I am Joshua, a graduate student of the Metabolic and cardiovascular diseases doctoral programme at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. My interest in Neurodegenerative diseases got developed during my master's programme when l researched on Prion diseases or Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), a family of rare but fatal neurodegenerative disease that affect both animals and human beings. For my doctoral dissertation, l am investigating Activating Low density lipoprotein receptor related protein 1 (LRP-1) at the blood brain barrier and the combinational effects of Type 2 Diabetes and post-translational modification of the amyloid beta peptides on the pathophysiology and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). My research interests includes pathophysiology and immunobiology of Neurodegenerative diseases, cross talk between metabolic dysfunctions and dementia and dietary life style changes as a modifiable risk factor in the pathophysiology of AD and related dementia. In my leisure time, l communicate science via my social media platforms (@babalolaadekun1 on twitter and www.linkedin.com/in/joshuababalola on Linkedin).