Akram Esfandani is a Ph.D. student in the Dulin Lab in the Department of Biology at Texas A&M University. She holds an M.D. degree and has prior experience conducting clinical research across multiple disciplines, with a primary focus on neurological disorders. Her doctoral research focuses on elucidating the neuroimmune and autonomic mechanisms underlying male infertility following spinal cord injury. She also contributes to projects investigating neural regeneration after spinal cord injury.