Basic and translational research on Brain, Environmental factors and exposure leading to neurological diseases, Biomarkers discovery, Technology development, Bioimaging, Computational model development, and Research operations and leadership.
Dr. Sara Sameni is a Health Program Specialist in the Office of Neural Exposome and Toxicology Research (ONETOX).
Dr. Sameni joined NINDS Small Business Program in 2023. Prior to that she has completed her postdoctoral studies in Terry Sejnowski's lab at the Salk institute for biological studies focused on developing new computational models to understand the key mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity as well as investigating the impact of cellular atrophy in the cell signaling pathway in neurological disorders and aging. Sara completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical engineering at UC Irvine, where she focused on advanced optical imaging and discovering multiple biomarkers at the cellular and molecular level for Huntington disease and other neurological disorders.