Welcome to Vascular And Neurodegenerative Disorders of Aging (VANDA) Lab!
We are an interdisciplinary research group at the Cerebral Imaging Centre
of the Douglas Research Institute at
McGill University.
Our team investigates the role of cerebrovascular pathology in aging and neurodegenerative disease populations. Our research has three main components:
- Developing neuroimaging and machine learning tools to accurately detect and track signs of cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative pathologies
- Investigating the relationship between cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative pathologies, the impact of lifestyle and environmental factors on these diseases, and the impact of cerebrovascular pathology on clinical outcomes in neurodegenerative disease populations
- Ex-vivo assessment of cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative pathologies using post-mortem MRI and histology
Our work is supported by funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) , the Healthy Brains For Healthy Lives (HBHL),
the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC),
the Fonds de Recherché du Quebec-Santé (FRQS),
and Brain Canada.