Ted Abel

Edwin "Ted" G. Abel^[1] is an American neuroscientist, and the founding Director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute at University of Iowa and previously the Brush Family Professor of Biology at University of Pennsylvania.^[2]

Abel obtained his doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University, after working there under mentorship from Tom Maniatis. He then became a postdoc under mentorship of Eric Kandel at Columbia University.^[3] He is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science^[4] and editor-in-chief of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.^[5]