People
Principle Investigator
Madeleine received her MD from McGill University and completed her Neurology residency at the University of British Columbia. She did post-doctoral training with Daphna Shohamy at Columbia University and fellowship training in Movement Disorders at the Columbia University Medical Center.
Madeleine Sharp, MD
Graduate Students
The Lab
Sophie Sun, Graduate Student
Sophie is interested in the brain-behaviour-mood relationships that affect people with Parkinson's Disease. For her thesis, she is studying how reward learning might act as a behavioural mechanism linking degeneration and mood symptoms.
Yoseph Shechter, MD
Dr. Yoseph Shechter is currently a Fellow in Movement Disorders at McGill University. He holds an MD from Tel-Aviv University and a B.Sc. in Psychology & Biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has experience in data analysis from roles at Biotech companies and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences(ELSC) lab at the Hebrew University.
Trycia Kouchache, PhD Candidate
Trycia’s research focuses on identifying clinical and blood-based markers across Parkinson’s disease stages. In collaboration with the Sharp Lab, she is currently investigating the association between Alzheimer’s disease–related plasma biomarkers and early cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease.
Mutian Feng, Undergraduate Student
Mutian is conducting an independent research project as part of her BSc in Neuroscience, focusing on white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) and their impact on motor function in Parkinson’s disease. In parallel with a graduate student’s project examining cognitive outcomes, she is interested in whether the regional distribution of WMHs is associated with differences in motor symptom severity.
Sanjna Puri, Graduate Student
Sanjna is interested in why people with Parkinson’s disease can look clinically similar yet experience very different cognitive and psychiatric outcomes. Her research focuses on measuring heterogeneity in PD and working to better understand what reflects the disease itself versus host factors like age, sex, and comorbidities.
Masha Verner, Research Assistant
Masha is a Research Assistant contributing to the development of a Parkinson’s disease patient registry and open-access dataset. She holds a B.Sc. in Psychology from Concordia University and an M.Sc. in Dental Sciences from McGill University. Her research background includes projects on substance use and chronic pain, where she developed experience in clinical study coordination and patient-centered data collection.
Research Assistants
Jeannine’s research interests lie in the intersection of cognition and motor control, with a particular interest in cognitive phenotypes associated with Parkinson’s disease. She is interested in how these phenotypes relate to clinical factors and influence disease progression.
Jeannine Bradsby
Web Developers
Nick is a fullstack developer with particular interest in the frontend. He is interested in creating responsive, aesthetic, and intuitive web applications using the latest available technologies.
Nicholas Lee
Alumni
Jeanine Bradsby
Junior specialist, University of California San Fransisco
Eileen Hu
MSc Biotechnology National University of Singapore
Lyla Hawari
Research Assistant
Soraya Lahlou
Post-doctoral fellow at the Centre de Recherche Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM)
Nasri Balit (research assistant)
Medical student at McGill University
Tommy Kim (MSc student)
Medical student at McGill University
Alexander Bailey (MSc student)
MD-PhD student at University of Toronto
Lara Telli (research assistant)
Undergraduate student at Université de Montréal
Samantha Maltezos (psychology honours student)
PhD student in Clinical Neuropsychology at the Université de Montréal
Zhen-Yi Andy Ou (neuroscience honours student)
Medical student at the University of Queensland in Australia
Matt Pilgrim (MSc student)
Psychology PhD student in Clinical Science at the University of Southern California
Leah Suissa-Rocheleau (research assistant)
Law Student at McGill University