Research supported through Porridge for Parkinson’s Toronto events
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.