Scientific Advisory Council 

The Scientific Advisory Council (SAC) is a volunteer panel of experts which reviews funding applications to determine scientific excellence and relevance to Parkinson’s, providing the highest quality of objective adjudication. Each year, the SAC receives approximately 100 applications and dedicates more than $1 Million in new funding, providing the start for many new innovative ideas, yet leaving many more worthy ones unfunded. The next breakthrough could be in one of the unfunded applications. 

  • Dr. Louis-Éric Trudeau, Chair Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, University of Montreal; Director of the Neural Signaling and Circuitry (NCS) Research Group
  • Dr. Silke Appel-Cresswell – Associate Professor of Medicine/Neurology, University of British Columbia; Clinician Scientist, Pacific Parkinson’s Research Centre and Djavad Mowafghian Centre for Brain Health
  • Dr. Fang Ba – Associate Professor of Neurology and Director of the Parkinson and Movement Disorders Program, University of Alberta
  • Dr. Robert Chen – Professor of Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Krembil Research Institute
  • Dr. Ziv Gan-Or – Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Executive Director of the Clinical Research Unit, and Leader of the Neurodegenerative Disorders Research Group, Montreal Neurological Institute
  • Dr. Étienne Hébert-Chatelain – Associate Professor of Biology, Université de Moncton; Canada Research Chair in Mitochondrial Signalling and Physiopathology
  • Dr. Connie Marras – Professor of Neurology, University of Toronto; Clinician Scientist, Krembil Research Institute
  • Dr. Mario Masellis – Professor of Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto; Clinician Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute
  • Dr. Caroline Paquette – Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Physical Education and Director of the Human Brain Control of Locomotion Lab (HBCL), McGill University
  • Dr. Jean-François Trempe – Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Investigator at the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Program, McGill University
  • Dr. Joel Watts – Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Principal Investigator at the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto