Graduate Student 2017 thru 2023

Current: Postdoctoral Researcher, Physics for Medicine Paris, INSERM

Graduate Student

Current: Research Assistant, Vanderbilt University

Graduate Student 2017 thru 2022

Current: Research Fellow at Barrow Neurological Institute

Research Fellow Trainee

Current: Postdoctoral researcher

I'm interested in examining BOLD signals in white matter brain tissue using fMRI to validate its relationship to cortical neural activity.

Quantitative MRI, Mass Spectrometry Imaging,
Spinal Cord Injury Modeling, Machine Leaning and Computational Imaging. 

Quantitative MRI and MALDI MSI in spinal cord injury to understand injury progression, and recovery. 

I am a graduate student in the Biomedical Engineering Department, working under the mentorship of Dr. Does. Broadly I am interested in quantitative magnetic resonance imaging in the brain (qMRI), and using qMRI as a tool for investigating both preclinical and clinical questions.

My dissertation work is centered around elucidating the relationships between different qMRI metrics in white matter, as well as how changes in tissue microstructure influence each metric. 

Fatemeh Adelnia, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS). She earned her Ph.D. in Physics with a focus on nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy at the University of Milan. Dr. Adelnia completed her postdoctoral training in VUIIS under the mentorship of John Gore, Ph.D. She was awarded a four-year K25 Mentored Research Scientist Career Development grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and an Alzheimer's Disease Administrative Supplements grant and was promoted to Research Assistant Professor in 2022. 

Dr. Adelnia's research interest focuses on developing and validating novel noninvasive in vivo MRI and MRS biomarkers and their application in clinical studies to quantify the progression of diseases and characterize their underlying pathophysiology. Her current projects are i) Development and application of R1ρ dispersion imaging and 31P MR spectroscopy to quantify degenerative changes in skeletal muscle with aging. ii) Identify and validate the biological correlates of extracted R1ρ dispersion MR biomarkers in AD and normal aging brains, using animal models.