IANTHE PITOUT, The Personalised Medicine Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia

Dr Ianthe Pitout, PhD, is group leader of the Oligo Therapeutics Laboratory at the Personalised Medicine Centre at Murdoch University in Western Australia. Ianthe specialises in the design and development of splice-modulating antisense oligonucleotides to treat disorders of the central nervous system. She is an experienced biotechnology researcher, having worked in both academic and industry sectors, and is an inventor of several splice-modulating antisense oligonucleotides in preclinical and clinical development for treating retinal, neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases. Her research at the Personalised Medicine Centre currently focuses on the development of antisense oligonucleotide therapeutics for treating an inherited form of motor neuron disease.