Former International Visiting Scholars
 | Dr. Arlette Haeger, MD Dr. Arlette Haeger, visiting scholar from Chile who arrived at the McGill University Research Centre for Studies in Aging, from July 2022 to June 2023. She evaluated new radiopharmaceuticals in PET for neurodegenerative diseases and evaluated their usefulness in the detection of TAU pathology & amyloid pathology in patients with major and minor cognitive impairment. |
 | Anna Foerges Pierling Ms Pierling, was a Graduate Research Trainee from Germany and a Mitacs Globalink Awardee who arrived at the McGill University Research Centre for Studies in Aging, from March 8 to July 28, 2023. Her research project focused on synaptic plasticity for a longitudinal PET study involving a marker for synaptic density. Experimental results will be analyzed and linked with research data from the McGill TRIAD cohort study. (Translational biomarkers in Aging and Dementia) |
 | Dr. Stijin Servaes, PhD Dr. Servaes, is a Graduate Research Trainee, joined the Transactional Neuroimaging Laboratory at McGill University Research Centre for Studies in Aging, McGill University, from Belgium who arrived in April 5 2023 to 2024. His research project focused on developing machine learning and deep learning algorithms for early diagnosis in AD. |
 | Dr. Takashi Matsudaira, MD, PhD Dr. Matsudaira is a visiting scholar from Japan. He arrived at the McGill University Research Centre for Studies in Aging in July 2023 to July 2024 and his project focuses on Positron Emission Tomography Study of the association with dementia and epilepsy including blood-biomarkers. He assisted with the introduction of a PET tracer used in Japan to evaluate mitochondrial function. |
 | Ana Paula Real Ms. Paula Real, from Brazil, joined the McGill University Research Centre for Studies in Aging, as a Graduate Research Trainee from August to September 2023 for observership to further knowledge in geriatrics and neurodegenerative diseases. Also, gained experience in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) neuroimaging techniques, such as PET Amyloid and PET Tau, using different radiotracers. |