Dr. Amanda Boyle is an Independent Scientist with the Brain Health Imaging Centre and is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neurosciences and Clinical Translation at the University of Toronto. Dr. Boyle worked in the Pharmacy Department at the University of Toronto for 5 years in PET radiopharmaceutical development and preclinical oncology imaging prior to obtaining her PhD from the University of Toronto in Radiopharmaceutical Sciences from the Pharmacy Department. With over 10 years of PET imaging experience, Dr. Boyle joined the Brain Health Imaging Centre at CAMH for her post-doctoral training and then as an Independent Scientist, applying her knowledge of PET imaging oncology to the study of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Boyle’s general area of research includes PET imaging of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases to study the involvement of cell signaling pathways in the living body. Her work focuses on investigating new and developing radiotracers in different neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative disease models.