Rodney Sinclair

Department of Dermatology, University of Melbourne, Australia

Professor Rodney Sinclair is Professor of Dermatology at the University of Melbourne, Director of Dermatology Services at St Vincent's Hospital and Director of Research and Training at the Skin and Cancer Foundation. He is Immediate Past President of the Skin and Cancer Foundation of Victoria and President Elect of the Australasian Society for Dermatology Research.
The main research interests of the department relate to:
1. Hair biology and in particular hair fibre structure, female pattern hair loss, cicatricial alopecia and genetics of hair diseases
2. Health services research and community education
3. Photobiology and in particular chronic actinic dermatitis
4. Cutaneous T cell Lymphoma
5. Clinical trials

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Dermatology > Hair Diseases (since 15 November 2005)

Rodney Sinclair is a Section Head for Hair Diseases, part of the DERMATOLOGY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://www.dermatology.svhm.org.au

All recent recommendations

• 6.0
  Temporary hair removal by low fluence photoepilation: histological study on biopsies and cultured human hair follicles.
  Recommended by Rodney Sinclair
  
• 6.0
  Wnt-dependent de novo hair follicle regeneration in adult mouse skin after wounding.
  Recommended by Rodney Sinclair
  
• 6.0
  Dutasteride improves male pattern hair loss in a randomized study in identical twins.
  Recommended by Rodney Sinclair
  
• 3.0
  Distinct mechanisms underlie pattern formation in the skin and skin appendages.
  Recommended by Rodney Sinclair
  
• 6.4
  SLC24A5, a putative cation exchanger, affects pigmentation in zebrafish and humans.
  Recommended by Boris Bastian, Rodney Sinclair
  
• 3.0
  Distinguishing androgenetic alopecia from chronic telogen effluvium when associated in the same patient: a simple noninvasive method.
  Recommended by Francisco Camacho
  Dissent by Rodney Sinclair
• 8.0
  Common loss-of-function variants of the epidermal barrier protein filaggrin are a major predisposing factor for atopic dermatitis.
  Recommended by Rodney Sinclair, Arnold Oranje
  
• 3.0
  Stem cells in the hair follicle bulge contribute to wound repair but not to homeostasis of the epidermis.
  Recommended by Rodney Sinclair