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Abid Hussaini Ph.D.
Biography
Dr. Abid Hussaini earned his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, focusing on the neurobiology of learning and memory. Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Hussaini moved to the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University for his postdoctoral training under the mentorship of Nobel laureate Dr. Eric Kandel, where he investigated the role of hippocampal place cells in the spatial memory of HCN1 knockout mice. During his postdoctoral tenure, he was also a visiting scientist in the labs of Dr. Edvard Moser and Dr. May-Britt Moser in Trondheim, Norway, contributing to the understanding of grid cell function in the entorhinal cortex of HCN1 mice. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Taub Institute at Columbia University Medical Center, where he studied how Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology impacts the entorhinal cortex-hippocampal circuit. More recently, he has also been investigating the role of the locus coeruleus (LC) in neurodegeneration.
Dr. Hussaini joined the Burke Neurological Institute in 2025 to further his understanding of selectively vulnerable regions in AD. Using a systems neuroscience approach, he aims to identify early signs of dysfunction in neurons and circuits and implement methods to restore their function to improve memory.