Tanisha Mehta

Biography:

Tanisha Mehta is a second-year undergraduate student at University of California, Berkeley studying Molecular and Cell Biology. She conducts research in the Rankin Lab at the University of California, San Francisco, where she helps develop and evaluate quantitative tools to assess socioemotional dysfunction in dementia, including the FRAMES battery. Her work focuses on improving the measurement and detection of socioemotional deficits to support more accurate diagnosis. She is broadly interested in the intersection of neuroscience and clinical medicine and aims to pursue a career as a physician–scientist.