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Leah Acker
[Web: http://syntheticneurobiology.org/] [Email: leaha, followed by @media.mit.edu] [Phone: N/A]
Leah Acker is a Medical Engineering/Medical Physics Ph.D. student at MIT and Harvard Medical School through the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. She is an NSF graduate fellow, an NDSEG fellow, and a 2008 recipient of the NIH/American Auditory Society Graduate Research Award for her master's work on tinnitus (EECS, MIT). Her current projects involve the invention and application of new technologies for less-invasive neuromodulation, and the study of optogenetic control of brain circuits.