Ibrahim Javed

Dr Ibrahim Javed is currently a Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow at La Trobe University. He previously held an NHMRC Emerging Leadership (EL1) fellowship. He is leading the laboratory of Gut-Brain Axis, Aging and Therapeutics. Research in Javed’s lab focuses on infectious gut bacteria in correlation to aging and Alzheimer's disease. His team has discovered and published the molecular details of how bad bacteria in the gut can trigger a younger onset (aged under 65) and accelerate Alzheimer's disease, and how the brain can develop this disease when fighting microbial biofilms in the gut – the infectious etiology of Dementia.
With this research trajectory, his vision is to develop therapy that can prevent and slow down Alzheimer's disease from multiple fronts.
He also has a passion for public communication of scientific research. He has written science stories for The Scientia Global Magazine UK, Insight+, The Medical Journal of Australia, a podcast with Duke University Food Policy Centre, and interviews through ABC Radio, Radio 2 SM, Herald Sun and Channel 7 News. He is also an editorial board member of the Nature Communications Biology journal.