Dr Sina Shadfar is an Early Career Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Cellular Neurobiology Team within the multidisciplinary Centre for Motor Neuron Disease (MND) Research at Macquarie University. Dr Shadfar received his master’s degree in neuropharmacology from the college of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University in South Korea, where he studied the role of neurotrophic factors in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. During 2014 ‐ 2017, he worked as a research assistant and lab manager in the College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University.

 During his PhD, Dr Shadfar has identified novel proteins as new therapeutic targets for MND in both cells and in vivo models (zebrafish, rodents, and C. elegans). In 2018, he was awarded Federation of Europian Neuroscience Societies and International Brain Organization's (FENS-IBRO) young investigators training grant to join to the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) in Berlin, Germany, where he trained to use   Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) as a model to study ALS, under the supervision of  Prof. Dr. Janine Kirstein. 

- MEDI3301; Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Clinical Medicine, Macquarie University, Australia

-MEDI304; Advanced Clinical Science, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia

- CBMS 201/ CBMS 602; Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Department of  Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia

- Advanced Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University, South Korea, 2014-2017

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology; Neurodegenerative Disease; Amyotrophic Lateral sclerosis; Motor Neuron Disease

- Member of Macquarie University MND centre social committee team; 2021- present

- HDR students representative at  Macquarie University MND centre executive committee; 2019- 2021

- Member of Macquarie University MND centre social media team; 2020- present

- Atkin's lab representative at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Lab users meeting; 2018- present