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:
2025 Fellowship Awardees
Shelby Hayter Fellowship (year 2 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 2 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: Zeinab Hashemifard
Title: "Automated Tractography-Guided Localization of the Ventral Intermediate Nucleus for Precision Deep Brain Stimulation"
Mentor: Dr. Adam Sachs
Francis Mathew Memorial Fellowship
Awarded to: Karan Thakur
Title: "Exploring Parkinson’s-linked Lrrk2’s modulation of a nasally acquired
RNA virus infection"
Mentor: Dr. Michael Schlossmacher
The Michael Bell and family Foundation Fellowship
Awarded to: Kate Harris
Title: "Impact of an aSyn-binding aptamer on neuropathological and behavioural outcomes of
Parkinson’s disease"
Mentor: Dr. Matt Holahan
"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
Hayter Family
Haffner Family
Mara and Michael Arno
Bonnie and Don Poole
The Hogg Family
The Michael Bell and family Foundation Fellowship
Maplewishes Foundation: Avery and Rowan Parkinson
ScotiaMcleod Charitable Foundation
Brunet Family
Partners Investing in Parkinson's Research (PIPR) supporters
Smyth Family
Parkinson Outaouais