Peter Zhukovsky

Dr. Peter Zhukovsky is a scientist with the Brain Health Imaging Centre, and the Krembil Center for Neuroinformatics (KCNI) at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). 

He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, in Psychology. After completing his degree, he moved to Toronto where he did his first postdoc at CAMH (with Dr. Voineskos) on a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship with work focused on transdiagnostic mechanisms of psychopathology in mood and anxiety disorders, investigating the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders and their links to neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. Using multi-scale imaging-genetics methods in his work at CAMH, Dr. Zhukovsky uncovered novel, robust brain-cognition associations in late-life depression and prodromal Alzheimer’s disease.

In a second postdoctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital (Harvard Medical School, with Dr Pizzagalli), Dr Zhukovsky has expanded his use of imaging-genetics methods in transdiagnostic investigations of the stress mechanisms in major depression. He also helped lead a prospective biomarker-guided clinical trial of major depression and has since led investigations into robust and generalizable biomarkers predicting treatment response in major depression. His work has been funded by NIH and CIHR.

Grants:

Co-Investigator on an NIH grant and a CIHR grant.

Recent Publications: