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Drugs that pass the iPSC Organoid Core reaches the TRIDENT Mouse Core.  Distributed at two renowned Canadian institutions, Western  University and the University of Toronto.  The Mouse Core is being established to create improved humanized models of neurodegenerative diseases and to establish clinically relevant molecular and cognitive biomarkers that can be used for evaluation of therapeutics across species using assays that are routinely used for human patients.  Therefore, the drugs will be evaluated in humanized mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases and also by using humanized assays, positioning the drugs that pass this screen to be successful for higher model testing.

TRIDENT is committed to the highest standards of animal care in research.

 

Current Models

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Alzheimer's Diesase

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α-Synucleinopathy

Projects

MEET THE TEAM

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DR. TIM BUSSEY


TRIDENT Co-Principal Investigator
and Cognition Biomarker Team Lead

Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology, 

The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry,
Western University


Western Research Chair in
Cognitive Neuroscience

Director, BrainsCAN Rodent Cognition
and Innovation Core


Email: 

tbussey@uwo.ca

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Website:

https://tcnlab.ca/our-team/
 

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DR.   MALLAR   CHAKRAVARTY

TRIDENT Co-Principal Investigator, Data Management & Sharing Core Team Lead, Imaging Biomarker Team Lead

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University

Director, Researcher, and Computational Neuroscientist, Brain Imaging Centre,
Douglas Research Centre

Associate Member, Department of Biomedical Engineering, McGill University

 

Email: 

mallar@cobralab.ca

 

​​Website:
https://www.cobralab.ca/mallar-chakravarty

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DR. RAVI MENON

TRIDENT Principal Investigator
and Imaging Biomarker Team Lead


Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry,
Western University


Canada Research Chair in
Functional and Molecular Imaging

 

Research Scientist, CFMM

Co-Scientific Director of BrainsCAN

​Email: 

rmenon@uwo.ca

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Website:
https://cfmm.uwo.ca/people/core_scientists/ravi_menon.html

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DR. MARCO PRADO


TRIDENT Co-Principal Investigator
and Molecular Biomarker Team Lead

Professor, Department of Physiology and
Pharmacology and Department of Anatomy
& Cell Biology

Scientist, Robarts Research Institute

Canada Research Chair in Neurochemistry
of Dementia

 

Deputy Editor in Chief Journal of Neurochemistry

Email: 

mprado@uwo.ca

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​Website:

https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/physpharm//people/faculty/prado_marco.html

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DR. VANIA PRADO

TRIDENT Co-Principal Investigator
and Mouse Imaging Team Lead


Professor, (cross appointment with Physiology and Pharmacology
and Robarts Research Institute)



​Email: 

vprado@uwo.ca

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Website:
https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/anatomy//people/faculty/faculty_members/prado_vania.html

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DR. LISA SAKSIDA

TRIDENT Co-Principal Investigator and
Imaging Biomarker Team Lead


Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology
The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Translational Cognitive Neuroscienc

Co-Scientific Director, BrainsCAN

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Email: 

lsaksida@uwo.ca

 

​​Website:

https://tcnlab.ca/our-team/

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DR. JOEL WATTS


TRIDENT Co-Principal Investigator
and Mouse Team Lead

Associate Professor,
Department of Biochemistry,
University of Toronto

Principal Investigator,
Tanz Centre for Research in
Neurodegenerative Diseases


Email: 

joel.watts@utoronto.ca

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Website:

https://joelwattslab.org​​
 

Highly Qualified Personnel

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Genki Amano

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Toronto

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Irem Catma

Graduate Student

McGill University

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Czarina Evangelista

Project Manager

Western University

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Kruti Joshi

Graduate Student

Western University

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Surabhi Mehra

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Toronto

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Kate Onuska

Graduate Student

Western University

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Arash Salahinejad

Postdoctoral Associate

Western University

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Nicholas Silver

Graduate Student

University of Toronto

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Latiyah Timothy

Graduate Student

Western University

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Anoosha  Attaran

Postdoctoral Fellow
Western University

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Alex Coto

Research Technician

Western University

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Jue Fan

Research Technician

Western University

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Sam Laxer

Graduate Student

Western University

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Vikram Nathan

Graduate Student

McGill University

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Samina Panjwani

Graduate Student

Western University

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Rodrigo Sandoval

Postdoctoral Fellow

Western University

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Raphaela So

Graduate Student

University of Toronto

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Sara Touj

Postdoctoral Fellow

McGill University

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Alison  Brandt

Graduate Student

McGill University

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Matt  Cowan

Research Technician

Western University

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Chris Fodor

Research Technician

Western University

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Leo  Li

Graduate Student

University of Toronto

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Vlad Novikov

Graduate Student

Western University

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Janice Park

Graduate Student

McGill University

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Lina Sifi

Graduate Student

McGill University

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Erica Stuart

Research Technician

University of Toronto

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Esmin Unaran

Graduate Student

Western University

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Ariel Batallan Burrowes

Research Associate
Western Univeristy

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Amr Eed

Postdoctoral Fellow

Western University

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Daniel Gallino

Research Assistant

McGill University

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Medhinee Malvankar

Graduate Student

McGill University

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Cadence Opaka

Graduate Student

Western University

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David Roper

Research Associate

McGill University

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Caroline Fernandes da Silva

Postdoctoral Fellow

Western University

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Kelly Summers

Research Associate

Western University

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