Raag Dar Airan BS, MD, PhD

Raag Airan MD PhD is an Assistant Professor of Radiology and, by courtesy, of Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University. He is a clinical neuroradiologist and develops novel interventions for the nervous system using focused ultrasound and ultrasound-mediated drug delivery, with particular interest in noninvasive neuromodulation. He studied mathematics and physics as an undergraduate at MIT and then earned his MD and PhD in Bioengineering at Stanford University, where he worked with Karl Deisseroth to make some of the initial advances of optogenetics. He completed his clinical training at Johns Hopkins before returning to Stanford in 2016.