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Professor Lars Ittner

Consulting Head, GEM

Professor Ittner has over 20 years of experience in all aspects of genetically modified mice.  He trained in medicine at the University of Ulm in Germany and received his M.D. from the University of Zurich in Switzerland in 2002. His research program focuses on neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, related forms of dementia and stroke. In 2018, he was appointed to Macquarie University to head the Dementia Research Centre of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Professor Ittner consults on the scientific program and operations of the university’s Genome Editing service GEM.