Parkinson Research Consortium

Our Team

We benefit from the expertise and efforts of the following group of elite researchers:

David Park, PhD - an expert in neuronal death using mouse models of Parkinson's disease

David Grimes, M.D., FRCPC - neurologist, specializing in Parkinson's disease and biomarker analysis

Michael Schlossmacher, M.D., FRCPC - neurologist, specializing in Parkinson's disease and biomarker analysis

Paul Albert, PhD - an expert in dopamine signaling within the brain

Steffany Bennett, PhD - lipid biochemist, cell biologist, and systems neuroscientist studying neurodegeneration and neuroregeneration

Dennis Bulman, PhD - geneticist, an expert at the identification of human disease genes

Antonio Colavita, PhD - molecular biologist and an expert in C. elegans worm genetics and development

Mark Ekker, PhD - internationally renowned developmental biologist who uses zebra fish as a model to study cell death mechanisms

Heidi McBride, PhD – scientist examining the molecular machinery that governs mitochondrial dynamics

Tilak Mendis, M.D., FRCPC - neurologist with expertise in cognitive dementia who performs clinical research in neurodegenerative disease

Johnny Ngsee, PhD - expert in the processes that determine information traffic among brain cells

Robin Parks, PhD - scientist with research expertise in gene therapy using viruses

Robert Screaton, PhD - scientist working to identify the molecular machinery used by cells to respond to extracellular cues.

Ruth Slack, PhD - expert in stem cell biology and neuronal death

Mario Tiberi, PhD - scientist exploring how dopamine signaling works in the brain

Vance Trudeau, PhD - expert in biology

John Woulfe, M.D., FRCPC, PhD - neuropathologist, exploring why abnormal inclusions form within dying brain cells

Tohru Kitada, M.D., PhD - senior clinical and research fellow, world-renowned scientist who identified PARKIN, the first autosomal-recessive Parkinson’s disease gene