People

Maya Bardorf, BS

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Maya graduated from Middlebury College in 2024 with a BA degree in neuroscience and a minor in art history. During her time at Middlebury, she contributed to a research project investigating gender and sex differences in visuospatial abilities among children using the Judgment of Line and Position Task (JLAP). Maya also spent a summer as a research assistant in the Hammack Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Vermont, where she studied the neurobiological underpinning of anxiety-like and depression-like behaviors.

Eden Barragan, PhD

Research Specialist

Eden received a BS degree in Biological Sciences from UC Irvine and a PhD in Neuroscience from UC Davis. Her doctoral work broadly focused on learning, memory, and synaptic plasticity. Now, as a member of the Boxer Lab, she is interested in facilitating more equitable and inclusive research of neurodegenerative disorders.

Phaedra Bell, PhD

Program Lead UCSF Dyslexia Ctr

After over a decade in education leadership, teaching, leading teams, and developing programs in the arts, humanities, and medical education, I am putting those skills to use in approaching dementia as a global public health challenge. As an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Global Brain Health, I am working with colleagues at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, the Division of Geriatrics, and at Trinity College Dublin to develop protocols for intervening in modifiable risk factors for dementia across the life course.

Morgan Blackburn

Clinical Research Coordinator

Morgan is a clinical research coordinator in the Rosen Lab who works on the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), Longitudinal Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Study (LEADS) and UCSF Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) studies.

Ganna Blazhenets, PhD

Ganna Blazhenets, PhD

Assistant Researcher

Christine Boesch

Affiliate
Rian Bogley

Rian Bogley

Database Architect

Rian graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2018 with a BS degree in Biology and has over five years of research experience at UCSF. As the ALBA Language Neurobiology Lab and Dyslexia Center's Database Architect, he develops and implements database systems for both teams, leveraging his experience in data management, data analysis, and neuroimaging.

Adam Boxer, MD, PhD

Professor

Adam L. Boxer, MD, PhD, is Endowed Professor in Memory and Aging in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He directs UCSF’s Neurosciences Clinical Research Unit and the Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) Clinical Trials Program at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. Dr.

Tiffany Brailow, BA

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Tiffany graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2024 with a dual degree in Cognitive Science and Art Practice. During her time at UC Berkeley, she worked as a Research Assistant with Dr. Elliot Marseille at the Collaborative for the Economics of Psychedelics (CEP) and with Dr. Alison Gopnik at the Gopnik Cognitive Development and Learning Lab.

Nicole Bronson

Clinical Research Nurse

Melissa Brown

Learning & Intervention Specialist

Melissa is a Learning & Intervention Specialist in the ALBA Lab and Dyslexia Center.

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