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Dr. Prita Riana Asih earned her Bachelor of Science degree with first class Honours in Biotechnology from Murdoch University in 2014, where she received the upper class prize for her work in the field. Her Honours project focused on investigating the role of translocator protein (TSPO) ligands in beta amyloid toxicity and steroid production in vitro. Following this accomplishment, she was invited to work in Dr. Makoto Higuchi’s laboratory in NIRS, Japan, for a period of seven months, where she investigated TSPO ligands using a TSPO knockout model. Prior to her Honours completion, she worked as a research assistant at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, from 2009, where she investigated the role of testosterone in preventing Alzheimer's Disease, leading clinical trials in her home country, Indonesia. Dr. Asih earned her PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of New South Wales in February 2019, focusing on TSPO function in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal Dementia under the supervision of Professor Lars Ittner. She was also a part-time research assistant at the KaRa Institute of Neurological Disease. Currently, she is a research associate at the Dementia Research Centre at Macquarie University, working under the leadership of Dr. Arne Ittner.
Applied to Department of Business (MBA Program).