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]
Abel 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]