Professor Juergen Goetz
Professor M02 - Mallet Street Campus
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Biographical details
Professor Jürgen Götz studied biochemistry at the University of Basel, and earned his PhD in immunology in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Georges Köhler at the Max-Planck-Institute in Freiburg, Germany. In 1989, Götz was awarded the title of Dr. rer. nat. with the distinction magna cum laude. After postdoctoral work at the UCSF and the Preclinical Research Division at Novartis Ltd in Basel, he established his reputation in the Alzheimer field as a research group leader at the University of Zürich (1994–2005); while at Zürich, he gained his Habilitation in Molecular Neuroscience – a thesis above the PhD in the German university system. Since 2005, he has been Chair of Molecular Biology and Director of the Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Laboratory at the Brain and Mind Research Institute of the University of Sydney. Professor Götz regularly speaks by invitation at the most important international conferences in his research area, such as Cold Spring Harbour and Keystone in the US, and the biennial ICAD (2009 plenary lecture) and AD/PD conferences. He received a DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Fellowship for postdoctoral studies in the US (1990–02); the 2002 Georg-Friedrich-Götz Prize of the University of Zurich in recognition of his outstanding research achievements; and the NSW BioFirst Award ($400k) in 2005. He is closely involved in peer review for grant bodies and journals, with an average of one review a week. Since moving to Australia, he has been a member of the NHMRC GRP panel. He is Associate Editor of JAD, the leading specialist journal in the field. Since 1999, he has secured more than than A$8.5M as first or sole CI in competitive research funding from governments, industry and philanthropic institutions.
Research interests
To find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
Current national competitive grants*
2010
Combinatorial transgenesis to dissect tauopathies
Goetz J, Ittner L
ARC Discovery Project ($555,000 over 3 years)
Biological functions of the TAR DNA binding protein 43
Ittner L, Goetz J, Haass N
ARC Discovery Project ($480,000 over 3 years)
2009
Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease and related Disorders: Mechanism of Tau Pathology
Goetz J, Ittner L
NHMRC Project Grants ($284,250 over 3 years)
Pathogenic mechanisms common to all subtypes of frontotemporal dementia
Kril J, Ittner L, Goetz J, Halliday G
NHMRC Project Grants ($491,250 over 3 years)
Novel Imboased Approach to Identify Modifiers of Alzheimer's Disease Pathology in Transgenic Mouse Models
Goetz J
Fidelity Foundation (USA) Science Grant ($511,000 over 2 years)
2008
Comparative analysis of novel transgenic mouse models formbrain and islet amyloidoses
Goetz J, Ittner L
NHMRC Project Grant ($449,250 over 3 years)
* Grants administered through the University of Sydney