Elijah Lapeza is a PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering Program at Georgia Tech and Emory, and a fellow in the NIBIB Computational Neural Engineering Training Program. He received his undergraduate degrees in Biology and Philosophy from Emory University. He has conducted neurophysiological research in the mouse models of Parkinson’s disease and behavioral research in genetically-modified flies. He is broadly interested in how plasticity and neural prosthetics can make a difference in the lives of amputees and individuals with physical disabilities.
Position in lab: Graduate Rotation Student (2025)
Position after Fong Lab: Rotation Student in Michael Borich’s lab at Emory University