Council Dates: October 2013 - May 2014
Independent Position: Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Eiman Abdel-Azim was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University Medical Center. In the lab of Dr. Thomas Jessell, his research focused on how forelimb behavior is controlled by a set of cervical propriospinal neurons (PNs) that have a simple anatomical means by which to convey copies of pre-motor signals internally. PNs receive descending motor command input, and send bifurcating axonal output to forelimb motor neurons as well as to the lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), a pre-cerebellar relay. He received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard University and earned his B.A. in philosophy of science and B.S. in biology from Stanford University. Currently, Dr. Abdel-Azim is an Assistant Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.