Priya Rajasethupathy, M.D., Ph.D.

Priya Rajasethupathy is the Jonathan M. Nelson Family Associate Professor and head of the Laboratory of Neural Dynamics & Cognition at the Rockefeller University. She obtained her B.A. from Cornell University and an M.D. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Columbia University, working with Eric Kandel. She did her post-doctoral work at Stanford University with Karl Deisseroth. Rajasethupathy is a Vallee, Searle and Klingenstein Scholar and has been a recipient of an NIH New Innovator Award, a Presidential Early Career Award and the MIND Prize.