PhD, University of Washington, Seattle
Statistical Methods for the Epidemiology of Alzheimer’s disease
Kumar B. Rajan, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Director of the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging and Section Chief of Community and Nutritional Epidemiology.
His research interests focus on the epidemiology of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). He is the Principal Investigator for a population-based community study, the Chicago Health and Aging Project (CHAP), and the second-generation Parent Offspring Resilience and Cognitive Health (PORCH) study.
He has received over $30 million in NIH funding and published over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts in leading journals.
Runner-up Best Student Presentation, International Biometric Society, 2008
Runner-up Best Student Paper, International Biometric Society, 2008
R01 AG051635
Rajan (PI)
9/1/2016 to 10/31/2021
NIH/NIA
Nonlinear Models of Cognition Preceding AD and non-AD in a Biracial Population
Sample Role: Principal Investigator
NIRG-2014-
Rajan (PI)
5/1/2014 to 4/30/2016
Alzheimer’s Association
Role of Activities on Genetic Risk of Neurodegeneration by race/ethnicity
Role: Principal Investigator