Cyrus A. Raji, MD, PhD is a tenured associate professor of radiology and neurology as well as 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. Dr. Raji additionally 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 and identifying traumatic brain injury.
Dr. 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 2016 RSNA Roentgen Resident Research award. Dr. Raji later completed a two-year neuroradiology fellowship at UCSF including an 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 Tom Slovis 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 an NIH KL2 Career Development Award Scholar. Raji is currently advancing his brain health research with NIH R01 grants to study neuroinflammation in midlife obesity as well as retinal nerve cell evaluations and their relationships with early amyloid deposition. He has published close to 100 peer-reviewed articles on advanced neuroimaging, including in traumatic brain injury and has been cited close to 6,000 times. Dr. Raji is also recognized as a 2024 Castle Connelly Top Doctor in Neuroradiology, MRI, and traumatic brain injury.
Research Areas
Traumatic brain injury, dementia
Link to Raji Brain Health Imaging Lab https://www.mir.wustl.edu/research/research-centers/neuroimaging-labs-research-center-nil-rc/labs/raji-lab/