Ahmed Ibrahim Zaher
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

現在の研究テーマ（current research project）

The mind never sleeps. Although the body can idle, our brain must have something to do.
Most of creative ideas and thinking are evolved during the idling state. Sleep has an important role in problem solving all we have to do is to sleep on it. My research project aims to investigate the role of offline states help us in creative thinking and problem solving.

抱負（ambitious future plan）

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain.
Our entire view of the universe depends on it" Francis crick.
My future plan is to discover more and more about the human brain as what we know is just a drop in ocean.

専門分野 （background scientific field）

Pharmacy, Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical science, Molecular biology

略 歴（personal history）

(2025-till now) Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toyama, Japan.
(2021-2024) PhD student Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toyama, Japan.
(2019-2021) Teaching Assistant, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt
(2013-2018) Bachelor of Clinical pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt with cumulative GPA 3.96

業 績（publications）

• Ahmed Z. Ibrahim, Kareem Abdou, Masanori Nomoto, Kaori Yamada-Nomoto, Reiko Okubo-Suzuki and Kaoru Inokuchi.
  Sleep- driven prefrontal cortex coordinates temporal action and multimodal integration. Molecular Brain, 18:4, 2025.
• Kareem Abdou, Masanori Nomoto, Mohamed H. Aly, Ahmed Z. Ibrahim, Kiriko Choko, Reiko Okubo-Suzuki, Shin-ichi Muramatsu, and Kaoru Inokuchi.(2024) Prefrontal coding of learned and inferred knowledge during REM and NREM sleep. Nature Communications, 15: 4566, 2024.

趣味・特技（hobby, specialty）

Football, Tennis, swimming and travelling

アピールポイントなど特に記載したいこと（appeal to the audiences）

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new" Albert Einstein.
The master has failed more times than a beginner has even tried