Omar Jaidar, Ph.D.

Omar Jaidar is a mentor in the 2024 SURFiN program. He is a life research staff scientist in Mark Schnitzer’s lab at Stanford University. Jaidar holds a bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences and a doctorate in neuroscience from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His research focuses on longitudinal multisite two-photon imaging of the Cortico-basal ganglia loop across motor learning.

Principal Investigator: Mark Schnitzer