Venkataraman Lab
Principal Investigator: Archana Venkataraman
Institution: Boston University (Boston, MA)
Primary Subfield: Neuroscience
Recruitment Status: ✅ Hiring Postdocs
Research Focus
Project Summary/Abstract Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can be viewed through three complementary lenses: neurologically, it is linked to distributed changes in brain structure, function, and connectivity; biologically, it is associated with genome-wide mutations across multiple pathways; and clinically, it manifests as a diverse spectrum of behavioral and cogni- tive impairments. Despite this richness, treatment options for ASD are based on coarse diagnostics and target a few specific symptoms, such as social awareness, irritability, and depression. As a result, they have varied, and often limited, efficacy across patients. Taken together, next-generation therapeutics for ASD will crucially depend on our ability to bridge its neurological, biological, and clinical viewpoints for personalized intervention. Imaging-genetics is an emerging field that attempts to link neuroimaging features with genetic variants. How- ever, most methods focus on a restricted set of biomarkers, and they do not account for clinical phenotype, both of which provide an incomplete picture of the impacted processes. Our long-term goal is to develop a modu- lar platform that fuses multimodal neuroimaging and mul…
Active NIH Awards
- 5R01HD108790-04: A Modular Framework for Data-Driven Neurogenetics to Predict Complex and Multidimensional Autistic Phenotypes (2026)
- 5R01DC022565-02: Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Post-Stroke Aphasia and Language Recovery (2026)
- 1R01DC022565-01A1: Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Post-Stroke Aphasia and Language Recovery (2025)
- 5R01HD108790-03: A Modular Framework for Data-Driven Neurogenetics to Predict Complex and Multidimensional Autistic Phenotypes (2025)
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