Ye Muhamad Aprizal
First-year PhD student
Career
2016–2020 B.Sc., Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Mataram, Indonesia
2022–2024 M.Sc., Applied Biology, Faculty of Applied Science, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia
2022–2026 Research Assistant, TuAH Industrial Lab, Universiti Teknologi MARA
2023 Grand Award and Diamond Award, Invention, Innovation & Design Exposition (iiDeX 2023)
2023 Silver Medal, International Competition on Sustainable Education (SUSED 2023)
October 2026: Doctoral program (Department of Medical and Dental Sciences), Graduate School of Medical, Dental and Health Sciences, Niigata University (Department of Neuroscience of Disease, Brain Research Institute)
October 2026: MEXT Government Scholarship student, Niigata University
In their words
I have been fascinated by the human brain since my undergraduate years. It amazed me that one organ could hold our memories, our personality, and everything that makes us who we are. During my master's degree, I began studying Alzheimer's disease, and I was surprised by how much we still do not understand about it, even though medical technology has advanced so much. A disease that slowly takes away a person's memories deserves our best tools and our best efforts. Through my research on the APP gene family, I hope to uncover what happens in the brain when this disease begins and help bring us closer to better treatments.