Rahul Desikan

He was an Assistant Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Neurology and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco,[1] and co-director of Laboratory for Precision Neuroimaging.

[2][3] Desikan's achievements became publicly known in a Washington Post article detailing his lifelong commitment to preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease and his continuing work as a scientist living with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

He completed postdoctoral fellowships in Neuroimaging with Bruce Fischl at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and Neurogenetics with Anders Dale at UCSD.

[10] Using 'big data' acquired through ongoing global collaborations, he innovated a variety of cross disciplinary methods to identify novel risk factors for brain diseases.

[12][13] 3) Development of the polygenic hazard score (PHS)[14][15] for predicting Alzheimer's disease age of onset, in collaboration with Chun Chieh Fan and Anders Dale.

Rahul Desikan in 2018.
The Desikan-Killiany Atlas (Desikan et al., 2006) is a 35 area cortical atlas that is based on gyral morphology .
Regions of the Desikan-Killiany atlas. [ 11 ]
Polygenic hazard score (PHS) for predicting Alzheimer's disease age of onset.