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Kumar B. Rajan, PhD

Kumar B. Rajan, PhD
Section Chief, Community Epidemiology
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, RUSH Medical College
Director, Institute for Aging
Education

PhD, University of Washington, Seattle

Research Areas

Statistical Methods for the Epidemiology of Alzheimer’s disease

Contact Info:

1700 W. Van Buren Street
Suite 245, Triangle Office Building
Chicago, IL 60612
kumar_rajan@rush.edu
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Biography

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.

Honors and Activities

Runner-up Best Student Presentation, International Biometric Society, 2008
Runner-up Best Student Paper, International Biometric Society, 2008 

Publications

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Grants

 

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