Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
| Ishmail Abdus-Saboor | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏫 Education | University of Pennsylvania Weill Cornell Medicine North Carolina A&T State University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🌐 Website | Abdus-Saboor Lab |
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University, where he studies pain perception, including the development of platforms to measure pain response in rodents, and the molecular response of rewarding and therapeutic social touch.
Early life and education[edit]
Adbus-Saboor's interest in biology started as early as his teen years, when, at the age of 14, he studied crayfish claw development in a makeshift laboratory on the third floor of his parent's home.[1] These experiments won the first place prize at his high school science fair. Abdus-Saboor then went on to study Animal Science at North Carolina A&T State University, although he grew disillusioned with the routine work of veterinary medicine. After spending a summer internship doing molecular biology lab work at the University of Pennsylvania in between his junior and senior year, Abdus-Saboor enrolled in the Cell and Molecular Biology graduate program at Penn, earning his PhD in 2012, where he studied C. elegans excretory tube development under Meera Sundaram. Two postdocs then followed, first at Weill Cornell Medicine studying mice smell perception and then Penn, working on the neuronal sensations of touch.
Research and career[edit]
In 2018 Abdus-Saboor started his lab at Penn, studying how the nervous system differentiates between different touch sensations, including determining the genetic and neuronal circuits underlying different behaviors, such as pain. [2] In 2021, Abdus-Saboor moved to Columbia University, where he is an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.
Abdus-Saboors current research focuses on developing platforms to measure the pain response in mice, focusing on recording mice behavior and using image analysis to objectively measure pain. Abdus-Saboor is also researching how social touch differs from the pain response, including determining the underlying neuronal circuit for pain vs rewarding tactile perception.
Awards and honours[edit]
Abdus-Saboors awards and honours include:
- 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow[3]
- 2020 Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain Scholar[4]
- 2018 NIH Mitchell Max Award for Excellence in Pain Research[5]
- 2017 MIT Rising Stars in Biomedical[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ "2018: Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD - Burroughs Wellcome Fund".
- ↑ "Ishmail Abdus-Saboor | Department of Biology".
- ↑ "2021 Fellows".
- ↑ "Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain - Rita Allen Foundation".
- ↑ "2018 Mitchell Max Award for Research Excellence". Pain Consortium.
- ↑ "Rising Stars: URM 2017 – Rising Stars in Biomedical".
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