Assistant Professor
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Associate Member
Amanda (Amy) Boyle
Location
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Research Interests
Radiology & Imaging, Neurodegenerative Disorders, Animal Models, Autoimmune Disease, Brain, Cancer, Drug Development, Molecular & Cell Biology
Research Themes
Neuroscience, Brain Health
Accepting
MSc
Research Synopsis
Dr. Boyle is an independent scientist at CAMH specializing in PET imaging and radiopharmaceuticals. Her research focuses on identifying biomarkers that are common to oncology and neuroinflammatory/neurodegenerative diseases through PET imaging with a current focus on inflammatory biomarkers. Preclinical models include multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, tumor xenografts, neuroinflammation. The overall goal of Dr. Boyle’s work is to hasten the development of effective PET imaging agents for oncology by learning from neuroinflammation, and vice versa.