Ishmail Adbus-Saboor, Ph.D.

Abdus-Saboor is an associate professor and principal investigator at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. His lab is integrating the peripheral and central nervous systems to uncover genes and neural circuits for somatosensation from the skin to the spinal cord and brain. He and his team are also interested in how disease states like chronic pain, stress and cancer affect the encoding of somatosensation. Since opening his lab in July 2018, he has received generous support for his research, including an NIH Pathway to Independence Award and an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.