Lars Ittner MD

Lars Ittner is a Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and a Senior Principal Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA). Lars graduated in Medicine from the University of Ulm in Germany, and received his M.D. from the University of Zurich in Switzerland in 2002, where he then studied neuronal stem cells and signalling pathways. In 2005, he moved to Australia to focus his work on basic pathomechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases. In 2013, he was appointed to the University of New South Wales in Sydney to head the Dementia Research and the Transgenic Animal Units.