Congrats Brendan on receiving the Queen Elizabeth II/Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology!
Chloe gave an oral presentation at the iCAA conference in Banff (September 2026), showing that MRI-derived neuroinflammation is associated with co-morbid Alzheimer’s disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) pathology. Congrats Chloe!
Tony presented his poster at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026 in Malmö, exploring how self-supervised learning can be harnessed for segmentation in 3D microscopy with noisy labels and hard patches. Congrats Tony!
Congrats Kashaf on receiving the T-CAIREM Summer Scholarship! She will be working on developing personalized AI models to predict brain effective connectivity in Alzheimer’s disease resilience.
Congratulations Dr. Ahmadreza Attarpour on successfully defending his PhD! Ahmadreza’s doctoral work developed deep learning pipelines for 3D brain-wide mapping of local neuronal ensembles in teravoxel light-sheet microscopy, including whole-brain connectome profiling at single-axon resolution. We are so proud of you, Dr. Attarpour!
Tony presented his poster at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025 in Honolulu, introducing ModalTune, a method for fine-tuning slide-level foundation models with multi-modal information for multi-task learning in digital pathology. Congrats Tony!
Congrats Brendan on receiving the Medical Biophysics Excellence Award!
Congrats Brendan on receiving the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)!
Tony participated in the SELMA3D 2025 challenge at MICCAI 2025, continuing his work on self-supervised learning for 3D light-sheet microscopy image segmentation. Congrats Tony!
Tony participated in the FLARE 2025 challenge at MICCAI 2025, presenting his work on self-distillation representation learning and parameter-efficient fine-tuning for pretrained models in multimodal 3D medical imaging. Congrats Tony!
Katrina presented her poster at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2025 in Toronto, identifying multimodal amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration (ATN) subtypes in Alzheimer’s disease across datasets and imaging markers. Congrats Katrina!
Jazlynn presented her poster at the Japan Neuroscience Society 2025 annual meeting, investigating how hyperexcitability and aberrant connectivity underlie attention deficits following traumatic brain injury. Congrats Jazlynn!
Jazlynn presented her poster at BRAIN & BRAIN PET 2025, showing that persistent dysfunctional connectivity between visual and memory brain networks underlies attention deficits following traumatic brain injury. Congrats Jazlynn!
Ahmadreza presented his work at the IGT x ImNO Joint Symposium in Toronto (March 2025), showcasing a deep learning pipeline for 3D brain-wide mapping of local neuronal ensembles. Congrats Ahmadreza!
Dr. Peter Kang presented his poster at HAI 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, using graph convolutional networks to predict cognitive decline at the individual level in Alzheimer’s disease. Congrats Peter!
Dr. Ottoy presented her poster at the Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) 2025 conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, uncovering distinct spatiotemporal patterns of vascular disease across Alzheimer’s disease subtypes. Congrats Julie!
Congratulations Tony on being awarded the 2024 Google PhD Fellowship! This highly competitive recognition will support his innovative research in self-supervised learning, empowering him to address key challenges in analysing large and multidimensional medical images.
Tony participated in the SELMA3D challenge at MICCAI 2024, tackling self-supervised learning for 3D light-sheet microscopy image segmentation. Congrats Tony!
Ahmadreza presented his poster at the 2024 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference in Chicago, US, showcasing an end-to-end deep learning pipeline for 3D mapping of laminar neuronal activity in light sheet data. Congrats Ahmadreza!
Congrats Katrina on receiving the Medical Biophysics Excellence Award!
Dr. Ottoy has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Alzheimer’s Association Research Fellowship (AARF). This funding will support her groundbreaking study on the dynamic interplay between vascular injury and inflammation in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Learn more →
Congrats Tony on receiving the NSERC PGS-D award!
Congrats to Dr. Julie Ottoy for being awarded a fellowship from BrightFocus. Dr. Ottoy’s project will investigate how brain inflammation and vascular injury play a role in Alzheimer’s disease progression using advanced biomarker studies.
Dr. Ottoy delivered an invited keynote at the Alzheimer’s Imaging Consortium (AIC) in Philadelphia (July 27), speaking on the current state of neuroimaging in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. Congrats Julie!
Congratulations Matt for winning the VAST Graduate Student Award! His research explores how Traumatic Brain Injury impacts sensory processing and memory by examining cerebrovascular dysfunction using advanced imaging and deep learning.
Dr. Ottoy presented her work at OHBM in Seoul (June) and AAIC in Philadelphia (July), examining how white matter inflammation relates to core Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiological processes. Congrats Julie!
Jazlynn presented her poster at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2024 conference in Seoul, South Korea, investigating stepwise connectivity patterns along the gradients of brain organization in Alzheimer’s disease. Congrats Jazlynn!
Dr. Ottoy gave an oral presentation at the Vascular Training Platform (VAST) conference in Banff, Canada (May 30), showing that free water levels in normal-appearing white matter can predict vascular lesion progression in individuals with dementia. Congrats Julie!
Lyndon presented his talk at the Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation (CNSF) Congress in Toronto (May 26), exploring optimal targeting in MR-guided focused ultrasound capsulotomy for treatment-resistant OCD and MDD using probabilistic lesion mapping. Congrats Lyndon!
Amin presented his poster at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting in Denver, CO (Apr 13–18), looking at how hippocampal and regional brain volumes relate to retinal OCT imaging across the aging–MCI–AD continuum. Congrats Amin!
Congrats Dr. Goubran on receiving the Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute Visiting Scholar Award from Stanford! He hosted the MIRACL workshop and gave a talk at the Radiological Sciences Lab Seminar at the Department of Radiology.
Dr. Goubran, in collaboration with Drs. Stefanovic (UofT), McLaurin (UofT), and Hyder (Yale), have been awarded the NIH R01 grant for “Imaging the effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation in an experimental model of Alzheimer’s Disease.” This research explores how tACS influences neuronal oscillations and working memory in AD models.
Dr. Ottoy presented her poster at HAI 2024 in Miami (Jan 17), showing how tau propagates along the principal axes of functional and structural brain organization in Alzheimer’s disease. Congrats Julie!
Dr. Peter Kang presented his work at HAI 2024 in Miami (Jan 17–19), exploring how regional cell-type proportions relate to AD pathological changes. Congrats Peter!
Ahmadreza will present at the 2023 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference in Washington, DC. Congrats!
Congratulations to Dr. Maged Goubran, co-investigators Dr. Jennifer Rabin, Dr. Julie Ottoy, and Dr. Peter Kang, on receiving the CIHR Spring 2023 Project Grant. The project will use advanced brain imaging and AI to unravel the relationship between brain connectivity, tau spread, and cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease.
Congrats Lyndon and Grace on receiving the T-CAIREM 2023 summer studentship!
Congrats Peter on receiving the CIHR fellowship and ASRP Postdoctoral Award!
Julie’s work will be presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference. Congrats!
Congrats Katrina on receiving the NSERC CGS-M award!
Julie and Peter presented at the 2023 Human Amyloid Imaging Conference in Miami, FL. Congrats!
Congrats Maged for being named a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Neuroscience!
Congrats Ahmadreza and Matt for receiving Vascular Training (VAST) graduate scholarships!
Congrats Jazlynn on receiving the National Science Scholarship (PhD) from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore!
Congrats Tony for receiving the CGS-M award!
Congrats Maged for receiving a new investigator grant from the Alzheimer Society Research Program!
Congrats Julie for receiving a merit award for an exceptional abstract submitted to the OHBM conference 2022!
Julie’s work will be presented at OHBM and AD/PD international conferences. Congrats!
Congrats Ahmadreza for receiving an MBP international PhD award!
Congrats Julie for receiving the Alzheimer Association Fellowship!
Congrats to Amin for receiving a CIHR PhD award!
Congrats Matt and Lyndon for receiving OGS awards!
CIHR project grant with Drs. Bojana Stefanovic and JoAnne McLaurin funded!
Congrats to Lyndon for receiving a NSERC MSc award!
NSERC discovery grant funded!
Congrats Amin for receiving the Vision Science Research Scholarship!
Our publication was among the top 10% most downloaded papers in Human Brain Mapping in 2020. Congrats!
Congrats Maged for receiving the Donald Stuss Young Investigator innovation award!
Our publication was featured by editors of Nature Communications. Congrats!
Congrats Maged for receiving the Heffernan New Investigator Award!