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Jürgen Götz

University of Queensland, QLD, Australia

Professor Jürgen Götz is the Lesleigh Green - Bill and Nancy Green Endowed Chair in Dementia Research and inaugural Director of the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research at the Queensland Brain Institute in Brisbane (Australia). Professor Götz studied biochemistry in Switzerland and earned his PhD in immunology with Nobel Laureate Köhler in Germany. After postdoctoral work at UCSF and at Novartis, he became a group leader in Zürich, before moving to the University of Sydney in 2005, and to the University of Queensland (Queensland Brain Institute) in 2012. His laboratory focuses on gaining a mechanistic understanding of Alzheimer’s disease, exploring anti-tau antibodies, and developing therapeutic ultrasound into a treatment strategy for Alzheimer’s disease. His team has built a clinical trial-ready investigational device that is currently being used in a safety trial in study participants with Alzheimer’s disease.