Christopher Morrone

Background

About Christopher Morrone

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Brain Health Imaging Centre at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Lecturer at the University of Toronto. I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto in Neuroscience, Biology and Chemistry. I received my PhD in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Research Institute focused on cognitive resilience and therapeutic approaches for Alzheimer’s disease. This work was supported by my fellowships from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Ontario Graduate Scholarships. My postdoctoral research is centred on sleep as a modifiable risk factor for dementia and translational biomarkers including PET imaging and EEG. I have received prestigious fellowships from the BrightFocus Foundation, CIHR and the CAMH Discovery Fund supporting my postdoctoral work. My research and teaching goals are to explore brain-behaviour relationships in dementia, to further understand selective neuronal and regional vulnerabilities, and to identify new therapeutic approaches for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.