Kamalini Ranasinghe, MBBS, PhD, is an assistant professor at the UCSF Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center within the Weill Institute for Neurosciences. She specializes in investigating the network dysfunction underlying neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
As a physician-neuroscientist, she is passionate about understanding how neurons and neural networks support human cognition and how their function is disrupted with the accumulation of proteins in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Her research program uses electrophysiology in conjunction with molecular imaging to investigate dysfunctional neural circuits and their mechanistic relationships with proteinopathies in neurodegenerative diseases. She currently leads the electrophysiological studies in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia syndromes at the Fein Memory and Aging Center. She holds grant support from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the Alzheimer’s Association, and the Hillblom Foundation, and her research work has been featured in multiple research publications.