Our Team
Director / Principal Investigator
Dr. Amanpreet Badhwar is an Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, and a Principal Investigator at the Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM). She is a member of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA). She is also actively engaged in several committees of the International Organization for Human Brain Mapping.
From the undergraduate to postdoctoral level, Dr. Badhwar’s path has been to study neurological disease by combining different data types, starting with small-scale genetics and brain imaging early in her career, and progressively moving to “big data” in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Dr. Badhwar’s multi-institutional PhD work under the supervision of Professor Edith Hamel at McGill University combined the themes of multimodal research (neuroimaging, proteomics, and measures of neurovascular coupling), to tease apart the contributions of neuronal and cerebrovascular damage on cognitive dysfunction in AD, and the impact of drug treatment on these components.
Elements of Dr. Badhwar’s postdoctoral work sought to characterize the heterogeneity in AD cohorts using resting-state functional MRI connectivity, an emerging biomarker of synaptic or network dysfunction in AD. These investigations contributed to the understanding of connectivity measures in AD from three different perspectives: group-level connectivity, connectivity subtypes, and individual connectivity fingerprint.
Another important aspect of Dr. Badhwar’s postdoctoral work was focused on establishing a biomarker roadmap for the Canadian Consortium for Neurodegeneration in Aging, where she and her colleagues proposed an analytic framework for generating multiomics biomarkers from imaging, genomics, metabolomics and other modalities.
Dr. Badhwar has held several prestigious scholarships over the years, and was recently awarded the Chercheur-boursier Junior 1 from the Fonds de recherche du Québec.
Current Members
- Flavie Detcheverry, Doctoral Student
- Manpreet Singh, Doctoral Student
- Zainab Mianoor, Master's student
- Ikrame Housni, Master's student
- Marie Biard, Medical Student Intern
- Usman Saeed, Doctoral student (Primary supervisor: Dr. M. Masellis)
Alumni Members
- Diana Ioana Abalasei, Undergraduate Intern
- Natasha Clarke, Postdoctoral Fellow
- Jennifer Robert, Dawson College Intern
- Seungyeon Lee, Dawson College Intern
- Sabrina Loudjani, Undergraduate Intern
- Steven Jia, Undergraduate Intern
- Preslava Aleksieva, Dawson College Intern
- Brandon Levine, Dawson College Intern
Join the team
We are actively recruiting new team members.
Collaborations
Active or Long-term Collaborators
Antonio Nanci, Université de Montréal, Montréal
Arsalan Haqqani, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa
Danica Stanimirovic, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa
Danilo Bzdok, McGill University, Montréal
David Rudko, Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal
Edith Hamel, Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal
Howard Chertkow, Baycrest Health Sciences and the Rotman Research Institute, Toronto
Jamie Near, Douglas Hospital Research Centre, McGill University, Montréal
Louis Collins, Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal
Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa
Natasha Rajah, Douglas Hospital Research Centre, McGill University, Montréal
Pedro Rosa-Neto, Douglas Hospital Research Centre, McGill University, Montréal
Pierre Bellec, CRIUGM, Université de Montréal, Montréal
Pierre Haddad, Université de Montréal, Montréal
Ravi Rungta, Université de Montréal, Montréal
Roger Dixon, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Simon Duchesne, Université Laval, Quebec City
Simona Brambati, CRIUGM, Université de Montréal, Montréal
Serge Gauthier, Douglas Hospital Research Centre, McGill University, Montréal
Sridar Narayanan, Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal
Steffany Bennet, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Athina Tzovara, University of Bern, Switzerland
Dan Lloyd, Trinity College, USA
Daniel Margulies, Institut de Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière-Paris, France
Felix Hoffstaedter, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Hien Nguyen, La Trobe University, Australia
Lucina Uddin, University of Miami, USA
Thomas Hinault, Inserm, France