Dr. Sarah Banks

Professor

Build a Statement of Purpose

Generate a tailored SOP for Dr. Sarah Banks. Improve your application with a focused, well-structured draft.

Biography

Sarah Banks is a distinguished professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego. She completed her Bachelor of Science with honors in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 2000. She then obtained her PhD in Clinical Psychology with a focus on Neuropsychology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 2007. Following her education, she pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University in Neuropsychology. Her research interests include biological lifestyle factors influencing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease among women, and she is the principal investigator on several NIH-funded projects exploring sex-specific cognitive expression and preclinical Alzheimer's disease. She has contributed substantially to the field through various publications and collaborative research efforts concerning cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor

2011-07-01 — Present

University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, CA

Teaching and conducting research in the field of Neurosciences, focusing on Alzheimer's disease and cognitive dysfunction.

Requirements for University of California, San Diego

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:85
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:120
Overall
Required:120
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in physical, biological, or earth sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Differential and integral calculus. One year of calculus-based physics with laboratory. One year of chemistry with laboratory.
Application Checklist
  • Statement of Purpose (max 2 pages)
  • Unofficial transcripts
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Application fee ($135 domestic / $155 international)
Specialization Notes

Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).