Research supported through Porridge for Parkinson’s Toronto events
Fund a Fellow
Dr. Lang: “[fellows are] the future of our field, they’re the future of the care we provide, and they’re the future of the research.”
UHN PD Research Facilities
Check out Dr. Fasano’s video explainer on CRANIA’s new gait analysis lab and how it is uses immersive lab technology to help patients with Parkinson’s disease.
2019 Fellowships
Dr. Daniel Garbin Di Luca and Dr. Diana Olszewska | Toronto Western Hospital Movement Disorders Fellowships.
2017 Pilot Project Grant
Dr. Simon Wing | Establishing a new link between brain and body.
2017 Graduate Student Award
Cricia Rinchon | Investigation of abnormal neuroplasticity in movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.
2017 Graduate Student Award
Dr. Alexandre Boutet | Demystifying neuromodulation of dysfunctional brain circuits in Parkinson’s disease patients with deep brain stimulation using high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging.
2017 Graduate Student Award
Dr. Anita Senthinathan, née Abeyesekera | Study of hypophonia, the soft speech that is often a characteristic of Parkinson’s disease.
2015 Graduate Student Award
Dr. Chelsia Kadgien | The role of VPS35 in transporting proteins that help brain cells communicate.
2015-2017 Graduate Student Award
Ms Sarah Coakeley | Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of Pathological Tau in Parkinsonisms.
2015-2017 Fellowship Award
Dr. Natasha Radhu | Interactions between motor cortical inhibitory and excitatory circuits.
2015 Pilot Project Grant
Dr. Jonathan Brotchie | Evaluation of chloroquine as a disease modifying treatment for Parkinson’s disease.
2015 Pilot Project Grant
Dr. Bradley MacIntosh | Biomarkers of Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s disease.
2013 Graduate Student Award
Dr. Jean-Francois Daneault | Subthalamic deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease: Effect on the mobility of patients and their caregiver
2013 Pilot Project Grant
Dr. Mark Carpenter | A novel fMRI approach to investigating the pathophysiology of postural instability in Parkinson’s disease.
2013 Graduate Student Award
Dr. Karl Grenier | interaction between PINK1 and the Mitochondrial Processing Peptidase: Defining the role of Mitochondrial import defects in Parkinson’s Disease.
2011 Pilot Project Grant
Dr. Abbas Sadikot | Creation of a Novel Computerized MRI-Integrated 3-D Histochemical Atlas of Parkinson’s Disease Brain.
2011 Pilot Project Grant
Dr. Edward Fon | Regulation of Parkin function by deubiquitination.
2009 Pilot Project Grant
Dr. Michael Schlossmacher | Characterization and validation of pharmacologically-driven signaling pathways to lower alpha-synuclein:
Implications for Parkinson.