Rachel Nosheny, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry Co-Investigator for the Brain Health Registry University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Nosheny is a neuroscientist with molecular/cellular and clinical research experience focused on age-related cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease, Down syndrome, and AIDS Dementia. After receiving her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Georgetown University, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University, where she identified important synaptic and intercellular signaling abnormalities in mouse models of Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease.  

Since joining the Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND) in 2012, her research efforts have focused on novel strategies to identify risk of cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease, using Brain Health Registry and Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) data.

In 2016 she lead the development of the Study Partner Portal within BHR, a novel tool for engaging with and collecting information from study/care partners of BHR participants. A major goal of Dr. Nosheny’s current research is to validate the data collected from the Study Partner Portal in order to facilitate Alzheimer’s and aging clinical research studies and clinical trials, as well as to facilitate screening of older adults for cognitive problems in various healthcare settings.