Ranjani Shankar, BS

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Fields of Interest

Ranjani Shankar is a clinical research coordinator at the UCSF Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center, where she works in Dr. Gil Rabinovici’s In Vivo Molecular Neuroimaging Lab. She graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science, specializing in clinical aspects of cognition, and a minor in psychology.

Her academic and professional experience includes training animals for single-cell recordings in a neuroscience lab focused on spatial navigation and working in a psychiatry lab to study pupillometry as a predictor of Alzheimer’s disease. She contributes to various aspects of research, including literature reviews, data collection, and analysis.

At UCSF, Ranjani plays a key role in clinical research efforts aimed at improving our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions. Her work supports studies that utilize advanced neuroimaging techniques to uncover critical insights into disease mechanisms, thereby improving patient care and outcomes.

Publications

Amyloid PET in Sporadic Early- Versus Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease: Comparison of the LEADS and ADNI Cohorts.

Lagarde J, Maiti P, Schonhaut DR, Blazhenets G, Zhang J, Eloyan A, Thangarajah M, Taurone A, Allen IE, Soleimani-Meigooni DN, Zeltzer E, Windon C, Abu Raya M, Vrillon A, Smith K, Shankar R, Amuiri A, Rocha S, Hammers DB, Dage JL, Nudelman KN, Kirby K, Aisen P, Koeppe R, Landau SM, Carrillo MC, Touroutoglou A, Brickhouse M, Vemuri P, Beckett L, Raman R, Atri A, Day GS, Duara R, Graff-Radford NR, Honig LS, Jones DT, Masdeu JC, Mendez MF, Womack K, Musiek E, Onyike CU, Riddle M, Grant IM, Rogalski E, Johnson ECB, Salloway S, Sha S, Turner RS, Wingo TS, Wolk DA, Dickerson BC, Apostolova LG, La Joie R, Rabinovici GD, LEADS Consortium for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Annals of neurology

Head-to-head comparison between plasma p-tau217 and flortaucipir-PET in amyloid-positive patients with cognitive impairment.

Mundada NS, Rojas JC, Vandevrede L, Thijssen EH, Iaccarino L, Okoye OC, Shankar R, Soleimani-Meigooni DN, Lago AL, Miller BL, Teunissen CE, Heuer H, Rosen HJ, Dage JL, Jagust WJ, Rabinovici GD, Boxer AL, La Joie R

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Amyloid and tau-PET in early-onset AD: Baseline data from the Longitudinal Early-onset Alzheimer's Disease Study (LEADS).

Cho H, Mundada NS, Apostolova LG, Carrillo MC, Shankar R, Amuiri AN, Zeltzer E, Windon CC, Soleimani-Meigooni DN, Tanner JA, Heath CL, Lesman-Segev OH, Aisen P, Eloyan A, Lee HS, Hammers DB, Kirby K, Dage JL, Fagan A, Foroud T, Grinberg LT, Jack CR, Kramer J, Kukull WA, Murray ME, Nudelman K, Toga A, Vemuri P, Atri A, Day GS, Duara R, Graff-Radford NR, Honig LS, Jones DT, Masdeu J, Mendez M, Musiek E, Onyike CU, Riddle M, Rogalski EJ, Salloway S, Sha S, Turner RS, Wingo TS, Wolk DA, Koeppe R, Iaccarino L, Dickerson BC, La Joie R, Rabinovici GD, LEADS Consortium

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Multimodal Biomarkers of Repetitive Head Impacts and Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome: A Clinico-Pathological Case Series.

Asken B, Tanner JA, VandeVrede L, Casaletto KB, Staffaroni AM, Mundada N, Fonseca C, Iaccarino L, La Joie R, Tsuei T, Mladinov M, Grant H, Shankar R, Wang KKW, Xu H, Cobigo Y, Rosen H, Gardner RC, Perry DC, Miller BL, Spina S, Seeley WW, Kramer J, Grinberg LT, Rabinovici G

Journal of neurotrauma