Cyrus Raji MD, PhD

Cyrus Raji, MD, PhD is an associate professor of radiology and a principal investigator in the Neuroimaging Labs Research Center at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR), the academic radiology department of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Raji, also a professor neurology, serves as director of neuromagnetic resonance imaging at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and as associate director of the diagnostic radiology residency research track. He is board certified in diagnostic radiology and neuroradiology with research interests focusing on modifiable risk factors for dementia and the role of advanced neuroimaging in quantitatively tracking related brain changes.

Raji graduated with a medical degree and doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, followed by a transitional internship at UPMC Mercy Hospital. Subsequently, he pursued a diagnostic radiology residency at UCLA, where he was awarded the RSNA Roentgen Resident Research award. Raji later completed a two-year neuroradiology fellowship at UCSF including a NIH T32 Program funded year on connectome imaging of traumatic brain imaging research. For this work, Raji was recognized by the Society of Pediatric Radiology for the Best Basic Science Paper in the journal Pediatric Radiology and received the faculty level ASNR Boerger Research Grant for Alzheimer’s Disease. Upon joining the faculty at MIR, he obtained the RSNA Research Scholar Grant and was a KL2 Career Development Award Scholar. Raji is currently advancing his brain health research with a $2.3 million dollar NIH R01 grant to study neuroinflammation in midlife obesity.