Parkinson Research Consortium
Awards
Fellowship awards
Every year the PRC, with the very generous support from individuals within our community, come together to support our scientists and clinicians in funding novel research projects and create fellowship awards and opportunities to support our young trainees fostering the next generation of researchers.
We would like to sincerely thank the following individuals, families and organizations for their very generous and continuous support:
2024 Fellowship Awardees
Shelby Hayter Fellowship (year 1 of 2)
Awarded to: Emma Green
Title: "Testing the Contribution of Gut-Expressed Alpha-Synuclein to the Pathogenesis of Parkinson’s Disease"
Mentor: Dr. Max Rousseaux
Larry Haffner Fellowship (year 1 of 2)
Awarded to: Nazia Hassan
Title: "Investigating a Redox-Protective Role of Parkin Downstream of Dopamine Stress in an In-Vitro Cell Model"
Mentor: Dr. Michael Schlossmacher
Bonnie & Don Poole Parkinson’s Research Fellowship
Awarded to: John Beninger
Title: "Optimizing Direct Cortical Electrical Stimulation for Treatment of Parkinson's"
Mentor: Dr. Richard Naud
Dave and Jill Hogg Family Fellowship
Awarded to: Zoe Ortiz
Title: "The Effects of Lrrk2 and Reovirus on the Development of PD in Males and Females."
Mentor: Dr. Natalina Salmaso
Francis Mathew Memorial Fellowship
Awarded to: Cassandra Hidalgo
Title: "Tracking Early Non-Motor and Later Motor Pathology using a Dual-Hit Genetic (LRRK2-G2019S) and Alpha-Synuclein (Fibril) Parkinson's Disease Model"
Mentor: Dr. Shawn Hayley and co-supervisor Dr. Paul Albert
The Michael Bell and family Foundation Fellowship
Awarded to: Jessica McNeill
Title: "Single Cell Transcriptomic Profiling of Substnatia Nigra and Ventral Tegmental Area of Human PD Patients and Controls"
Mentor: Dr. Natalina Salmaso
"Our ageing western societies will be faced with many more patients with Parkinson's over the coming decades. In many ways Parkinson's is both complicated and complex. I strongly believe that together we can solve the riddle. We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform neurological care by taking research to new heights in Ottawa and by building the technologically most advanced hospital for the citizens of Ottawa, for Ontarians and for the country."
Michael Schlossmacher, MD
Co-Director, Parkinson Research Consortium
Donors
We would like to sincerely thank the following individuals, families and organizations for their very generous and continuous support:
The Tallman Family
Shelby Hayter
Larry Haffner
Mara and Michael Arno
Bonnie and Don Poole
The Hogg Family
The Michael Bell and family Foundation Fellowship
Maplewishes Foundation: Avery and Rowan Parkinson
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
ScotiaMcleod Charitable Foundation