NINDS K99/R00 Awardee - May 2017
Independent Position: Columbia University
Dr. Vikram Gadagkar will start his own research lab in the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University beginning in 2020. He is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University, New York with Dr. Jesse Goldberg. Using the songbird model, he aims to decipher how motor sequences are learned during natural trial and error, with the ultimate goal of understanding how this fails in neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. He completed his Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University, New York. He has a BS in physics, chemistry and mathematics from Bangalore University, India, and MS in physics from the Indian Institute of Science, India.