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Colin Collins, PhD

Biographical Sketch

BS, 1982, Western New England College, Springfield, MA, Biology

Certificate, 1985, San Francisco State, San Francisco, CA, Genetic Engineering

PhD, 1993, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Genetics

 

 

1985-1988

Biomedical Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA

1988-1993

Scientist, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

1993

Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA

1993-1998

Staff Scientist, Life Sciences Division, Resource for Molecular Cytogenetics, Center for Applied Genomics, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

1998-2005

Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine
and Cancer Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA

2005-Present

Associate Professor, Department of Urology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA


Colin Collins attended Western New England College and received his PhD at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He received two Predoctoral Fellowships, from 1989 to 1991 the Huntington Society of Canada Predoctoral Fellowship, and in 1992 the Medical Research Council of Canada Predoctoral Fellowship. Collins completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco in 1993, joining the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that same year. In 1998 He was appointed Assistant Professor at UCSF with a joint appointment from the Department of Laboratory Medicine and the Cancer Research Institute. In 2005 Collins was appointed faculty in the Department of Urology.

Collins has published over 60 scientific papers and holds multiple patents in the field of cancer. He has a long-standing interest in the application of genomics to basic and translational cancer research.