Rory Boyle
Job title
Postdoctoral Researcher
Organisation
Trinity College Dublin
Broad research area
Clinical Research
Population, Social and Connected Health Research
Research interests
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Penn Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) Center in the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. My research is focused on understanding why some people are more resilient to neurodegenerative disease.
I completed my PhD in Trinity College Dublin, under the supervision of Dr. Robert Whelan, in Trinity College Dublin where I applied data science and machine learning to neuroimaging to better understand cognitive reserve and resilience (i.e. why some people show better-than-expected cognitive function despite similar levels of disease or neurodegeneration).
After my PhD, I moved to Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston where I developed longitudinal models of resilience to Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers and investigated the role of key brain networks in resilience to Alzheimer's disease.
Since moving to the Penn FTD Center, I am working on projects that aim to understand how structural and social determinants of health (such as neighborhood deprivation and occupational exposures) affect resilience and vulnerability to neurodegenerative disease, specifically behavioral-variant FTD and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
I completed my PhD in Trinity College Dublin, under the supervision of Dr. Robert Whelan, in Trinity College Dublin where I applied data science and machine learning to neuroimaging to better understand cognitive reserve and resilience (i.e. why some people show better-than-expected cognitive function despite similar levels of disease or neurodegeneration).
After my PhD, I moved to Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston where I developed longitudinal models of resilience to Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers and investigated the role of key brain networks in resilience to Alzheimer's disease.
Since moving to the Penn FTD Center, I am working on projects that aim to understand how structural and social determinants of health (such as neighborhood deprivation and occupational exposures) affect resilience and vulnerability to neurodegenerative disease, specifically behavioral-variant FTD and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.