Iman graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in December 2024 with a degree in molecular and cell biology, with an emphasis on biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology. For her senior thesis, “A Preliminary Look at Bone Microarchitecture in Sickle Cell Disease,” she studied how bone structure changes in people with sickle cell disease. She compared a newer imaging method, high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT), with the standard clinical tool, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), to evaluate bone quality and to provide detailed images of bone structure at the microscopic scale.
Iman is currently a clinical research coordinator at the UCSF Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) and a member of the Rabinovici Lab at the UCSF Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center, part of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. She supports studies that use molecular brain imaging to better understand the different forms of dementia and how they vary from person to person. In addition to memory and aging, her research interests include the social factors that influence health, nutrition and population health, and the history of science.