User:Trevmar
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Trevor G Marshall, PhD; Director, Autoimmunity Research Foundation, California; Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University, Western Australia; Patron, Australian Autoimmunity Foundation; http://TrevorMarshall.com
Trevor graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, in 1973. He spent a year as Tutor at the University of Technology in Lae, Papua New Guinea, and in 1975 took a post lecturing at W.A.I.T., now Curtin University, in Western Australia. By 1978 he had transitioned to microcomputers, and he gained his Masters degree, by thesis, in 1978. Moving to the University of Western Australia he began work on his PhD thesis in Biomedicine, with clinical research at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Success using pulsatile LHRH to treat Cryptorchidism, and both Male and Female infertility, led to many publications and conference presentations during that early phase of his Biomedical career. In 1982 he moved to California. Research as a 'Visiting Scientist, Department of Surgery' at the Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto, led to his PhD thesis in 1984 - "Modelling and simulation in diabetes care." Through the decade of the 90's Trevor achieved acclaim as a pioneer in the design of high-powered multiprocessing computers, with one design receiving an 'Eddy Award' in 1993 and another being nominated in 1995. He was also at the forefront of the evolution of Internet and Linux technologies, writing a column for BYTE.com. At the turn of the millennium he returned to Biomedical research, intrigued by an observation that patients with Th1 immune disease sometimes reacted to administration of Angiotensin Receptor Blockers with neurologic manifestations, including psychedelic dreams.
He has demonstrated that inflammatory diseases often thought to be 'autoimmune' are actually caused by a defect in the innate immune system, and have very little to do with 'antibodies to self'. The FDA has granted designations for the use of the antibacterial therapy in Sarcoidosis, and recently granted a sponsorship to allow ongoing research into other autoimmune diagnoses.
His recent publications are catalogued at http://TrevorMarshall.com/papers.htm
ps: I hate writing this stuff in the third person. I do try and get to as many conferences as I can, so that I can meet you all, face to face, and use words like 'you', 'we' and 'me'
