Neil Vasdev

Dr. Neil Vasdev

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Biography

Dr. Neil Vasdev is the Director and Chief Radiochemist of the Brain Health Imaging Centre at CAMH. He is also the inaugural Director of the Azrieli Centre for Neuro-Radiochemistry. He is the endowed Azrieli Chair in Brain and Behaviour, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Radiochemistry and Nuclear Medicine. In addition, he is a full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Prof. Vasdev started his radiochemistry and neuroimaging training while obtaining his Bachelor degrees (summa cum laude) in Chemistry and Psychology at McMaster University. He completed his Ph.D. dissertation in Chemistry while supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). He continued training with a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Functional Imaging at the E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. He began his independent faculty career in radiopharmaceutical sciences at CAMH/University of Toronto in 2004. From 2011 to 2017, he served as the Director of Radiochemistry and at the Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vasdev was elected as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2020), Royal Society of Chemistry (2020), and Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (2021) for his outstanding achievements and contributions to science, the profession and the societies.

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