SHRF Partners with Parkinson Canada on the 2026 Research Competition

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Parkinson Canada supports, connects, and amplifies the Parkinson’s research ecosystem in Canada through comprehensive partnerships, impactful funding, knowledge translation, and community engagement.

The Parkinson Canada Research Competition improves quality of life for people living with Parkinson’s, care partners, families, and communities through funding innovative research into the causes, progression, and treatment of Parkinson’s.

Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (SHRF) is proud to partner on the Parkinson Canada Research Competition to fund the exceptional Parkinson’s research community. The Parkinson Canada Research Competition includes Pilot Project Grants, New Investigator Awards, Clinical Movement Disorders Fellowships, Clinician Scientist Research Fellowships, Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Graduate Student Awards.

This year, two Saskatchewan researchers achieved funding for their work into the development of new techniques and biomarkers to detect Parkinson’s and testing novel drugs and therapeutics to slow or stop Parkinson’s in its tracks.

Eric Noyes received a SHRF-Parkinson Canada Partnership New Investigator Grant and Bashir Daud Shah received a Clinical Movement Disorders Fellowship.

Funding Recipients:

Dr. Eric Noyes, University of Saskatchewan

Co-funded by Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation and Parkinson Canada

Award/Grant: New Investigator Award, $135,000

Early surveillance of brain connectivity changes in Parkinson’s disease during the conversion of minor hallucinations to psychosis and dementia

Dr. Bashir Daud Shah, University of Saskatchewan

Funded by Parkinson Canada

Award/Grant: Clinical Movement Disorders Fellowship, $75,000

Clinical training at the Saskatchewan Movement Disorders Program