About me
Dr. Salimi is a translational physician-scientist in Dr. Daniel Raftery’s lab and a K01 award grantee from the National Institute on Aging. Her research focuses on biological aging as an underlying mechanism of chronic diseases, employing omics tools, cell cultures, and animal models to validate findings from human aging studies. Dr. Salimi works on the development of health algorithms across species to capture aging processes, including PathoClock, PathoAge, PhysioClock, and PhysioAge in rodent models, as well as the Human Health Octo Tool (HOT) to assess human health. She chose the University of Washington to further her research in aging using “omics” approaches and to benefit from the contributions to understanding mechanisms of aging achieved by the Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging, the Northwest Metabolomics Research Center and the Mitochondria and Metabolism Center. Dr. Salimi aspires to make significant contributions to population health and health equity by translating scientific discoveries from the bench to real-world human health applications.
Dr. Salimi completed her postdoctoral fellowship and training at the University of Maryland and served as a Special Volunteer at the National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program. She decided to move to Seattle after attending statistical genetics workshops at UW’s Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics.