Dr. Yasser Iturria-Medina is an early career Assistant Professor in the Montreal Neurological Institute (McGill). He is also an associate member of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, and the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (McGill). Iturria-Medina’s Lab – Neuroinformatics for Personalized Medicine – pursues primarily the goal of making precision medicine in Neurology a reality. It focuses on defining and implementing multiscale and multifactorial brain models for further understanding of neurological disorders from a multifactorial perspective and identifying effective personalized interventions. The lab combines molecular (e.g. gene expression), multimodal brain imaging and cognitive data using integrative mathematical/computational approaches to create both individual and population-based mechanistic brain models. These approaches underpin their work in precision medicine aimed at identifying individual brain signatures – personalized therapeutic fingerprints for the human brain. The January 2017 edition of Neurology Today and Discover Magazine ranked Dr Iturria-Medina’s 2016 research on Alzheimer’s disease among the 12-top scientific discovers of 2016. Being early career, Yasser has published to date 60 papers in highly rated journals, 14 as first author, constituting key references in scientific journals and books. Has also received a broad international scientific and media recognition as reflected by a large number of invited lectures and interviews, and, notably, has built an impressive number of productive collaborations at the national and international levels.
Please visit his lab website: http://www.neuropm-lab.com/
