Senegal Alfred Mabry is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the neuroscience area of the Department of Psychology in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. He is working to characterize the heart-brain axis in Parkinson’s disease using magnetic resonance imaging. He aims to understand why people with Parkinson’s may struggle to perceive their internal bodily sensations and how interventions like exercise training reduce Parkinson’s symptoms.

In 2024, he was named a Cell Press Rising Black Scientist of the Year in the Life Sciences. The National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health awarded him a fellowship to present at the 2nd Annual NIH Investigator Meeting for Interoception Research in 2023. He is a member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Plasticity of Well-being Collective of Emerging Scholars (WeMerge) and an alum of the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Summer Program in Excellence in Neuroscience (SPINES) program.