SCIENTIFIC ADVISORS

Dr. Charles Morin

Dr. Morin is Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Sleep Disorders Centre at Laval University in Quebec City. He was on the faculty of the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1986 to 1994. Dr. Morin is a leading authority on insomnia treatment. He has been conducting clinical research and treating patients with insomnia for over 20-years. He has published extensively (including four books) and lectured internationally on the topic and his research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. A Diplomate of the American Board of SleepDisorders Medicine, he received the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 1995. He currently holds a Canada Research Chair on Sleep Disorders and is President of the Canadian Sleep Society.

Dr. Oleh Hornykiewicz

Dr. Oleh Hornykiewicz is one of the world’s leading neuroscientists. He was the first to determine that Parkinson’s disease results from too little of one kind of neurotransmitter known as dopamine. His subsequent development of L-dopa for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease revolutionized the treatment of that illness and remains the mainstay of therapy today. When he did not receive the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2000, over 200-leading neurologists world wide signed a letter protesting this decision to the Nobel selection committee.

Dr. Hornykiewicz received his medical training at the University of Vienna in Austria. He has held full professorships concurrently at the University of Toronto in the Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry and in the Department of Biochemical Pharmacology at the University of Vienna. Dr. Hornykiewicz holds a number of prestigious international awards and has served as a scientific advisor on many boards and projects around the world.

Dr. Hornykiewicz is presently Professor Emeritus at both the University of Toronto and the University of Vienna. He continues to work out of the Brain Research Institute at the University of Vienna and is widely acknowledged as the leading authority on neurotransmitter function in diseased and normal brain. He brings a history of success as well as an ability to arrive at simple and elegant solutions to seemingly complex brain diseases.