Associate Professor Arne Ittner
Matthew Flinders Fellow; Associate Professor in Neuroscience
College of Medicine and Public Health
Arne graduated in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland, in 2006 and received his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2010 for work on signal transduction by protein kinases. Arne is a Senior Research Fellow (Assistant Professor) within the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. Arne did his post-doc at the University of Sydney, Australia, within the Brain and Mind Research Institute from 2011 to 2013. In 2013, he continued his post-doctoral work at University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), where he started his own research team on signal transduction and phosphorylation events in neurons in 2017. Arne was a post-doctoral fellow with the Alzheimer’s Australia Dementia Research Foundation in 2016. Arne’s team is currently supported by ARC, NHMRC, Dementia Australia Research Foundation and Flinders Foundation. Arne was a NHMRC Emerging Leadership (EL2) fellow 2020-2024. In 2025, Arne became a Matthew Flinders fellow.
- Diploma in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, 2006, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- PhD in Cell Biology, 2010, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Matthew Flinders fellow, Flinders University, 2025
- Publication of the year award as EMCR from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences of Macquarie University, 2020
- Paxinos-Watson award of the Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) 2017
- UNSW Faculty of Medicine - Dean’s Rising Star Award Early Career Researcher
- Lead a research lab focused on memory and dementia.
- Conduct cutting-edge neuroscience research on Tau biology.
- Secure competitive research funding and lead major projects, supported through e.g., ARC and NHMRC
- Supervise and mentor under-graduate, graduate students, and early-career researchers.
- Contribute to teaching in Neuroscience courses
- Reviewer on the Flinders University Institutional Biosafety Committee.
- Contribution of lectures and tutorials in Fundamental Neuroscience MMED2933
- Contribution of lectures and lab visits in Fundamental Neuroscience MMED3931
- Dementia
- Neuroscience
- Memory
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