Novel Prion Protein Cleavage Event.

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