Courtney Wright, PhD
Courtney is a researcher at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, as part of the Kirik group investigating neurodegeneration related to alpha-synuclein pathology. During her doctoral research, she developed a novel animal model of PD and then worked extensively in multi-modal brain imaging as part of Sydney Microscopy and Microanalysis.
Su-Chun Zhang, PhD
Su-Chun Zhang received his MD (1984) and MS (1989) in China, and PhD (1996) in Canada. Following postdoctoral training, he began his assistant professor in 2001 and is now Steenbock Professor in Behavioral and Neural Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also professor and director of the Signature Program in Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. His group has developed technology to guide human pluripotent stem cells to functionally specialized nerve cell types. He is dissecting mechanisms of and developing therapeutics for neurological conditions like Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Zhang is a founder of the WiCell Institute and BrainXell, Inc.
