Dr. Ziv Gan-Or

Associate Professor, The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Department of Human Genetics, McGill University

Dr. Gan-Or is a leading geneticist in the field of Parkinson’s disease and spearheads the world’s largest effort on RBD genomics. He is an expert on GBA1, with >50 publications on GBA1 and its genetics, function, and clinical aspects. He has been working with pharmaceutical companies on GBA1 and its modifiers as therapeutic targets for PD. He also serves on several scientific advisory boards to help facilitate precision medicine in PD treatment. At the Neuro, he is the co-director of the Clinical Research Unit (CRU), the director of the Neurodegenerative Disorders Research Group, and leads the Neurogenomics and Precision Medicine lab.