Quincy Almeida
Wilfrid laurier university, Canada
Biography
Quincy Almeida is the Director of the Sun Life Financial Movement Disorders Research & Rehabilitation Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University. His research has been featured in the Toronto Star, the Globe & Mail, on CBC and CTV national news as well as featured in Maclean’s magazine. He has been funded by NSERC, and multi-million dollar grants from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and CIHR, and has won several awards including the Franklin Henry Young Scientist Award for motor control in Canada, Parkinson’s Society of Canada Young Investigator’s Award, Polanyi Prize for Physiology and Medicine, the Queen’s Elizabeth II Diamond Jubiliee Medal and the Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award from the NASPSPA Organization. He has spoken about his novel approach to understanding Parkinson’s disease across the world including widely across South America, Europe and Australia
Abstract
Abstract : Parkinson’s disease: A systematic evaluation of underlying mechanisms leading to motor symptoms