Dr Eiman Azim, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University in New York and winner of the 25,000 USD Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology 2014. Eiman Azim’s work offers fundamental new insights into the neural mechanisms that enable skilled limb movements to be both smooth and precise. To understand how the nervous system enables our arms to reach out and grab an object with speed and precision, Azim and his colleagues conducted studies in mice to disentangle neural pathways and pinpoint individual spinal circuits that are involved in skilled motor control.