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Junchao Tong
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Latest papers
Autoradiography and preclinical PET studies with radiolabeled asyn-44 and ACI-12589 for imaging α-synuclein.
Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2026
Imaging Monoacylglycerol Lipase A First-in-Human Positron Emission Tomography Study with [18F]MAGL-2102
Research Square · 2026
Astrocyte alterations and dysfunction in alcohol use disorder: A comprehensive scoping review of clinical postmortem and preclinical evidence.
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2025
Latest funding
- $921,826
The role of the endocannabinoid 2AG in high dopamine states: implications of pharmacological manipulation
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $1,059,524
Investigating endocannabinoid signaling in relapse to alcohol drinking: neuroimaging studies of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase in alcohol use disorder
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
112 publications.
Autoradiography and preclinical PET studies with radiolabeled asyn-44 and ACI-12589 for imaging α-synuclein.
Varlow C, Pees A, Stehouwer JS, Grotegerd AK, Bleher D, Guarino DS, Lindberg A, Tong J, Lopresti BJ, Knight AC, Zabrocki M, Nasser A, Shalgunov V, Ferri E, Cannazza G, McQuade P, Mathis CA, Mach RH, Battisti UM, Herfert K, Herth MM, Knudsen GM, Vasdev N
Imaging Monoacylglycerol Lipase A First-in-Human Positron Emission Tomography Study with [18F]MAGL-2102
Bertina Jebanesan, Lucas Narciso, Nikta Zarif Yussefian, Emily Murrell, Kimberly L. Desmond, Sang Soo Cho, Jerry Warsh, Bernard Le Foll, Jeffrey H. Meyer, Junchao Tong, Jian Rong, Yinlong Li, Steven H. Liang, Neil Vasdev, Isabelle Boileau
Astrocyte alterations and dysfunction in alcohol use disorder: A comprehensive scoping review of clinical postmortem and preclinical evidence.
Nadler E, Kish SJ, Tong J, Lê AD, Boileau I
Radiosynthesis, In Vitro Characterization, and In Vivo PET Neuroimaging of [18F]F-4 for Tau Protein: A First-in-Human PET Study.
Lindberg A, Tong J, Zheng C, Mueller A, Kroth H, Stephens A, Mathis CA, Vasdev N
Sex- and age-specific sensitivities of the endocannabinoid system in Alzheimer's disease revealed by PET imaging with [18F]FMPEP-d 2 and [18F]MAGL-2102.
Pees A, Morrone CD, Tong J, Rong J, Shao T, Wear D, Liang SH, Yu WH, Vasdev N
PET Imaging of Synaptic Density Loss in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
Chao Zheng, Pou Hong Justin Chia, Takuya Toyonaga, Junchao Tong, Hannah Le, Mark Dias, Amanda J. Boyle, Roger Raymond, Erin E. Longbrake, Yiyun Huang, Richard E. Carson, Laura M. Airas, Neil Vasdev, Mingkai Chen
Synthesis, Radiosynthesis, in Vitro and in Vivo Evaluation of the GABAA-Benzodiazepine Receptor Agonist [11C]RO6899880.
d'Orchymont F, Tong J, Vasdev N
Structure-based optimization and binding assays for discovery of tau PET radiotracers: synthesis and in vivo evaluation of [ 11 C]Z-3272
Faustine d'Orychymont, Junchao Tong, Anat Levit Kaplan, Brian K. Shoichet, Chester A. Mathis, Jeff Stehouwer, Neil Vasdev
Ligand-Based Design, Radiosynthesis and Preclinical Imaging of 11C- and 18F-Labeled Radiotracers for Imaging Activin Receptor-Like Kinase 2
Melissa Chasse, Junchao Tong, Emily Murrell, Neil Vasdev
Ligand-based design of [18F]OXD-2314 for PET imaging in non-Alzheimer's disease tauopathies.
Lindberg A, Murrell E, Tong J, Mason NS, Sohn D, Sandell J, Ström P, Stehouwer JS, Lopresti BJ, Viklund J, Svensson S, Mathis CA, Vasdev N
The role of the endocannabinoid 2AG in high dopamine states: implications of pharmacological manipulation
Principal investigators: Ross, Ruth A
Keywords: Cannabinoid; Dopamine; Pharmacology
Investigating endocannabinoid signaling in relapse to alcohol drinking: neuroimaging studies of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase in alcohol use disorder
Principal investigators: Boileau, Isabelle
Keywords: Alcohol Use Disorder; Biomarker; Endocannabinoid; Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase; Relapse
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Pablo Rusjan and Sylvain Houle: 146 shared papers
- Jeffrey Meyer and Sylvain Houle: 85 shared papers
- Isabelle Boileau and Sylvain Houle: 62 shared papers
- Jeffrey Meyer and Pablo Rusjan: 59 shared papers
- Bernard Le Foll and Patricia Di Ciano: 57 shared papers
- Pablo Rusjan and Isabelle Boileau: 55 shared papers
- Isabelle Boileau and Junchao Tong: 55 shared papers
- Neil Vasdev and Sylvain Houle: 53 shared papers
- Antonio Strafella and Sylvain Houle: 46 shared papers
- Bernard Le Foll and Isabelle Boileau: 43 shared papers
- Junchao Tong and Sylvain Houle: 40 shared papers
- Neil Vasdev and Junchao Tong: 37 shared papers
- Rachel Tyndale and Isabelle Boileau: 33 shared papers
- Rachel Tyndale and Tony George: 33 shared papers
- Bernard Le Foll and Tony George: 31 shared papers
- Jeffrey Meyer and Neil Vasdev: 30 shared papers
- Antonio Strafella and Pablo Rusjan: 29 shared papers
- Bernard Le Foll and Rachel Tyndale: 28 shared papers
- Bernard Le Foll and Christian Hendershot: 24 shared papers
- Bernard Le Foll and Peter Selby: 24 shared papers
- Pablo Rusjan and Junchao Tong: 23 shared papers
- Jeffrey Meyer and Junchao Tong: 16 shared papers
- Isabelle Boileau and Patricia Di Ciano: 16 shared papers
- Christian Hendershot and Rachel Tyndale: 15 shared papers
- Christian Hendershot and Isabelle Boileau: 15 shared papers
- Rachel Tyndale and Junchao Tong: 12 shared papers
- Bernard Le Foll and Junchao Tong: 11 shared papers
- Peter Selby and Tony George: 11 shared papers
- Rachel Tyndale and Peter Selby: 10 shared papers
- Neil Vasdev and Justin Hicks: 10 shared papers
- Isabelle Boileau and Jerry Warsh: 10 shared papers
- Antonio Strafella and Isabelle Boileau: 8 shared papers
- Neil Vasdev and Chao Zheng: 8 shared papers
- Justin Hicks and Sylvain Houle: 7 shared papers
- Bernard Le Foll and Vincenzo De Luca: 6 shared papers
- Jeffrey Meyer and Jerry Warsh: 6 shared papers
- Christian Hendershot and Junchao Tong: 6 shared papers
- Richard Bazinet and Rachel Tyndale: 6 shared papers
- Richard Bazinet and Isabelle Boileau: 6 shared papers
- Richard Bazinet and Sylvain Houle: 6 shared papers
- Pablo Rusjan and Christin Schifani: 6 shared papers
- Patricia Di Ciano and Tony George: 6 shared papers
- Christin Schifani and Sylvain Houle: 6 shared papers
- Sofia Chavez and Vincenzo De Luca: 6 shared papers
- Richard Bazinet and Junchao Tong: 5 shared papers
- Rachel Tyndale and Matthew Hill: 5 shared papers
- Peter Selby and Junchao Tong: 5 shared papers
- Matthew Hill and Isabelle Boileau: 5 shared papers
- Matthew Hill and Junchao Tong: 5 shared papers
- Pablo Rusjan and Jerry Warsh: 5 shared papers
- Jerry Warsh and Junchao Tong: 5 shared papers
- Julie Richardson and Isabelle Boileau: 4 shared papers
- Bernard Le Foll and Sofia Chavez: 4 shared papers
- Antonio Strafella and Junchao Tong: 4 shared papers
- Pablo Rusjan and Arian Behzadi: 4 shared papers
- Isabelle Boileau and Sofia Chavez: 4 shared papers
- Patricia Di Ciano and Junchao Tong: 4 shared papers
- Justin Hicks and Junchao Tong: 4 shared papers
- Arian Behzadi and Sylvain Houle: 4 shared papers
- Julie Richardson and Junchao Tong: 3 shared papers
- Jeffrey Meyer and Michael Hutchison: 3 shared papers
- Michael Hutchison and Isabelle Boileau: 3 shared papers
- Michael Hutchison and Junchao Tong: 3 shared papers
- Fang Liu and Neil Vasdev: 3 shared papers
- Fang Liu and Junchao Tong: 3 shared papers
- Pablo Rusjan and Vincenzo De Luca: 3 shared papers
- Neil Vasdev and Christin Schifani: 3 shared papers
- Isabelle Boileau and Arian Behzadi: 3 shared papers
- Christin Schifani and Junchao Tong: 3 shared papers
- Tony George and Junchao Tong: 3 shared papers
- Sofia Chavez and Junchao Tong: 3 shared papers
- Junchao Tong and Vincenzo De Luca: 3 shared papers
- Julie Richardson and Rachel Tyndale: 2 shared papers
- Chao Zheng and Junchao Tong: 2 shared papers
- Arian Behzadi and Junchao Tong: 2 shared papers
- Bernard Le Foll and Fang Liu: 1 shared paper
- Department of Psychiatry
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Department of Family & Community Medicine
- Cumming School of Medicine
- Department of Nutritional Sciences
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Medical Biophysics
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Isabelle Boileau
Department of Psychiatry
55 shared papers, latest 2026
Sylvain Houle
Department of Psychiatry
40 shared papers, latest 2023
Neil Vasdev
Department of Psychiatry
37 shared papers, latest 2026
Pablo Rusjan
Department of Psychiatry
23 shared papers, latest 2021
Jeffrey Meyer
Department of Psychiatry
16 shared papers, latest 2026
Romina Mizrahi
Positron, Emission Tomography (PET Centre)
13 shared papers, latest 2021
Rachel Tyndale
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
12 shared papers, latest 2023
Bernard Le Foll
Department of Family & Community Medicine
11 shared papers, latest 2023
Christian Hendershot
Faculty
6 shared papers, latest 2020
Matthew Hill
Cumming School of Medicine
5 shared papers, latest 2021
Jerry Warsh
Department of Psychiatry
5 shared papers, latest 2023
Richard Bazinet
Department of Nutritional Sciences
5 shared papers, latest 2023
Peter Selby
Department of Family & Community Medicine
5 shared papers, latest 2014
Antonio Strafella
Department of Medicine
4 shared papers, latest 2023
Patricia Di Ciano
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
4 shared papers, latest 2020
Justin Hicks
Department of Medical Biophysics
4 shared papers, latest 2014
Vincenzo De Luca
Department of Psychiatry
3 shared papers, latest 2020
Michael Hutchison
Neurosciences
3 shared papers, latest 2023
Julie Richardson
Rehabilitation Science
3 shared papers, latest 2023
Fang Liu
Department of Psychiatry
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Christin Schifani
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2022
Tony George
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2023
Colin Shapiro
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Emily Murrell
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2024
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