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Iahn Cajigas, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Iahn Cajigas received the BS and MEng degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in 2002 and 2003 respectively. He completed his PhD in Medical and Electrical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology between 2007-2012. During his doctoral research he was awarded the MIT Presidential Fellowship along with an NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship. He completed medical school training at Harvard Medical School in 2014 as part of the Harvard MD-PhD Program and the joint Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology and residency training in Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital in 2021. He completed a post graduate fellowship in epilepsy and functional neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco in 2022.

During his residency training, Dr. Cajigas worked on the development of models of laser interstitial thermal therapy for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy and brain tumors, validation of algorithms for localizing the seizure onset zone in patients with epilepsy, and a novel brain computer interface for the volitional restoration of hand grasp in a patient with cervical quadriplegia in collaboration with the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, the University of Miami (UM) Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the UM Department of Neurological Surgery. He was recently awarded the NIH R25 for his brain machine interface research. His clinical interests include the surgical management of epilepsy, novel treatment paradigms for spinal cord injury, and deep brain stimulation for movement disorders.

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